Christmas gifts from your garden - door decoration
If you have any evergreens in your garden, you can make a stunning door display at virtually no cost.
- Chicken wire
- Florist's foam or moss
- Florist's wire
- Green ribbon
- Sprigs of evergreen
- Berried sprigs, or small red baubles
- Red ribbon
Begin by measuring the panel of your front door on which the door knocker hangs, or if your door isn't panelled, decide on an appropriate size and shape for your decoration. If your door is panelled, you want to make a chicken wire tube, filled with moss, or florist's foam, that will fit around the inside of the panel. Put this framework to soak in some water while you head outside and pick as much greenery as you can find.
Begin by wrapping the frame in green ribbon, don't overlap it, because you need to insert the plant material, but using the ribbon to cover a lot of the base means that any gaps look nice anyway. Now begin to wire the plants to the frame - it's easiest if you divide each time of evergreen into four so that you use a quarter on each section and it looks balanced. Once that's done, fit the berried sprigs or baubles into the overall design, you might decide you only want to use them on the top and bottom, or only on the sides or distribute them all over. Finish with a huge red bow in the middle of the lower edge. Fasten to the door with wires in the four corners, held by tiny tacks.
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