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Harvesting Flowers to Make Into a Dried Flower Wreath! ✂️

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01:34 Hey guys, how's it going? So today we're going to be working with some beautiful
01:39 flowers, most of which came out of the cut flower garden and a couple from the
01:43 flower beds. Look at this lineup. Oh, now I'm going to run through their variety
01:49 names here in a second, but the one thing that all of these have in common, the one
01:53 trait, is that they all dry beautifully. They will maintain their shape, most of
01:59 their color, so the project that we do today will look like this, hopefully, for a
02:05 long time. Just so vibrant and gorgeous. You know, Erin, the kids and I just got
02:09 back from our first family vacation. We went with my parents to the Oregon coast
02:13 and it was just, it was so nice. We were just there for a couple of days, it was
02:17 over Labor Day weekend, but it was enough to, I mean, I just felt so relaxed and
02:22 rejuvenated and so excited to get back in the garden once we got home and kind of
02:27 started on some fall projects. So I'm not quite in like the pumpkin level of fall
02:30 projects. I love seeing it though. Like if you're there, it's fun to see it and I
02:34 just, I love the feel that that brings, but there's so much abundance still coming
02:38 out of the garden. So many vegetables to harvest, so many flowers still looking
02:42 beautiful that I feel like putting together some like late summer, early fall
02:47 sort of floral things is, that's kind of where I'm at. So today we're going to be
02:51 using some of those flowers to put together a wreath for our back kitchen door.
02:55 I have a 16 inch wreath form here, just a wire wreath form, and then this is 24
03:01 gauge floral wire. So that's all we need other than our clippers and the flowers.
03:06 We've put together lots of wreaths for you in the past, but basically you just
03:09 make little bundles of flowers and lash them to the wreath form and we'll show
03:13 you that process here in just a second. But let me run through the varieties
03:17 before we get into the actual project. We have a nice weeping willow. I parked it
03:21 underneath the willow tree because it was the only shady spot at the moment when I
03:25 came over here. First off, we've got smokebush. This is from Winecraft Black.
03:29 This just adds a super beautiful kind of purply red color, but also that gorgeous
03:34 texture, that fluffy texture. We've got back in black sedum. Now this one is kind
03:40 of in bud and just starting to open bloom stage right there. This one will brown
03:45 just a little bit more as it dries, but not much. It's such a dark color that you
03:49 don't even really notice that. We've got straw flowers, which these will maintain
03:54 the brightest color of all. Hear this? They're already dry on the plant and they
04:00 will just look like this until the end. Hey Russell. Hey bud. We've got several
04:09 colors of status right here, which I love to have, especially in wreath situations
04:14 because they're a lot bulkier. You can get just one or two branches and they'll
04:19 add a tremendous amount of bulk to it. This is called Forever Silver. Then we've
04:24 got an apricot, a purple, and a yellow right here. We've got chocolate flower.
04:29 These will turn a little bit more golden color. The chocolate flower bloom is
04:33 actually yellow. The petals hold on right here and they come out from the center.
04:39 This is the thing that backs the petals. Once those yellow petals dry up and fall
04:43 off, you're left with this gorgeous little green accent. It looks like a flower in
04:47 and of itself and I love that. Down here we've got a couple varieties of
04:50 Gomphrena. This is the orange and then we've got white. These also will dry
04:56 beautifully with the nice color. We've got the Sunball Crespidia. These are such
05:00 a funny looking flower. Also called the drumstick flower, but these maintain
05:05 color really nicely. We've got Echinacea here, which I'm going to be tearing the
05:09 petals off of. I mostly got blooms that were kind of aged. They kind of look like
05:15 this a little bit. They were on their way out anyway. These will have the beautiful
05:21 orange seed heads right here. I love that. We've got Sweet Romance Lavender.
05:25 Can't leave lavender out of a wreath like this. Sunday Wine Red Celosia, which
05:30 these have nice kind of stiffer blooms right here. A lot of these to condition
05:35 and prep them. You could cut them, put them in just a little bit of water, let
05:39 them drink up the water a little bit and then slowly start to dry out. That's
05:43 probably the safest way. But the one benefit of cutting and doing your craft
05:47 right away, especially if it's a wreath, is that you still have flexibility in the
05:50 branches. You're not dealing with dry branches, which are just so much harder to
05:54 manipulate and get them shaped the way you want. So in this case, since I'm not
05:58 really conditioning my blooms, I might deal with a little bit of drooping. Maybe
06:02 on the Celosia. I'm guessing that's pretty much the only one I'm thinking might do
06:07 that. But we'll see. Most of the time we have pretty good luck with it. We've got
06:11 the Limon Talinum. These are so cool. Look at these branches right here. Started
06:16 these from seed. Didn't have the best of luck getting them started. Like less than
06:20 half of them came up, but they are so robust in the flower garden. And they
06:24 produce these stems that have these little itty bitty balls on the end. And
06:28 they have that nice red color. We've got another Celosia called Crystal Beauty.
06:33 This one will hold a little bit better than this one. If this one wants to droop,
06:36 you'll be able to tell on the ends. But they've been cut for a couple hours
06:40 sitting back here in the back of the gator. And it's not hot, but it's not cool
06:45 either. So this one, just because of the rigidity of the, is that a word? Rigidity?
06:50 The toughness of the bloom structure, they will maintain a little bit easier.
06:54 We've got Quickfire Fab Hydrangeas, which one way you can do this. Now I think
06:59 that these are far enough along in their bloom stage that they will maintain and
07:04 they will not wilt. But if you pick hydrangeas too early when the petals
07:07 haven't kind of stiffened up, you'll kind of know. They get a little bit thicker
07:10 feeling, a little bit more leathery. And they start to turn color a lot of times
07:14 after you pick them at that stage they'll maintain. But most of the time what you
07:17 want to do is cut your hydrangeas, put them in just a little itty bitty bit of
07:21 water in the bottom of a vase, let them soak it up and then they'll dry really
07:24 nicely in a vase. And you can do that at pretty much any stage of their bloom.
07:28 So if you want to dry them when they're a little bit more white earlier on in the
07:31 season, that's the way I would do it. This is another way you can do it, which I
07:34 have done several times in the past. You can use these little water picks right
07:38 here. You cut the stem, put it down in the water pick, they'll soak up the water.
07:42 You can easily hide this in a bundle. So you're actually watering your hydrangeas
07:46 inside the wreath. So I think I'll probably do that just to be safe. Then
07:51 we've got Autumn Joy Sedum right here. Again, will turn a little bit darker in
07:55 color but adds a nice bulk. And then we've got the Steel Blue Orangium, which
08:00 oh my goodness, the pollinators. This is probably a favorite of the pollinators
08:04 out in the garden. Russell. But it's got the beautiful blue. So we just have an
08:09 array of colors. This is just going to be a really fun wreath. What are you doing
08:13 there with your paw? What are you doing? Hey. So I'm going to back this gator up
08:18 to my table over here and just get started. We'll do the first couple of
08:21 bundles a little bit slower and then we'll probably speed the process up. But
08:25 I'm excited to see how this comes out. I feel like it's been a while since, I mean
08:28 I did the wheat wreath, but that's uniform. That's really easy. This one will
08:32 be a little bit more, I'm hoping, fluffy and a little bit more wild and colorful
08:36 in the end.
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09:58 Oh my gosh you guys, the wreath turned out so pretty. I love it. Of all the
10:03 dried wreaths or dried flower wreaths I've ever made, I think this one might be
10:06 my favorite. My mom and I did status wreaths. I don't know if it was last year
10:10 or the year before, like it was 100% status. And they were colorful and bright,
10:15 but I love having the variation. I hung the wreath up in the studio just to make
10:19 sure that there were no holes that I needed to fix before I took it up to the
10:23 house. But I wanted to show you what kind of mess I'm left with after I do a
10:27 project like this. So you can see the table up there and the gator that
10:30 actually belongs out in the flower shed. And we've got a few stems that I'll
10:34 probably go through this pile. These were ones that I just didn't use. You can
10:39 see some Crespidia in there, a few lavender. Not that many though. And then
10:43 this is what is left on the ground. Not too bad. I usually just cut the ends or
10:47 remove leaves and just put everything right on the ground. It makes the
10:50 process a lot faster and clean up's usually not too bad. Now let's go take a
10:54 look at the wreath. And here it is. Isn't that beautiful? It's so colorful.
11:01 I've got it hanging here if I step back off of one of our workbench tabletops
11:06 just because it makes it easy to see if there are any holes or gaps that I need
11:09 to fix. Oh, I love all of the difference in texture and color. I was going to try
11:16 to do this a little bit more restrained in the color department. I'm glad I
11:20 didn't though because it made it look so fun and it's such a good representation
11:25 of what's going on out in the garden. Just that bountiful harvest and it looks
11:30 so late summer, so appropriate for the time right now. I love it. There's the
11:35 Echinacea and those are just all throughout. Kind of tried to work those
11:41 into where we had it somewhat even. And then all of the Hydrangeas, they're all
11:45 in those water picks. There's only five stems. But let me tell you, having these
11:49 Sedum and the Celosia, they kind of have a similar shape, kind of that weighty
11:54 circle. Having those to work in throughout made it really nice because it's very
11:59 cohesive even though there's so much going on. There's a cohesion to it as well.
12:04 A lot of the Arrangeum, I popped that in a lot of different locations because it
12:09 can kind of come out from the bulk of the wreath and add a little bit of movement.
12:13 And then the Talinum and the Smokebush, that added fluff which I love.
12:18 Okay, so now we need to go hang it on the kitchen door. It might end up on our
12:23 front door, I'm not sure. They both are glass-backed which makes it a little bit
12:27 hard to see. Not in real life, but in camera it makes it a little bit hard.
12:31 But let's go see what it looks like. Oh, that looks pretty. I like it. See what I
12:37 mean though about the reflective glass that makes the detail a little bit
12:40 harder to see. Oh, that's perfect. And here it is on our front porch which I
12:47 think I'm going to leave it up here. I love how it looks with the wood around it.
12:51 It is much brighter up here too because this is the south side of our house.
12:55 Now we've just got some simple planters. These are Lemon Cypress that we've had
12:59 in here since spring. Easy care because we don't have drip running up to these.
13:03 So I might pop a few pansies in there once we start doing our fall planters, but
13:08 I think that looks really pretty. I'm really happy with how this turned out and
13:11 I really just wanted to show you some of the things that you can use as dried
13:16 elements in an arrangement like this. And I notice even when I'm making
13:20 arrangements throughout the summertime and I'm tucking in some of these things,
13:24 the hydrangea, the eringium, the straw flowers, when I tuck those into my regular
13:28 arrangements, all the other flowers start to look pretty crummy. But all of the
13:33 ones that I used in this wreath, they just stand proud and look so great. So I
13:38 thought I should really get out there, especially when colors are at their peak
13:42 and the shape of some of these are at their peak, and make some arrangements.
13:46 Like there's one spot in my bedroom that I love to have an arrangement, but we're
13:51 not going to have fresh flowers throughout the wintertime. So what if I made
13:54 one out of a lot of these types of flowers so that it can just maintain it and we
13:58 can enjoy it through the wintertime and not worry about swapping it out because
14:01 we just can't get as good of flowers from the grocery store.
14:04 And some of these, like the straw flowers, they change shape as they grow or as
14:10 they mature. So I love it when they're in this shape right here, but you know
14:13 they get older and then they start to look like this, which does add a lot of
14:16 visual interest, but I tend to like them a little bit more when they're closed.
14:21 And then like this one you can see here, the petals even start to downturn.
14:25 So something you want to consider, all of these will age on the plant. So the
14:29 eringium will be less blue and turn more brown, so you want to get after picking
14:33 that one. It's at peak, same with the status. And the straw flowers, the
14:37 gomphrena, lavender, I mean you know how it goes. They start to lose color.
14:44 So if you get after it and pick these things when they're at peak color, then
14:48 they will maintain more of that color in your arrangement. And I think maybe I
14:52 already mentioned, but all of these were started from seed except for the sedum,
14:57 the hydrangeas, and the smokebush. Everything else in this arrangement we
15:02 started from seed, either direct seeding or starting them in trays this spring.
15:07 And that's going to be it for today's project. I hope that it was fun to watch
15:11 this come together. I know it wasn't a step-by-step tutorial necessarily. Maybe
15:15 we can find one of our wreath tutorials from before and link it down below. Same
15:19 concept applies to this. It's just so fun to see what kind of things we can pick
15:24 from our garden right now and put together something like this. It's so
15:29 satisfying. That's one of the reasons why I grow all this stuff. And I'm hoping
15:33 that maybe you saw one or two varieties in here that you are interested in
15:36 growing. It's just so fun to have the different variety. And I tried really
15:40 hard when I was planning out what to grow out in the cut flower garden to make
15:44 sure to have some of these things that we can utilize in this way. Not just all
15:48 dahlias and zinnias and things that don't dry like this. It's fun to have some
15:52 variety. And you guys, there are so many other things in this too. I mean you
15:56 could use corn, like the tassels of your corn. You could use grass seed heads.
16:02 You can use all kinds of different things. And it's just going outside and
16:05 looking at your plants a little bit differently. And seeing what things have
16:08 already gone to seed and do those seed heads look pretty. You can pop them into
16:12 something like this. I mean you could even work some really kind of twisty
16:15 looking beautiful branches that have really nice color into an arrangement like
16:19 this. You can really take it a lot of different directions. So anyway, that's it
16:23 for today's video you guys. Thank you so much for watching. I really do hope you
16:27 enjoyed it and we will see you in the next one. Bye.

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