We are stuck at home this Easter with covid and I need something to lift my mood…this is my answer!

What do you need

-a willow ring (I got my from my local florist for £8) or make one with some bendy twigs like fresh willow

-florist wire

-wire cutters

-secetares (or if not old scissors )

-foliage I got some bits of blossom and rosemary from the garden and used shop brought carnations and gypsophila

-string

-moss (I scraped mine of my moss lawn 🤣)

-water sprayer

If you don’t have any of these bits don’t let it stop you!

Think creatively if you don’t have a willow wreath you could use a redundant christmas wreath from last year and give it a good soak, or you could forage some bendy twigs and make a rustic style ring.

Let’s begin…

First I tied 4 pieces of strong string to each quarter of the wreath. The string was about 3mt long and a doubled it up to make it 1.5mt and stronger.

Eventually I will tie these four strands together and use that knot to tie to the hook in my ceiling.

For arranging the foliage I used a method similar to my christmas wreath making which your can click to watch on IGTV.

Except I didn’t wrap my wreath with moss I just tied a little bit of moss around the base of each bunch of stems. I’m keen to make this wreath last the whole weekend so using pre soaked moss and spraying it daily hopefully it will!

Sorry awkward photo! But your can see to economise I just arranged foliage around the side of the wreath. I didn’t wrap the foliage around both sides of the wreath like you would a door wreath as this wreath is being hung you won’t see it from the top.

Next I suspend my wreath temporarily so I can add all the flowers that suspend from the wreath.

I have chosen flowers and foliage that won’t wilt as the pieces hanging down don’t have damp moss around them. I went for gypsophila and carnations as they can handle get slightly dry unlike blossom which would wilt and look unattractive.

I wrapped florist wire around a piece of foliage (using the same method you used for attaching pine cones on the IGTV tutorial mentioned above) then attached the foliage to either the inside or outside of the wreath.

Attach hanging branches all the way along the wreath and the viola it’s complete!