Dried Lavender Wreaths

If you want to make a lasting gift, to present to your father on this father’s day, then a wreath of dried flowers will be perfect. As the dried flowers last for many years so will your expression of love for your father in the form dried floral wreath.

To make this wreath is easy and fun. So if you want to try making it first you will need these following materials:

• A wire wreath frame.
• Ribbons.
• A pair of scissors and garden shears.
• Floral wire and
• Dry flower foliage and a variety of dry flowers.

After getting these materials ready take the following steps:  

•       Gather all your dry flower foliage and trim them all to a size of 6 inches. Here are some suggestions as for the dry foliage that you can use- oak, magnolia, asparagus ferns and cushion bush.

• ·         Next, cut the stems of the dry flowers about 5 inches down its calyx so that you will have a 6-inch dry flowers to work with.

• ·         Then make a bunch of your dry foliage trimmings with the cut ends of the trimmings facing the same direction. Arrange a few of your dry flowers on the top of the dry foliage bunch. Place the bunch on the wire wreath frame.

• ·         If you do not happen to find this wire wreath form, then one own your own using an old wire hanger. Just bend the wire hanger into a circle and you will have your wire wreath frame.

• ·          After placing the bunches of the dry foliage with the dry flowers on the wreath frame. Secure it firmly to the frame using floral wire.

• ·         Next make another bunch of the same kind together with the dry flowers on top and secure it to the wreath frame in the same way as the first. Your second bunch of dry foliage and flowers should slightly overlapping the first one covering its trimmings.

• ·         In this continue wiring the bunches and the flowers one slightly overlapping the other till you complete the full circle of the wreath frame.

·         By the end of this process you will have your dried flower wreath ready.

Finally, you can attach a small bow to the base of the wreath