To Say Again a Wreath or String of Flowers or Other Material

Making your ain homemade Christmas decorations can exist hugely rewarding, and your garden has a wealth of materials you tin can employ to create them. We have a host of beautiful handmade Christmas wreath ideas, all created from natural materials you can find in your garden, such as plants, leaves, cones and seedheads.

Not just is making your own Christmas wreath from scratch a fun job for you, it'due south also excellent for the surround. Below nosotros accept pace by step inspiration on how to brand several different types of Christmas wreath, including a large Christmas wreath, a Christmas wreath using succulents, and a Christmas wreath using natural materials including ivy, seedheads, twigs, dried flowers, plus many more.

Whether you're looking for a Christmas wreath for a large door, or one for a pocket-sized door, there are plenty of options here, all of which are made out of simple natural materials that you can find in your own garden and designed by floral experts include Kristy Ramage and Charlie Ryrie.

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How to make a huge Christmas wreath

Past Charlie Ryrie

Materials and tools needed for your huge Christmas wreath

• Snips
• Natural twine
• 30 willow rods 1.2-1.5m long, freshly picked from hedgerow or garden, or soaked in h2o for 24 hours to brand them pliable
• Large parcel of greenery, such as a selection of Leyland cyprus (10 Cupressocyparis leylandii), juniper (Juniperus communis), Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), bay (Laurus nobilis) and cider gum (Eucalyptus gunnii)
• ten-xx sprigs of curly willow (Salix x sepulcralis 'Erythroflexuosa') or xanthous dogwood (Cornus sericea 'Flaviramea')
• Length of old man'south beard (Clematis vitalba)

To make

1. This giant, dark-green Christmas wreath looks particularly inviting on a barn door but could be used to decorate any blank external wall. Its base is also a willow hoop, this time made on the footing.
2. Cut ten pieces of willow to make pegs about 20cm long, with one pointed end.
3. For a 1m-diameter wreath, necktie a 50cm length of string on to i peg, and place it in the ground. This will be the eye of your Christmas wreath circle.
4. Stretch out the string and place the starting time peg at the point where the string ends, then place the other eight pegs at regular intervals around the key peg, using cord to measure their positions.
5. Weave lengths of willow betwixt the pegs, pressing them firmly together and starting each new length by tucking the ends in but before a peg. You don't need a single willow rod for each layer of the circle, but keep tucking the ends in with each new length.
6. After five or vi layers, pull the hoop upwards from the pegs, leaving them in the ground.
7. Twist more lengths of willow over and under the hoop to make it secure. Weave whatsoever ends into the hoop.
8. Then decorate your wild hoop by tucking and poking lengths of greenery into the woven willow at regular intervals, building it upwards until you are satisfied with the distribution and texture.

The simply dominion is to add together all the green material in the same direction. You can use pieces of twine to secure the greenery, just the more materials you add together, the less likely y'all are to need extra ties and the Christmas wreath can exist self-supporting. The longer you cutting your greenery, the looser the wreath volition be. If you want it tighter, but use shorter pieces.

How to make your own bird's nest Christmas wreath

By Charlie Ryrie

Materials and tools to make your Christmas wreath

• Natural twine
• viii plain or coloured willow rods i.2-1.5m long, freshly picked from hedgerow or garden, or soaked in water for 24 hours to make them pliable for the basis of the Christmas wreath
• 3-5 larch (Larix decidua) stems at to the lowest degree 60cm, with cones
• 3-5 alder (Alnus glutinosa) stems at least 60cm, with cones and catkins
• Length of old homo's bristles (Clematis vitalba)
• 5 x 30-50cm pieces of curly willow (Salix ten sepulcralis 'Erythroflexuosa') or yellow dogwood (Cornus sericea 'Flaviramea')
• Ribbon or complect to finish to hang upward your wreath on the door

To brand

The willow hoop footing of the Christmas wreath

1. A willow hoop forms the base of operations of this Christmas wreath. The willow must be pliable then apply freshly cut stems or soak dry willow in water for a twenty-four hour period to soften it. If the willow is besides dry, it will snap when you try to bend it. For a hoop that will brand a wreath 20-30cm in diameter, start with a willow rod at least 1.3m long and twist it into a circle, starting from the thicker end.
2. When you accept the size you want, weave the residuum of the rod in and out around the circle to concord the shape.
3. Take a second length of willow and constrict the thick end into your Christmas wreath frame, about 10cm on from the thicker cease of the first piece. This will agree it in place while you wrap the slice around the circumvolve of your wreath.
4. Do this with six to eight rods until the hoop feels rigid. Finish off by tying the thinnest stop around the hoop. Thick ends will stick out from the circle at diverse points; cut them off with sharp snips and the hoop will maintain its shape.

The bird'south nest Christmas wreath look

Tuck lengths of alder in and out round the hoop, and then do the aforementioned with the larch. Aim for a pleasing shape; you should be able to maintain the circumvolve for the wreath and keep everything in place by winding the stems circular the willow hoop, but yous may prefer to necktie the alder and larch to the willow with a few short lengths of twine. Next, place a few lengths of old man's bristles around the twiggy wreath, and so poke curly willow stems through the other materials and wrap them round, leaving the ends flight free.

I use woollen complect for the hanging loop, merely for extra mental attitude attempt sumptuous velvet or any luxurious trimming and to finish off a glorious Christmas wreath.

How to make a Christmas wreath using succulents

Past Kristy Ramage

Bang on trend and easily obtainable, a Christmas wreath made with the rich green shades of succulent plants, moss and foraged leaves will celebrate the festive flavour with natural style. Beneath you'll find a step-by-step guide and a list of materials needed to create the look.

Materials for your Christmas wreath

• 30cm wire wreath base of operations
• 1m x 25cm chicken wire
• moss
• superlative soil
• blackberry leaves (especially the purple tinged ones)
• sage leaves
• Vinca major leaves
• sprigs of rosemary
• Echeveria elegans rosettes
• Sempervivum 'Rubin' rosettes
• florist's scissors or secateurs
• 2 x 1.8m lengths tarred twine
• florist's wire, stub wire (24 guess) cut to 7cm
• 26 x 20cm lengths yew, rosemary, ivy berries and leaves
• 60cm 10 9mm ribbon
• 40cm x 15mm ribbon
• 30cm length shredded raffia

How to make

1. To make the Christmas wreath employ the chicken wire to form a flat-backed doughnut shape effectually the wire base. Secure with stub wire. Tightly stuff the cavity with moss, advisedly packing soil in beneath the top layer of moss, to requite the Echeveria andSempervivum rosettes something to grow into.
2. Cutting the individual rosettes off the succulent plants, leaving as long a stem every bit possible. Arrange these around the wreath and tuck each stem firmly into the layer of soil and moss. Utilise a 7cm length of stub wire, bent in half, to pivot effectually each stem and secure to the base.
3. Fill in the gaps with sprigs of blackberry, sage, rosemary andVinca major leaves, pushing the foliage stalks into the wreath and securing with florist's wire as necessary.
4. For the Christmas wreath, prepare approx 26 bunches of yew, made up of two to 3 20cm lengths. Current of air florist's wire in a spiral down the length of each one.8m tarred twine. Wire the bunches along the prepared twine (in one direction), overlapping them to avoid gaps. Wire together five longer bunches of yew, rosemary and ivy berries to grade a fan shape. Gear up to the door at the centre of the two long garlands, add ribbon and raffia then tweak the wired cord into position.
5. Spray Christmas wreath with water when dry.

How to make a Christmas wreath using seedheads

Materials

• 25cm wire wreath base
• 20cm ten 90cm chicken wire
• moss
• 120 Clematis vitalba (old man's beard) seedheads
• 22 ivy flowers
• 12 mistletoe berry clusters
• 1.2m ribbon

To make

1. To make the Christmas wreath apply the chicken wire to form a apartment-backed doughnut shape around the wire base. Secure with stub wire.
2. Tightly stuff the cavity with moss.
3. Cut clematis seedheads off the principal stem, leaving stalks as long as possible.
4. Push button stalks into the moss as densely as possible. Add together ivy flowers and mistletoe berries and tie a ribbon on the metal loop at the top.

How to make a uncomplicated Christmas wreath using berried ivy

Past Kristy Ramage

Materials

• Wire Christmas wreath frame (this i is 33cm in diameter) or galvanised wire to make your own.
• Reel of soft wire
• Lengths (xx-30cm) of ivy leaves and berries
• Ribbon for hanging

To brand

Wrap the soft wire around the Christmas wreath frame and thread the stems of the ivy pieces into the wire, layering the pieces on summit of one another and moving around the circle. Put plenty on – it should experience abundant – and secure with extra wire if needed. The berries should naturally disperse around the wreath, and you can e'er add more than by wiring the stem of individual berry bunches and threading them in betwixt the leaves.

Flowering (and therefore berried) branches of ivy are not lobed and trailing, but self-supporting and robust, normally plant growing in the dominicus. So it's strong, and of class ivy brings good luck and keeps the devil out. This makes it just correct to hang on the front door.

How to make an artichoke wreath

A Christmas wreath made with stale artichoke heads and berries.

Materials for the artichoke wreath

• 30cm wire wreath base
• 12-xv stale artichoke heads
• 2-3 sprigs of stale Ruscus aculeatus (butcher's broom)
• 20-xxx Iris foetidissima berries
• 18cm stub wire (22 judge)

To make the artichoke wreath

Arrange the dried artichokes in size order and attach (starting with the largest at the bottom) to the wreath base with stub wire.

Twist wire around a pair of dried butcher's broom leaves, leaving a tip of wire betwixt the leaves to pierce an iris berry, and a long length of wire at the other terminate.

Utilise this to attach the foliage and berry to the wreath in betwixt the artichoke heads.

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