Weaving a twig wreath

Winter Woodland Chandelier

Wrap vines and twigs around a wire frame to create a decorative woodland chandelier

Stripping foliage from weaving stems

Remove foliage from stems to weave with

Use dried roots from a re-potted Monstera to create a root lace-wreath

Every repotting season I struggle with what to do with my overgrown Monstera plant. It absolutely loves hanging out in my design room... so... let's design, Monstera!

Just hatched willow twig egg armature

Craft a cracked egg shape armature for an Easter display.

Willow nest roll that continues to grow for a Spring display

This design is meant to be long lasting and ever changing... make now and enjoy all the way to Easter and beyond

Thread your wreaths in a row to show off your "it could (almost) be mistaken for Spring sprouts"

Late winter flowering irises in a wreath armature

Edge of a platter Christmas quarter wreath garland

How to make a floral display design that will leave space for even more decorations.

Four wreath harvest basket that looks like it grew that way… because now some of it still is!

Harvest some cuttings to root in a wild and overgrown floral design.

Coiled Spring and Wreath flower frog

Wind vines into an all natural armature to display your first of many... perfect... Spring flowers.

A secret and so pretty stay open support for a growing willow birdcage

Grow your own willow birdcage in a small pot to display Spring flowers in.

Get a head start with a long lasting shallow vine basket and succulent table top Spring display

Long, long, long lasting display that will even root in place with a few adjustments.

Christmas twig wreath, cinnamon bundles, clove garlands and roses of orange peel candle holder

Take the whole waste free design concept a whole lot further by displaying all your Christmas simmer pot ingredients... ready to be harvested as needed.

Add light filled snowy fluff inside a display container

A fun way to make a winter design glow.

Cinnamon Bundles

Pretty wire bundles to add fragrance to any design

Clove Copper Garland

Twist and wire a gorgeously sparkly clove copper wire string.

Orange peel spiral roses

A fragrant way to add an uplifting dried detail to your winter design.

First Frost Sparkle Wire and Twinkle Vine Wreath

An impossibly delicate wreath shape that will last... and last... all Festive Season long.

Knot a vine wreath and ripped grass bug net

Simply easy design... with tiny design details to make your summer display unique.

Foxtail wreath frog with a leg in water

Twirl the fern into a wreath so that it can remain hydrated.

Willow and Vine tiny stem Gathering Basket

Tiny stems are often also delicate stems... place your cut flowers directly in a small glass of water. A perfect fit for this basket.

Glue an early Spring basket from leftover cherry blossom twigs

After the last petal drops cut the blossom twigs into snippets to craft a basket with.

Blossom Twig Heart Frame… with a twist in the middle

Curve and tie a blossoming twig into a heart... that can suspend a heavy flower head.

A Reflex Rose Rose Hip… Rose

Making a rose even more roselike by enhancing its rosy-ness.

Summer harvest Vine Swirl

A great way have your vines root and enjoy them too...

Using European OASIS floral glue to secure floral details… yes! It makes a difference

Securing the most delicate of design details successfully has a lot to do with what glue you use. But what glue is even more complicated than just brand.

Copper Pepper Berry Wreath

Wire pepper berries to a wreath

Weave a willow wreath around a minimal pumpkin display

It’s amazing how we sometimes try to complicate a design. I tried adding calla lilies… took them out and loved the willow. Added gerberas. Took them out and loved the willow. Added orchids. Took them out and loved the willow. Added Dahlias… and yes, took them out and loved the willow. So finally I just thought- I really do love the willow.

A quick and easy way to Craft a Twig Basket Using Wire Tendrils

The hardest part of this is actually making the tendrils. From there it's a few twists... and we are done!

Wire wrap for a shallow container to keep a twig arch armature neatly in place

Wrap a wire around both ends of a shallow container to keep the twigs in place.

Craft a wreath chain to link a few bud vases together

All you need is a few twigs to craft this design- it's a perfect floral meditation activity.

Submerged vine wreath armature to beat the summer heat

Water... lots of water- that is the answer to designing flower arrangements that survive the summer heat.

Baby’s Breath Wave Cascade

Easy and quick arrangement to do for summer in a vase... with just enough complexity to make you feel real good about yourself.

Spring breeze tangled ribbon wreath

Using branches pruned from a fruit tree... with a few dried flowers and just a few orchids to make a fresh Spring design.

Catch Blossom Petals in a Pussy Willow tray basket

An easy to assemble yourself harvest basket to carry home and display Spring blossoms.

Weave a grass Christmas tree

Easy armature design that is actually quite relaxing to do... plant meditation!

Contactless gift exchange wreath perfect to double as Santa’s Gift Bag for your front door

Craft a small pouch into a half-and-half wreath so that you can leave... and receive tiny gifts and cards in true Christmas 2020 style .

Wire Stars

Wrap wire around a cardboard star for a quick three dimensional decoration.

Floral wreath ring stem armature for a cute pumpkin patch in a stem vase design

Use a wreath to keep flower and a heavy little ghost pumpkin in place in a small vase.

Peg a wreath to the edge of a container

Another version of a design idea I showed you last month... A vine wreath armature to balance a dramatic single stem anthurium. Only this time I take it a bit further.

Tangle a perfect vine around two wreaths for a split armature

Passion fruit flowers never lasts long. Not even growing outside on a vine. But the buds continue to open once cut making a wreath display ideal for an even changing passion fruit flower display.

Building up a wreath panel

Connect six wreaths to build up a hanging panel to display your flowers on.

Overgrown vine tangle to suspend flowers in a clear vase

A zero waste and sustainable floral design solution to keep your flowers exactly where you want them without using floral foam.

Knot a Lavender chain link necklace or floral crown

This is without a doubt the quickest and easiest floral project on my entire site. And rather fun to do. I make these.. all... the... time!

Impossibly delicate Dancing Lady orchid wreath

Weave a wreath around a cardboard circle to create an almost lace effect... perfect to capture those first signs of Spring!

Here it is: the quickest, easiest Christmas wreath… ever!

My work is usually so labour intensive... this one came as a wonderful surprise... it really is both quick and easy to craft this wreath!

Weave a burst of overgrown wildness wreath

This wreath is perfectly imperfect. Perfect for using those first few autumn (or preserved from last autumn) leaves.

Weave a small wreath in the side twig of a willow branch to keep a flower in place in your design

This is both a decorative and functional design solution. But most importantly, I think, there is absolutely zero waste.

Winter white Tulle bridal basket

Craft a delicate bridal basket from twigs and tulle.

Off-center hole-wreath armature

Craft a slightly off center wreath from dried vines and grasses for Phalaenopsis orchids.

Wisteria Wreath Vine

Weave tiny vine wreaths on the leave stems of a stripped Wisteria vine

Wisteria Vine Wreath Armature

Create a barely there armature with sturdy end of season vines.

Clematis Vine Swing

Weave a delicate nest for a small spring design.

Craft a Spring basket from a wreath

A wide gap nearly basket for nearly spring

Willow birdcage

Weave a willow birdcage to use as a wedding ring box

Display wreath that hover around a big shiny pumpkin

For this design I wanted my wreath to be light and airy so that it just whips around the solid pumpkin like a breeze.

Tendril vine Wreath Pumpkin

Reshape a vine wreath into smaller wreaths to combine as a pumpkin

Chain link wreath weaving

Weave a few small wreaths to connect

Designing an odd one out wreath

Adding floral material to a wreath design

A little nest for Easter chocolates that naturally hooks over the edge of a container

Weave a tiny nest with a twig hook so that you can hang it in a design

Three Tier Wire Ring Chandelier

Bend and weave three wire wreaths to string up as an air plant chandelier

Wrap lily grass around bits of vine

Create visual interest by loosely wrapping lily grass around an armature

Glue floral details into an artificial wreath frame

Quick and easy way to securely decorate an artificial wreath with natural elements

Cut a vine wreath into sections to create a cup shaped armature

Cut a coiled vine wreath into sections to create an delicate armature to frame a few perfect chocolate cosmos flowers

Weaving grass to create a delicate mesh cup armature

I wanted a really delicate, see-through armature to frame my tiny flowers so I wove grass in panels around the vine shape

Willow flower crown

Loosely weave willow tips to create an ethereal crown

Hanging Tillandsia

There are many ways to hang your air plants in a design. In this Tutorial I explore three

Hanging Willow Nest

Bend and weave a nest shape from fresh willow stems

Loosened Wreath Armature

Snip a dried twig wreath to undo the spirals to hang around a glass container

Silver bell Christmas Greenery kissing ball

Use delicate sprigs of cypress or juniper, fir, pine, eucalyptus, ivy or a combination of them all to create a winter themed kissing bough

Autumn leaf and decorative tissue paper gift bag

A gift bag that dries beautifully

Hana-Kubari Bamboo Stilts with a Hidden Water Source

Split bamboo stems to create a water source for dancing orchids

Overgrown Willow web inspired by a traditional Dream-catcher

I wanted my willow armature to hint of a web-like dreamcatcher that grows in the wild rather than being a precise replica of the traditional craft technique. But I did weave it in a similar way.

Willow Heart Wand

Pine Bauble

Pine needles create tiny balls

Flower Girl Red Net Basket

Weave a twig wreath for an easy net basket

Leaf Swirls

Cut fall leaves to create continuous swirls

Tiny Rattan Basket

Weave a thin and delicate rattan basket

Pine scale wreath

Break pine scales from the cone and glue on a wreath frame to create a continuous pine scale wreath

Twist your own Wire Wreath frame

Make a wire wreath frame with wire and cover it with growth mesium or moss to design on

Stacked Twig Roundabout

This is a great way to use all those bits of twigs and sticks in your design room to make a floral armature

Weaving Willow spheres

I build up the spheres by weaving willow wreaths and then use those to shape the ball

Glue a forest filigree twig wreath

This wreath is not woven but glued to create a see-through forest filigree

Spring Light

Wrap and weave a lace fine disk.

I Break For Beauty

A cracked Easter Egg willow armature for hiding some treats...

Spring Roll

oh yes... Spring is definitely rolling in with some fresh growth on the willow just to prove it!

“Ha ha ha weeeeee!"

Beautiful iris wreath kebab to chase away the winter blues

A Very Merry… all elf pass into Santa’s workshop, special department of tinkering together those Soooo Good, for Goodness Sake moments

Long lasting and easy to pick up and place garland to decorate a Festive Platter of… anything, really!

Haerfest

Rooting clematis cuttings in a harvest wreath basket

springy, Spring, spring

Gorgeous Aquilegia vulgaris spring flower... with it's own springy thing!

A Stay Open

Grow a willow birdcage... with a bit of a Spring flower support to get it started.

I'll Go First

My Spring/Easter design and the introduction article about my floral journey written by the editor, Nina Tucknott in the latest issue of Flora Magazine.

A Very Merry Dried Orange and these from My Greenhouse to yours Trendy Christmas Cheer

And of course I would add the environmentally friendly-estest floral design option to top all the rest. Reusable and upcycled... and smells wonderful.

A warm up

An almost Christmas... Christmas wreath featured in the winter edition of Flora Magazine.

Catch and Release

Ah... yes summer time designing. Anyone else seeing more insects hiding between the petals this year?

everywhere IS nature

A lush wreath that remains green so that you can design once... and cut and cut and place your violas to make sure you have flowers all season long.

Short Cut

A tiny carry basket to gather the shortest stems from your cutting garden... with a place for water and your cutters.

… ish

An early... ish Spring basket glued from blossom twigs

If you frame it that way…

A blossom frame to display the prettiest anthurium of the whole bunch!

bonfire

A final rosy burst of fiery autumn colour.

Overgrown S-Autum-mer Swirl

Designing for somewhere not still summer not yet autumn weather...

You Say Tomato I Say Tomato

Tiny tomato vine design to celebrate Summer.

Coppepeppepepper wreath

Wire dried pepper berries to a wreath with super fancy flat wire (okay... it's the humble wire from a copper pot scrubber but it still looks fancy!)

Gratitude

A minimal Thanks Giving design that is a modern take on a wreath

A good measure of Autumn

A wire and twig permanent display basket with tiny water sources for a few fresh flowers that can be replaced as needed.

Blowing this way and that

Craft an arch armature to display those early autumn treasures.

Linked This Way

A fun way to elevate a few bud vases into a display.

Over Easy

A cooling design to celebrate the summer solstice.

Making Waves

A quick and easy to do cascade design for summer.

First we learn HOW to design… and then we learn how only WE design.

Whipped up to be light in the Spring breeze wreath design.

Spring Tray-ning

A Spring basket design for catching falling blossom petals.

Have yourself a Merry Cellulose Fibre Christmas: wired snowball pom pom for a woven grass Christmas tree

...ok not really that fancy- it’s made from paper pulp. Some cardboard to wrap the string around… really. In the spirit of 2020- I am inspired by the endless stream of cardboard boxes being delivered. This week I am making loads of snowball pom poms.

Have yourself a Merry Cellulose Fibre Christmas: Santa’s gift bag wreath

...ok not really that fancy- it’s made from paper pulp. A cardboard box gift bag wreath… really. In the spirit of 2020- I am inspired by the endless stream of cardboard boxes being delivered.

Let’s circle around to this one

Create a floral circlet to rest the little pumpkin on... but above the water line.

The circle of making new things:

A wreath armature design for early Autumn... this takes the split armature Tutorial I showed you last month a little bit further.

All round pretty sweet and short

Frame a passion flower in a vine wreath for a short lived but so pretty arrangement.

End Up

Connect small wreaths to create a pretty summer armature to arrange your flowers on.

All Out

An all out effective way of keeping a flower stem in the exact spot you want it to be in a clear water vase design.

be MINDFUL of the invisible stuff you add

Left over flowers and off-cuts are ideal to transform into a quick floral crown or necklace. This is the absolute easiest design, yet!

On-Spring-dium

A almost impossibly delicate oncidium (dancing lady) orchid wreath.

A Happy, Merry, Jolly (easy as that!) Eucalyptus Christmas wreath

Now this is quite a discovery! And it honestly is the easiest and quickest way to go from "I still want to decorate for Christmas" to "... aaand I am done, I made our wreath"

It’s a sugar rush!

A perfectly imperfect wild willow wreath to display the first Autumn treasures of the year.

Transition into Fall

A sustainable, absolutely no waste floral design using willow to suspend your flower head in your arrangement.

Magical Craftsmanship

My article and winter white Tulle bridal basket design featured in DIY Weddings Magazine.

Hole-ding it’s breath

Craft an almost Autumn armature from dried sweet pea vines

Wreath Vine Season!

Weave tiny wreaths on the stems of Wisteria vines

Swing Vine

Weave a delicate vine swing to nestle a small vase with spring flowers in

Bring some Spring

Just like the weather is only hinting at spring, so is this design only hinting at being a basket

Old, new trends

My article and willow birdcage design for wedding rings featured in DIY Weddings Magazine.

Up around the bend

Bend Equisetum into curves to wire into an open wreath shape

Up around the bend

Bend Equisetum into curves to wire into an open wreath shape

Whipped up in the autumn breeze

Give a loosely woven wreath legs to stand on to hover lightly around a pumpkin

As tendrils tend to do

Curl a wreath with tendrils to create a twig-pumpkin

Link

weave a few wreaths to link

Well… we did it again!

Blossoms and chocolates for Easter

A Twirl

Suspend a wire chandelier design to twirl

Piece of the forest

Standing roses upright in a shallow container

All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate): Snipped into Sections

This was the second design I did in my "All things Autumn (by which I mean all things chocolate)" floral art demonstration

There are Octobers

Autumn wreath

You are all invited!

My article and Willow Crown design featured in DIY Weddings Magazine

Strangeness

Weave a wreath to display air plants on

Practice

Weave a willow bird nest

Ring-a-round

Open a vine wreath to create a spiral twig armature around a glass container

Creative Expectations

My article and a floral parasol design featured in DIY Weddings Magazine

Autumn is a mosaic of them all

Easy to assemble fall leaf and tissue paper gift bag

Watch the leaves turn

Roll autumn leaves to create a wreath

So

A willow sphere to display your first Autumn treasures.

Bent

Weave a wreath from sweetpea stems and tendrils

How To Catch A Dream

Take inspiration from a traditional Dream-catcher design to create a floral armature

Love Spell

Weave willow to create a heart shaped wand design

Pluviophile

Float grass snippets in water

Red, Redder, Reddest!

My article and flower girl net basket design featured in the Red! issue of DIY Weddings Magazine

This is the Fragrance of November

Weave a wreath to thread a dome for an Autumn leaf design

Flower Girl’s Butterfly Net and Ring Bearer Bug Box

Two fairy tale design details that will capture the imagination of even the youngest members of your wedding party. A tiny bug box to carry your rings in for the ring bearer and a small butterfly net filled with confetti petals for a small flower girl to scatter down the aisle. This DIY projects were fashioned for the DIY Weddings Magazine

On The Street Where You Live

A floral design snapshot of what it looks like when walking down the streets of Vancouver this week.

Veiled Sunshine:50th Anniversary of the South African Orchid Society at the Cape Town Convention Centre.

Bright and sunny cymbidium orchids and roses, lilies, lisianthus and pincushions

Feeling Funky

I wove vine wreaths to form a pyramid, one just slightly larger than the next. In the natural cavities between the wreaths I placed the roses and lisianthus in plastic covered Oasis

The last Vine Wreath

Every designer knows how to stretch their supplies. We use and re-use our dried plant material until our fellow designers feel like hiding it from us. I formed such an attachment to my vine wreaths. This post features four designs using the same wreaths.

Salix matsudana "Tortuosa"

I wove three willow spheres for my Floral Art design Three Drops of floral chocolate.