Winter Container

I thought that this would be a good way to talk about making a new arrangement.

This is an easy way to create an arrangement of cut greens around the rim of a container and doing this I can start with a standard evergreen  wreath and add all of my other ornaments, tinsels, for Christmas, Valentine's hearts for Valentine's Day  bunnies and eggs for Easter and anything else I will want to add according to whatever season or holiday it is.



First of all, choose a wreath that is about the same size as the rim of the container, but allow about an inch of greenery to extend beyond the rim. Then cut a slit in the wreath so I can easily, slide over the base of the planting. I can use a pair of prunes to cut the greenery and next I can use some wire cutters to cut the wreath frame.

Put the wreath around the base of the planting and then I will run my hands around the wreath, pulling the greenery upward. I need to use the wreath as a base, like a oasis foam in a flower arrangement. I will take my cut mixed greens  and my other materials and stick them into the wreath and this will make the base bigger with the  planting with additional textures and colors.

I can always add some more trailing elements like eucalyptus and incense cedar. I can place them underneath my wreath frame. To make it  not look like it is a dangling afterthought, I can add more of the eucalyptus or cedar.

Some of the cut greens that I can get for my wreaths are, Port Or ford cedar, incense cedar, white pine, piers, juniper and shore pine.

Summary

This is a way that I can decorate for the holidays in a new way.


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