How To Make A Dried Flower Wreath

As my garden winds down for the season there is still so much beauty to be had! I collected a basketful of flowers, seed pods, and greenery and I’ll show you how to make a dried flower wreath from your garden.

Making An Autumn Garden Wreath

October is such a lovely month in New Hampshire. The weather has just cooled down this week and the maples in my yard are just starting to change colors. Some of my flowers have finished blooming for the season and have started to dry out, others are just getting started like my dahlias.

With a basket and my clippers in hand, I headed outside to gather things to make a garden wreath for my front door.

flowers for wreath

I collected sunflowers, berries, strawflowers, celosia, amaranth, hydrangeas, seed pods, sage, ornamental grass plumes, and a few other things to make my wreath.

wreath form

For this wreath, I grabbed an old wreath form I had. To be honest I usually end up taking most of my wreaths apart and reusing the wreath forms year to year (I’ve gotta keep giving you all fresh ideas!!)

Any grapevine wreath form would work to make this wreath so don’t stress!

adding the flowers to the wreath

This dried flower wreath couldn’t be easier to put together! Simply start adding the different flowers to the wreath form by just poking them through the spaces in the grapevine.

I started with the biggest flower which was the sunflower heads, then just played around with the other flowers to see what looked best next to them,

There’s no real science to this…you can just tell when the flowers complement each other!

I loved the lilac pods that I found on one of my bushes! They had such a pretty and delicate look.

There is so much beauty even in dried flower heads! I love all the different shapes and textures. It’s such a nice remembrance of Summer days.

I am so lucky to live in a place where there’s so much natural beauty all around! Even the weeds look pretty in my dried flower wreath! The red berries I cut from an overgrown bush in the back of my yard…I was just cursing how it needed to be cut back a few weeks ago but now it produced these pretty berries.

One of my favorite flowers to grow this year was Amaranth. The plumes hanging over my white garden fence are so pretty!

My Endless Summer hydrangeas were just amazing this year! I don’t know if it was the weird weather we had in New Hampshire over the Summer or what but I’ve never had so many blooms before! I’ve done so many things with the dried hydrangeas already this Fall.

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• HERE’S A FEW OF MY HYDRANGEA PROJECTS
• EARLY FALL DECORATING
• FALL HYDRANGEA WREATH
• TIN CAN VASE
• FALL GARLAND
• HOW TO DRY HYDRANGEAS

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dried flower wreath

Here’s my finished Fall dried flower wreath…gosh, I just love flowers! They bring me so much joy! I love to capture all these beautiful images so when I’m miserable in February because it’s so dark and cold, I can look at them!

Here’s the finished wreath. I’m going to use it on my front door this Fall. I just love how all the different shapes, colors, and textures all come together!