How To Make an Evergreen Wreath

I love using fresh greenery from our woods to decorate our home at Christmas! Honestly, I love to collect foliage year round when decorating our home! Learn how to make an evergreen wreath to bring in some natural elements to your holiday décor!

When you learn to make your own garland to dress your mantle or an evergreen wreath to adorn your front doors, the natural elements far surpass the store-bought greenery sold at commercial stores.

Adding natural elements to our Christmas décor is one of my favorite ways to decorate for the holidays. We hang these on our iron entry gate, our front porch railings, our front doors, and basically anywhere I can find a place in our home to add some natural Christmas elements.

This process couldn’t be any easier! They look like look like you simply walked out into your yard, filled a basket with fresh clipped branches, and tied them all together?

Well.. that’s pretty much all you do!

Items needed to make an evergreen wreath

Clippings- Cedar, Cyprus, Pine, Fir, Boxwood, Dogwood, etc

Wire

Wire Clippers

Branch Clippers

You can use any greenery you can find in your woods. For these wreaths I used cedar, pine, and Cyprus clippings.

You can also use a grapevine wreath or a simple wreath form if you’d like a more structured wreath. However, I love the look of a simple, unstructured wreath with loose limbs hanging down.

Pro Tip:

An easy place to find cut branches are at the Christmas tree farms and/or lots. Places like Lowe’s will also have lots of loose branches left over from when they trimmed the bottoms of the trees. They will GIVE these away to you!

Step 1: Separate Branches

Separate your branches into smaller and larger groups. We will begin with the largest.

Step 2: Wrap the branch with wire

Begin by wrapping the wire around the end of the first branch to get started. Do not cut the wire since we will continue with the same piece of wire all the way around.

Step 3: Continue wrapping wire and adding branches

Form a circle as you are going around and adding branches. Add as many or as few as you like to make the wreath custom sized.

With each new branch- start tying it about halfway down the previous one and keep going

and then do that again with the next. Wrap wire around the branches as you go pulling tight.(See video to watch how I do this)

Step 4: Connect to first branch

Once you have the wreath size you like, attach the last branch to the first branch with wire to complete your wreath. Don’t cut the wire just yet.

Step 5: Add clippings to fill out the wreath

Fill in the wreath with smaller clippings and branches to fill it out.

Wrap the wire around each smaller clipping as you tuck them into the wreath.

Once you get the wreath as full as you like, clip the wire and twist it to hide it inside the wreath.

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I love using fresh greenery from our woods to decorate our home at Christmas! Honestly, I love to collect foliage year round when for decorating our home! Learn how to make an evergreen wreath to bring in some natural elements to your holiday décor!

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I love using fresh greenery from our woods to decorate our home at Christmas! Honestly, I love to collect foliage year round when decorating our home! Learn how to make an evergreen wreath to bring in some natural elements to your holiday décor!

Items needed to make an evergreen wreath