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Hang an elegant
floral wreath
Follow our simple steps to create this beautiful
door decoration – it will look fabulous inside or out
You will need
20cm florists’ foam ring Six stems of rhododendron leaves
1.5m ribbon (lightly dusted with gold spray)
Five stems of eucalyptus Six large red roses
Three stems of pine Red spray roses, with about 20
Two hydrangea heads, split to create flower heads (each individual spray
five smaller heads should have around eight heads)
Eight stems of green hypericum berries
Step 1
Soak the foam ring in cold water for
around one hour until no more bubbles
appear. Fold the ribbon in half and, keeping
it as dry and clean as possible, loop it around
the top of the ring, threading the tails of the
ribbon through the loop to make a secure
fixing that you can use to hang your wreath.
Trim the eucalyptus into 10-12cm sprigs and
push into the foam, spacing evenly.
Step 2
Trim the pine into 10-12cm lengths
and push into the foam, spacing them
equally around the ring and filling any
gaps left between the eucalyptus
leaves. Push the small hydrangea heads
into the ring, again spacing them at
equal intervals. Add the berries and the
sprigs of sprayed rhododendron leaves
evenly around the wreath.
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Cut the stems of the large red roses to
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around 8-10cm below the flower head –
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longer. Space them out equally around
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the ring, dotting the spray roses in
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gaps with sprigs of foliage. Your wreath

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