Garden Fresh Hydrangea Wreath How To

Before you put your garden to rest for the season, make a beautiful hydrangea wreath with spent flowers. A stunning harvest decor accent you can easily make yourself.

Have hydrangeas growing in your yard? Or maybe a neighbors? Before the winter winds blow, create an easy and beautiful DIY hydrangea wreath. Add spent garden flowers for a gorgeous harvest decor accent. Your pretty wreath will dry perfectly as you enjoy it’s beauty. You’ll love how simple and fun it is to make this Garden Fresh Hydrangea Wreath How To.

Garden Fresh Hydrangea Wreath How To

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Gather and Forage Your Materials

You’ll want a loosely woven grapevine wreath as your base. I used a 12″ one for this wreath. (You can find one HERE)

Then gather your garden flowers. Snip them with longer stems (10-12″). You can always trim off excess. This is what I picked from my yard:

• Hydrangea heads: Limelight conical ones, green mophead Annabelles and mophead Endless Summer.
• feathery grasses
• spent sunflower heads (without petals)
• spent Echinacea flowers (larger black seed head without petals)
• spent Rudbeckia flowers (smaller black seed heads without petals)
• amaranth flowers (long hanging pink flowers that will dry easily)

First, Make The Hydrangea Wreath Base

Start by poking hydrangea stems into the grapevine wreath at an angle, working your way around. Make sure the flower head feels supported. Pull the stem through the grapevine until the flower head touches the wreath form.

Different hydrangea shaped flowers will create a different effect. I first placed all the conical Limelight hydrangea flower heads around, some more in back, some more in front. I placed them all going the same way, clockwise.

Then I added the green mophead Annabelle hydrangea heads in between to fill it out. I had two Endless Summer darker pink ones I added in too.

Laying down like this, it would make a striking centerpiece with a tall faux pillar candle in the middle. (gorgeous wedding centerpiece idea, if you have a lot of hydrangeas)

Hang Your Hydrangea Wreath to Complete

The hydrangea wreath could be all done right now if you want. It’s beautiful as is. But I wanted this one to reflect the end of the garden harvest bounty. A little fuller, a little wilder;)

I hung mine on an old garden gate to finish arranging.

I stuck the feathery grasses in five different places around the wreath (odd numbers are always good when arranging). Then I stuck in the rudbeckia stems; I had cut them long with multi-branches, and some leaves on for interest.

Then came the echinacea seed pods and sunflower heads for a nice pop of black.

Lastly I popped in the amaranth blooms, hanging down around the sunflower heads. I love their pink, drippy habit and call them their old fashioned name, love-lies-bleeding. I grow them from seed each year.

The Finished Garden Fresh Hydrangea Wreath

This pretty wreath will dry as is. Kept out of direct sunlight, it will keep it’s color better. It can be enjoyed indoors or out on a porch. To keep the petals more intact, spray with cheap aerosol hairspray once it dries. If the colors fade, touch up with THIS type of paint in your desired color. (I use this type of paint to give color to my winter container pots (“5 Ways to Make Your Outdoor Winter Containers Beautiful”).

We’ll be enjoying this beauty on our harvest mantel this year!

Crafting a lovely hydrangea wreath with spent garden flowers is a great way to extend the enjoyment of your summer garden. The foliage looks beautiful combined with harvest pumpkins and gourds, too. And it’s a simple DIY. Definitely make a few of these each year to enjoy. And plant more hydrangea bushes, so you’ll have more to harvest!

See “A Year’s Worth of DIY Wreath Ideas” for more unique projects.

And “10+ Brilliant Places to Hang a Wreath”.

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