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Welcome to the first episode of our mini Christmas series, which is a celebration of giving you lots of inspiration of how to

have a wonderful Christmas using lots of things from the garden and how to make it beautiful.

Our first episode is on wreaths and we've covered these quite a bit, so we don't want to dwell

too much on the sort of practicalities of how to make a reef

but more to give real inspiration of absolutely thinking of the things outside your back door

whether it be in your garden or perhaps a little tiny bit very careful picking from a headrow

if you have the land owner's permission,

etc. But how you can really bring the outside in at this time of year and have just such a

wonderful effect for no money. So over to you, Arthur, on what you're going to have this year for your Christmas wreath.

Well, there was one year where I had to forage from brownfield sites to do quite a large reef for a shop door.

Actually, it was the door at the end of Bridgewater factory.

And I remember going onto a brownfield site and being faced with a beautiful

dry tapestry of dock leaf seed heads. And they're the kind of things that you'd never notice

at any other time a year. And that's what I like about sometimes being forced to decorate on a

budget. You all made to see decay as something that can

become beautiful and so I'd got my big wreath base and it was a moss reef base and I'd cut lots of

dock seed heads and I just sort of made them into individual posies and with my string very tautly

tied on each posy so the ends overlapped each other and it became

what almost looked like a grouse's nest if you can imagine that so that sticks out for me the thing

that often saves reefs when you've used lots of brown is our good old friend copperware fairy lights

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