Tip: Before making wreaths or garlands, set freshly snipped branches in room-temperature water for a few hours. Doing this will keep your creations fresher for longer.
Step 1: Start creating your wreath by collecting an assortment of boughs of greenery and clipping them into 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 inch) long pieces. Here, we used a combination of spruce and cedar.
Step 2: Next, layer the branches together and pinch the bottom so that the greenery fans out and the stems can be wrapped together with wire or twine. Be sure to leave a “tail” of extra wire or twine (about 30 cm/12 inches) on the bough for attaching later. Continue until the bunch is full.
Step 3: Once you have created 10 to 12 bunches, snip off a y long stems on the end. Using a wire clothes hanger formed into a circle (or a grapevine wreath form) as your base, place the fir t evergreen bouquet bundle on top and secure it with wire or twine. Gather the second bundle of foliage and overlap the stems on the first bunch.
Wire it around the wreath base and continue this process, adding to the wreath until it is full and you don’t see any of the bottom twiggy bits until the bunch is full.
Step 4: Add cones and berries.
Step 5: Make sure everything is wired in securely and hang.
FRESH GREENS THAT SMELL AMAZING: To bring in invigorating natural scents, choose freshly cut cedar, white pine, balsam fir or blue spruce.
