Fresh herbal wreath
How to make a herbal wreath and also ways to vary the theme including Christmas and also a kitchen wreath.
This ring looks very attractive hanging in the kitchen. If you choose culinary herbs to include in the design, it can act as a dried herb store as well, and you can snip pieces off the ring to include in recipes as they are needed. The example is purely decorative, as the herbs are not usually needed in cooking.
Hot glue gun
silver rose wire
twiggy wreath ring, approximately 25cm/10in diameter
small bunches of whichever herbs are handy - this example includes leaves and prigs of golden sage, camomile, lavender, santolina, scented geranium
scissors
2m/2yd co-ordinating ribbon, 2cm/ 戮 in wide
1. Use the hot glue gun or wire to attach a good covering of golden sage and anthemis leaves to the wreath ring.
2. Make small bunches of the lavender and santolina, binding them with wire on to the wreath ring.
3. Choose the point where you want to attach the ribbons, and put three medium-sized scented geranium leaves here to act as a backing for the ribbon. Make double loops and streamers with the ribbon of your choice, bind them with wire and glue or wire them on to the ring. Other small flowers or herbs could also be fixed on as an extra. Once the herbs start to dry, keep adding more so that the ring becomes fuller and fuller. It will then eventually dry to a beautiful decoration.
To adapt the ring to be used at Christmas time you can replace the herbs with clove studded oranges, bundles of cinnamon sticks tied together with thin golden ribbon, holly and mistletoe bundles and small toys or music scrolls and instruments. You can spray pinecones with gold or silver paint and then to finish off tie a large gold bow at the top of the wreath to hide the hook for attaching it to the wall.
To adapt the ring to the kitchen wreath some herbs you could use are : Marjoram, Coriander, Mint, Oregano, Basil, Dill, Sage and Cinnamon.
~From the Essortment website
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