How to Make a Fall Wreath With Mums

Mums offer a beautiful burst of color to any garden. Bright blooms indicate that autumn is on the way, and you can keep the winter blues at bay by creating a glorious garden panorama to match the fall foliage. Be sure to bring some of this exuberance indoors or to your front door by making a wreath to herald the coming of the season.

Things You'll Need

• Grapevine wreath scaffold
• Mums in various colors (real or artificial)
• Scissors
• Sprays of berries (real or artificial)
• Ribbon
• Hot glue gun

Instructions

1. Decide whether you are going to use real or artificial materials. If you want to use the wreath as a centerpiece, then you can use real flowers for a truly impressive, fresh effect. However, if you wish to hang the decoration on your door or use it over and over, you should use artificial materials instead as cutting, gluing and hanging up live plants does not promote their longevity and your decoration likely will not even last a week.

2. 

   Select at least three colors of mums. You can use any colors that you like, but it is probably best for a fall wreath to select red, gold, burnt gold, yellow, deep brown or orange.

3. Cut off sprays or stems of the mums. Depending on how full you want your wreath, you can cut off individual flowers, which will require you to place them very close together and make a fuller, bigger wreath, or sprays of flowers which can be woven through the scaffold and will require fewer stems to fill up the wreath. Leave enough stems to enable you to secure the flowers within the scaffold.

4. 

   Weave the stems of flowers into the scaffold. Work the stems of the mums into the grapevine foundation. The vine will hold the flowers in place without glue, although you will use glue to make sure they are secure.

5. Secure the stems with glue. Use glue to secure the stems of flowers to the wreath. You should also glue the backs of the flowers to the place on the wreath where you want them to stay. Use plenty of glue since the petals will hide it.

6. 

   Fill in gaps with sprigs of berries. Once you have created a full, flowery wreath, add berry accents and fill in any gaps by weaving in and gluing sprays of berries. Red, gold or even green berries will work for this type of accenting.

7. Finish off your wreath with a beautiful ribbon. Tie a loop of ribbon around the top of the wreath to allow for easy hanging. If you wish, you can also add a large bow.

Tips & Warnings

• You cannot have too much stuff on your wreath. Go heavy on the flowers for a beautiful, full, finished look.