Craft homemade hanging wreaths using foliage from the garden

Winter is the season that beckons us to cosy up indoors, sip on hot chocolate and embrace our crafty side. One delightful way to infuse your home with festive charm is by creating your own hanging wreath. Creating a homemade wreath is a fun and easy way to make a bespoke decoration and get into the Christmas spirit… or simply make a budget-friendly and thoughtful present for family and friends. It’s easy to make a homemade autumn or Christmas-inspired wreath, and all you need are some good-quality cutting tools, a wreath ring and access to the garden or outdoors!

Gather foliage and evergreens

Venture into your garden or the nearby outdoors to find the perfect elements for the base of the wreath. Look for evergreen foliage like ivy, eucalyptus, or myrtle, which adds a touch of timeless elegance. Alternatively, embrace a rustic feel with branches from hazel, dogwood, or willow. Ensure that the stems possess some flexibility, allowing you to effortlessly mould them into the circular wreath design. When working with thicker stems, like those of eucalyptus, rely on the Wilkinson Sword Ultralight Bypass Pruners, capable of cutting through stems up to 15mm in diameter. Trim the stems of your greenery to approximately 10cm in length and bundle them into 20 groups, each containing 5 different sprigs.

Add warming fragrance

Elevate your wreath with a festive aroma by incorporating fresh herbs or scented foliage. Rosemary, fir, or lavender can add a delightful fragrance to your creation. For these delicate cuttings, use the lightweight and compact deadheading snips. Equipped with a stainless-steel blade, these snips provide precise, clean cuts that minimise damage to nearby stems and leaves, keeping the rest of the plant healthy.

Compose the wreath

Once all the greenery has been collected, it's time to craft the wreath. Arrange the natural elements around a wreath ring, focusing on creating a harmonious blend of depths, textures, and colours. Infuse additional vibrancy into the green foliage with bright-hued features like berries, crab apples, or rosehips. For an extra touch of winter charm, consider incorporating pinecones, cinnamon sticks, small baubles, or dried flowers. A pruning knife proves invaluable at this stage, helping you refine edges and foliage to achieve the perfect circular shape.

As the winter chill settles in, enjoy the rewards of crafting your own handmade decorations and share the festive spirit with friends and family with a gifted homemade wreath. Visit https://wilkinsonsword-tools.co.uk/ to explore our range of high-quality cutting tools designed to make your crafting journey even more enjoyable.

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Ultralight Bypass pruners – RRP £14.99

Deadheading snips – RRP £6.99

Folding pruning knife – RRP £12.99

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Editors notes

Wilkinson Sword's mission is to provide gardening tools of premium quality and performance that help make gardening easier and more enjoyable! Reflecting 100 years of cutting excellence, the gardening tools collection comprises highly engineered quality products, including pruners, shears, loppers, stainless steel garden tools as well as a range of axes and multi-tools. Every product in the range is put through rigorous quality tests to ensure the high-quality design, durability and strength expected from this trusted brand. Every product comes with the reassuring stamp of a 10-year guarantee.