The Essential Guide to Wreath Making with The Garden Gate Flower
As we put the garden to bed and Christmas approaches the daylight hours are at their shortest. It is at this time of year that I find candlelight and living elements more important to me than almost any other season.
Whilst we may have to look a little closer for beautiful elements from the garden, creating seasonal displays does not have to be a daunting affair.
One of the best ways to welcome in the festive season is adorning you front door with a beautiful Christmas wreath.
Essential Guide to Wreath Making
I like to create my wreaths using foraged foliage working with textures that create a display with more movement.
When collecting foliage try to keep the collection to perhaps three varieties. Bay, ivy and pine work really well together. Keep your eyes peeled on woodland walks for fallen branches to add to your arrangement, I always love a forage after a storm has blown in!
If you own a beech hedge cut a few hero stems to decorate and incorporate into the design. Use a mix of length in foliage to create a more organic shape and work in bunches wiring into a moss base.
The moss will keep your wreath looking fresher for longer and at the end of the year can be taken apart and reused next Christmas.
For the decorative elements I still like to keep mine very natural, pinecones, hydrangea heads, berries if you can get them before the bird and of course ribbons. This element just oozes Christmas for me. I like to add multiples in tonal colours but this year I’m craving more red again, definitely of the burgundy palette though.
Photographer: Debs Alexander
Location: Boconnoc
Design: The Garden Gate Flower Company
