This unusual Christmas wreath should encourage you to get outside and forage. Experiment with seedheads, fir cones, hips and berries, and garnish with dried flowerheads. Mistletoe can be found growing wild, but is sold at florists and markets during the Christmas season.
Nature can provide lots of colour at this time of year, but reach for the spray can for a helping hand – we used a blue acrylic paint.
More Christmas makes:
Christmas wreath from miscanthus
Making a rustic Christmas wreath (video)
Making a traditional Christmas wreath (video)
Here’s how to make this pretty wreath.
You Will Need
Fine florists' wire
Vine stems or other woody stems
Lichen-covered twigs
Rosehips, mistletoe, catkins
Variegated ivy
Dried eryngium flowerheads
Fir cones and seedheads
Allium and teasel seedheads (we sprayed ours blue using an acrylic craft paint)
Total time:
Step 1
Soak the woody stems in water beforehand – this will make them easier to bend without splitting. Form each stem into a hoop, then wire together.
Step 2
Add your foraged garden finds, mixing foliage, berries and seedheads. Thread them through the twigs and attach each one securely with florists’ wire. Aim to allow the natural structure of the wreath to show through.
