How to Make a Garden Wreath

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Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Making a garden wreath from whatever you have in your garden is a fantastic way to turn your garden trimmings into beautiful arrangements. Much better than throwing in your compost!

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0:00.0	What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by
0:06.2	the awesome Stephanie Rose, a Vancouver Master Gardner, permaculture designer. She is the
0:11.1	founder of the amazing website Garden Therapy which I've known about for I think
0:16.4	ever since the beginning of starting up at gardening which is amazing and she's also
0:20.2	the author of nine books including including the upcoming book Garden Alchemy.
0:24.0	And speaking of, we're going to be doing a little bit of Garden Alchemy in today's episode.
0:28.1	We're talking about making a garden wreath from whatever you have in your garden which is something that even as I read
0:35.5	that Stephanie causes anxiety within me because I'm such I'm so not an aesthetic like crafty
0:42.3	type of human being that I would love to know what you have to say
0:46.8	about this.
0:50.8	You crack me up, that's so funny.
0:51.8	Well, you know what, the thing with a wreath and I don't
0:54.7	want to get to woo-woo on you but the thing is I really believe that plants bring
0:58.6	people together and when the other day I was outside, well actually it was about two weeks ago now, I was outside and I was pruning my hydrange evac and it's right in my front yard and it had all these big beautiful blooms on it and I had this huge pile of blooms and so I posted on social media
1:17.4	to all my neighborhood groups. I've got all these hydrangea blooms come and grab them for vases come and put them in a wreath, come and do whatever.
1:24.9	And nobody came.
1:25.9	Like, usually these free groups send people out from all over and nobody came.
1:30.6	So I had set up a table and with my basket got a bunch of wreath forms that I had and I just started making wreaths.
1:38.0	And as people came by and I chatted with my neighbors, I said,
1:41.0	they said, oh, that's so beautiful. so beautiful I said well would you like it and
1:43.5	so I gave away four wreaths that day and I still had a bucket of blooms to give
1:49.7	away and people were just you should have seen them, they were just bubbling, they were taking pictures of it and showing them on social media. I took a few pictures and then I put them in the groups and said like here's what I'm making if you guys want to come by I'm giving
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