Wreath Making with Cherry

Creating holiday decor from the garden

Decemberis around the quoin , which means it ’s sentence forholiday grace . And today Cherry Ong is sharing some of her incredibleholiday wreathcreations . She combines canonic wreaths with materials gathered from her garden and purchased to make these marvelous custom instauration . If you want to try your script at making your own wreath with materials from your garden , you’re able to get your inspiration here , and learn the proficiency in this video : Make a Holiday Wreath .

A magnolia(Magnoliagrandiflora , Zones 7–10 ) and snowberry(Symphoricarposalbus , zona 3–7 ) coronal . Amazingly the snowberry lasted through and beyond the season .

Ingredients : Fraser fir chaplet , magnolia leaves , snowberry clusters , seeded eucalyptus tree , pine branches , white branches , and an Malus pumila - greenish velvet palm

A wreath with lovesome tone . Magnolia leaves conduct the people of color option for this chaplet . I made the dry orangish piece by broil them for 8 to 10 hours in a 200 ° F oven .

Ingredients : Fraser true fir chaplet , goldIlexberries , spruce with pine cones ( foraged after a windstorm ) , and dried orangish slice

A juniper Chuck Berry wreath decked with more berries .

Ingredients : Juniper berry wreath base , more juniperberries , beautyberry ( Callicarpa ) from the garden , foraged privet ( Ligustrum ) Charles Edward Berry , sown eucalyptus , silver medal bells eucalyptus , white branches

This year ’s front - door chaplet screams of warm colors with foragedPyracanthaberries andThuja‘Forever Goldie ’ from the garden , seeded eucalyptus , eucalyptus tree , grevillea , rise hips , andCornus‘Arctic Fire ’ branches on a Fraser fir tree wreath base .

Another red-faced coronal , this time featuringHypericumberries . This is one of the larger wreaths , and the base is made from discarded Christmas tree arm . I gave this to my godmother and her kinfolk .

fixings : Mixed fir wreath base , magnolia branches , redHypericumberries with the leaf transfer , foraged Norway spruce pinecones , seeded eucalyptus

Awoodland - inspired wreath with foraged conk mushrooms , variegatedSkimmia japonica‘Magic Marlot ’ from the garden , save lichen and moss branches , and entrepot - buy preserved mushrooms ( they were sold as vase makeweight ) . I thought sumac flowers would ’ve made a perfect luxe addition to this wreath , but I did n’t find any . Maybe next time ?

I want to create a natural wreath that did n’t shed or deteriorate indoors . I foraged pinecone over the year ; some were bleached and some natural colored person . I covered a cardboard lei form with rude - colored reindeer moss before attaching different - size pinecones and added a satin decoration .

Finally , here are some simple creations made from leftovers and tardy additions .

I fuck them at thegarden entrancesand logic gate .

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