Spring Wreath Tutorial

I am so ready for warmer weather and more flowers, so I decided to make a wreath for the front porch.  I was inspired by several I found on Pinterest, but as usual, I have to do things my own way.  While we are doing this, I’ll share my secret for deciding what to use in any arrangement.  It might surprise you.

The first thing to do is get your wreath base, whatever you like to use.  My favorite base is grapevines because they hold up almost forever, and can be taken apart and reused.  This one has seen a few incarnations, so to freshen it up I spray painted it white.

The local craft store had a sale, and I picked up several floral clusters at 40% off.   The tulips really looked like spring, so I got one in pink and one in white.  I picked up a cluster with purple and yellow flowers, along with a cluster of jonquils in yellow and white.  Sorry these pictures are a little dark, my workbench is in a room without windows.

Now, here is the secret.  I use the rule of odd number of items, along with the Fibonacci number sequence to decide what to put on the arrangement.  So, I want an odd number of items, different flowers and fill ins, and the Fibonacci numbers incorporated.  For those not familiar with this, it is everywhere in nature, and makes a pleasing arrangement whether you are arranging flowers, or putting borders on quilts.  The sequence is made by starting with 0 and 1, adding together the last two numbers to get the next one.  So, 0-1-1-2-3-5-8-13 and so on.

As I was cutting the flowers apart on the purple flower grouping, I noticed it used this sequence too.  There is one little bellflower stem, one miniature carnation, two dark purple flowers, three hydrangea and five light purple daisies on that one stem.

Begin by putting your largest items on first and work down to smaller.  So, I cut five pink tulips and three white ones off their main stems and placed them on the wreath.  Secure using hot glue.

Then add the purple daisies, as they were the next largest item.  I used all five.  Place the three hydrangeas.  Cut off excess stems as you need to, going shorter with the smaller items.

Working down in size, I added the two little purple flowers, then filled in the holes with eight jonquil clusters.  I like asymmetrical designs, so I put the flowers up and over the top, but left the lower right area uncovered.  I made a small bow with a purple pansy ribbon I had in the stash.

Here it is hanging on the porch.  Just now noticed that you can see the mountain valley reflected in the kitchen window.  How cool is that!

Happy Spring!