These DIY Pothos wreath ideas offer an artful way to decorate your home for the festive season with a nature’s touch!
22.11.2023 - 05:03 / gardeningknowhow.com
There are so many beautiful DIY winter wreath ideas that you can make using natural materials. Collect foliage, flowers, berries, fruits, and other interesting items from your garden – or forage for them on seasonal walks.
Simple winter wreaths for the front door can make an impact throughout the coldest months of the year, or you could go all out and make a DIY natural holiday wreath to enjoy over Christmas and New Year.
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In these projects we have given you guidance for making your own wreath from scratch, but alternatively you can skip making the base and add to a plain wreath with plants from your yard.
Some of the most stunning DIY winter wreath ideas use just one color set against a rustic backdrop. In this case, white woodland hellebores and pussy willow are used to adorn a stick wreath. A few strands of foliage provide just enough pop of green.
To recreate the idea, you will need to first make a stick wreath. First, collect sticks from the yard, either ones that are fallen, or from trees or shrubs that need cutting back.
Cut the sticks fairly short with pruning shears – in mixed sizes between 3-6″ – and gather randomly together into little bunches. Hold them in place with florist’s wire, then attach to a wire wreath hoop – which will provide a base for structure. Move around the wreath in a clockwise fashion, working with the shape of the sticks.
Once you have your base, weave in stems of pussy willow catkins, or strands of white berries, and a few sprigs of foliage. Finish by attaching your hellebore flowers – thread the stems through the base, then fix with floral wire if needed.
This is one of the easiest yet most delightful DIY winter
These DIY Pothos wreath ideas offer an artful way to decorate your home for the festive season with a nature’s touch!
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Few plants generate more revulsion in the garden than junipers. The mere suggestion of planting one often musters a similar reaction to that of saying a dirty word. Maybe we’ve grown weary of their use as evergreen blobs in foundation plantings. Perhaps the thought of meticulously shearing them into the perfect shape sounds daunting (see pruning tips). It could be an early memory of an itchy rash from an up-close encounter with a juniper’s prickly branches. Or it could be boredom with the sea of creeping blue rug junipers (Juniperus horizontalis ‘Wiltonii’, Zones 3–9) planted in every big-box-store parking lot. Although junipers are a midcentury-modern garden staple, generations of gardeners have since decided they have had enough of these controversial conifers. While it’s easy to dismiss them for their deeply ingrained negative traits, junipers have many merits that make them worth reconsideration.
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December is around the corner, which means it’s time for holiday decorating. And today Cherry Ong is sharing some of her incredible holiday wreath creations. She combines basic wreaths with materials gathered from her garden and purchased to make these marvelous custom creations. If you want to try your hand at making your own wreaths with materials from your garden, you can get your inspiration here, and learn the technique in this video: Make a Holiday Wreath.
While there are lots of shrubs that will do perfectly fine over the winter, sometimes they need a little help to make it through. And that may not be just as a result of cold temperatures. Hungry wildlife could be after some of those tender branches, too. My cedar hedges in the backyard are consistently turned into lollipops because the deer enjoy nibbling the lower branches if they pass through our yard. Winter shrub covers are a great way to protect vulnerable bushes. In this article, I’m going to share tips on choosing winter covers, and how to safely wrap your shrubs.
Mushrooms in the garden can be an unsettling sight, indicating changes in the soil and in growing conditions generally. While growing mushrooms is becoming more popular as a home interest, fungi can be unpleasant in gardens when they arrive out of nowhere. These unplanned garden guests can also be toxic, so you’ll want to remove them if you have curious children or pets.
Most ornamental grasses will stay intact through the latter part of the year, providing useful colour and structure in the autumn, when herbaceous plants are dying back. Some are particularly vibrant, picking up on the colours of the trees to echo their shades of russet and yellow, but with lower, softer silhouettes and lots of movement. Using them is easy. Weave them into a herbaceous border, or create more impact in larger gardens by repeat planting, as Piet Oudolf did at Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire, with his sinuous banks of Molinia caerulea subsp. caerulea 'Poul Petersen'. Some grasses are deciduous while others are evergreen. It is the deciduous grasses that can dramatically change colour during the autumn.
These DIY Indoor Plant Wreath Ideas are perfect for decking up your home! You don’t need to be a pro crafter – just grab some stuff and work to create beautiful wreaths with these DIYs.