Make Your Own Stunning Dried Flower Wreath for Fall

Your garden might be slowing down, but its story isn’t over yet. Let’s create a lasting impression with a DIY dried flower wreath. This project is a wonderful way to cherish the beauty of your garden long after the frost arrives.

Creating a dried flower wreath is a wonderful way to bring a touch of the outdoors into your home, no matter the season. In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of crafting your own unique wreath, from gathering materials to the final touches. Let’s transform your garden’s treasures into a stunning piece of home decor.

Capture Nature’s Beauty: Autumn Dried Flower 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.

Selecting the Perfect Flowers

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

The flowers that I chose for this wreath will dry naturally on the wreath over the next couple of weeks. So no need to take the time to dry them out beforehand.

One note is that celosia and amaranth have small black seeds similar to poppy seeds that will drop. So you can give them a light shake before you make your wreath. Also, I like to run my fingertip over the stem and collect the seeds to save and plant next year.

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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! One budget-friendly tip for you is to check your local thrift stores for wreaths, ignore the ugly flowers and see if underneath there is a good wreath form that you can reuse!

Assembling The Wreath

This dried flower wreath couldn’t be easier to put together! I started with the biggest flower which was the sunflower heads, then just continued adding flowers around the wreath varying the colors and textures.

To make it even easier I simply kept the flowers in place by just poking them through the spaces in the grapevine on the wreath.

Creating your dried flower wreath is a truly enjoyable and creative process. There’s no right or wrong way to do it,

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

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

Remember, the key to a beautiful wreath is to have fun and experiment! Don’t be afraid to move things around until you’re happy with the arrangement.

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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 that I grew this year was Amaranth. The plumes hanging over my white garden fence are so pretty!

The colorful plumes of the amaranth and celosia that were added to this Fall wreath bring fun pops of color but also look pretty. The fuzzy texture is so interesting.

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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Finished Dried Flower Wreath

Here’s my finished Fall dried flower wreath…gosh, I just love flowers! They bring me so much joy!

Here’s the finished wreath, I just love how all the different shapes, colors, and textures all come together! It goes perfectly with the rest of my Fall porch decor this year.

I’d like to invite you to visit this Fall Front Porch to see my other rustic and natural ideas that you can try on your own porch this year.

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Creating a dried flower wreath is a delightful way to extend the beauty of your garden throughout the year. With a little creativity and patience, you can transform ordinary blooms into a stunning piece of home decor.

Remember, there are no strict rules when it comes to wreath making. Let your imagination guide you as you experiment with different flowers, colors, and textures.

Enjoy the process, and savor the beauty of your handmade creation!

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