Wreaths Designed with Grasses and Dried Flowers: A New Holiday Trend
Occasionally something stops us in our tracks on Instagram. Destined for a local café in Sheffield where the floral designer’s store... ...Swallows & Damsons is based, the wreath was a supersize reminder of how effective grasses can be in a festive design. Potter’s wreath uses a custom-made 4.5 ft forged steel hoop... Photograph courtesy of Anna Potter. ...which is recycled seasonally as the design and ingredients change. Here, she has used long stems of pampas grass and bear grass to create sculptural, swirling tails and loops. Nikki Kuwayama of California-based studio Velvet Curation Co—which sells dried foliage and flowers— uses dried grass to create similar swirls in this wreath design... Photograph courtesy of Nikki Kuwayama. ...adding color with branches of asparagus fern, red berries, and dried cress stems. Her asymmetric design is built onto a simple vine base. Kitten Grayson’s Christmas shop has Zingara flower baubles as well as exquisite wreaths, including the pictured Meadow Mountain design. Dried flower guru and author of Everlastings Bex Partridge has given her collection of seasonal wreaths enigmatic names... Photograph courtesy of Bex Partridge. ...including the “Bones of Winter” and the pictured “Wild Wreath” (both from £75), which uses curling grasses along with nicandra seedheads and dried Ammobium alutum. Partridge has also authored an e-guide to a natural Christmas, downloadable from her online store, Botanical Tales. Photograph courtesy of Studio Mim. Gather your wreath materials on a weekend walk. Studio Mim’s wild woodland wreath uses a vine base topped with bracken fronds, wild clematis seedheads, and dried beech leaves along with a contrasting, crumpled silk ribbon. Jade Schol is the Wiltshire-based designer behind Arie and Vine’s ethereal installations, including botanical clouds of light-as-feather ferns and wreaths named after Santa’s reindeer. Photograph courtesy of Jade Schol.