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How to make a festive wreath

Welcome Christmas guests with this festive wreath – we show you how to make it.

Published: Monday, 21 October, 2019 at 3:27 pm

This festive wreath is made with colourful plants or parts of them that should be easy to source from the garden, parks or florists.

We’ve used more traditional plants like fir, holly and crab apples, but more unusual materials like echinops seedheads, sunflower seedheads and hydrangea bracts look great, too.

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Follow these easy steps to create your own festive wreath.

30 minutes

Secure three short sprigs of fir to a wreath base with wire. Repeat by overlapping each bunch, wrapping the wire around the wreath as you go.

Secure the fir sprigs to the base

Attach holly sprigs and larch cones and stems to the wreath using short lengths of wire. Wind wire around the stems of a cluster of crab apples.

Attach the remaining plant material to the wreath

Poke the wire into the back of the wreath and secure in place at the back. Attach a ribbon to the top (where it’ll hang from) and make a bow.

Attach a ribbon and make a bow on the wreath

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