How to make a Christmas Wreath

Make a festive wreath for your door in 4 easy steps.

What you need:

1. a few wisteria sticks
2. string 
3. some bunches of herbs (thyme, rosemary, lavender, bay)
4. garden twine / wire
5. pine cones
6. berries (I used some plastic ones, but you could use some holly with berries)

I found everything I needed to make this in the garden, apart from the red berries which I had rescued from an old Christmas wreath years ago!  If you have holly with berries this could be used.

Step 1.

Start to weave the wisteria sticks together in a circle, twisting them together and tying with string where necessary.

Wisteria sticks

Start to weave them together and tie with string

Weave into a circle

Eventually you will have woven all the sticks in together.

All sticks woven together

Step 2:

Now take sprigs of the herbs, I used thyme, rosemary and lavender at first, then finished off with bay leaves. Just poke these into the twisted wisteria sticks so they look good and cover any of the string.

Sprigs of Rosemary and Thyme

Lavender and Rosemary

Add Bay leaves, Pine Cones and some Berries

Step 3:

If you have found some pine cones, fasten these to the wreath with some wire, and do the same with any colourful berries you can find.  Chinese lanterns would look good, adding a nice touch of orange. I also added a dried fern leaf.

Finished wreath

Step 4:

Finally tie some string around the finished wreath and hang it on your door.

Very festive!

Christmas wreath