The World of Cut Flowers

Wreaths look good any time of the year, no matter where you hang them. Dried flower wreaths are a great idea because they remain unchanged for years together and continue to add elegance and warmth to your rooms. Here you will learn how to make a dried flower wreath.

Before you begin make sure you have a collection of garden trimmings that have already been dried. Try oak, magnolia, bay laurel, asparagus fern and cushion bush. Cut to have six inch stems on your flowers. Good picks are lavender, sea foam statice, hydrangea and straw flowers.

You can either use a wire wreath frame or unbend a coat hanger to make a circle. Place a #24 floral wire (paddle wire) along the wire frame. Bundle several stems of the six-inch plant material and attach them on the wire frame with the cut ends facing the same direction. Put a few dried flowers on top of the bundle and place the whole bundle on the paddle wire on the wire frame.

Hold the bundle there and use the paddle wire to wrap around the bundle and the frame twice and then pull it tight to secure it. Do not snip the wire as you still will have to put the other bundles.

 Use another bundle to overlap the cut ends of the previous bundle and make sure that its stems face the same direction too. Secure it the same way as the first. Continue with other bunches till the whole frame is covered.  

Tuck the last bunch under the first one. Snip the extra wire after you are done. You can tie a pretty bow where you began and ended the bundles on the frame. Once it is all done, mist some hair spray on it to keep the bunches and flowers in place.