
How to make a cool-themed Christmas wreath
Published: Thursday, 14 November 2024 at 11:30 am
Dreaming of a white Christmas? Make your own with this chic wreath using foraged materials.
This silvery white wreath combines silvery green leaves and stems, with white flowers and berries, to give your front door a magical, ethereal feel. Forage in your garden or on country walks for as many of the above natural ingredients as possible, but if you can't find them all then be creative with what you can find.
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You Will Need
- White heather flowering stems
- Ash twigs
- Eucalyptus stenms
- Birch (Betula) bark
- Cushion bush (Calocephalus brownii) stems
- Prickly heath (Gaulteria mucronata) stems with berries
- Old man's beard (Clematis vitalba) seedheads
- Silver bush (Convolvulus cneorum) stems
- Mistletoe stems with berries
- Oak twigs
- Pittosporum stems
- Small can of hairpray
- Flat wire wreath frame (30cm diameter)
- Floristry wire or string
- Florist 'stub wires'
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Spray hairspray on the old man's beard seedheads to stop them dropping. Wire spiral strips of birch bark to the wreath base. Twist a loop to the top of the frame to hang it up.
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