Summary
I think there’s an authenticity, a real connection, and heartfelt honesty about creating Christmas wreaths using materials you have either grown, or things that you can find, or bring in from your garden. Those ingredients also have another huge advantage, and it is this. As well as being fresher, there’s also no carbon footprint, and really no need for them to have flown for miles to adorn your own Christmas wreath.
Our fierce ethos is that scent, season and ultimately sustainability is the most beautiful thing we can choose to create our wreaths with. Here in Cheshire, next to the canal, our hawthorn hedges are filled to bursting with berried ivy. We grow lots of foliage in our cut flower garden too, as when the flowers are gone in winter, their leaves provide colour and shape, and the promise of things to come in springtime.
I confess I always leave lots of holly berries for the blackbirds too but truthfully, we have quite a large tree at our gate. Our desire is for everyone to think of foraging as a thoughtful, responsible, and nature enhancing activity. Dried “weeds” can add wonderful texture – take the seed heads out of our garden, and leave some for the birds too.
Spruce, holly and ivy are traditional and beautiful ingredients for Christmas but there are other less used but equally brilliant that you can add to your Christmas wreaths . Some of our favourites include:
- Bay
- Bracken
- Camellia
- Cotoneaster
- Pittosporum
- Skimmia
If you’d like to learn how you too can make Christmas sustainable, and create a a seasonal scented wreath in your very own wild garden style join us in one of our live online classes. We’ve shared our wild garden style floral principles with literally hundreds of floral enthusiasts and continue to talk about what ingredients you can combine together to create.
About
Fierceblooms is a environmentally sustainable floral business. Guarded by our ancient horse chestnut, our canalside cutting garden grows herbs and flowers while the wild edges hold magical medicinal plants here for much longer. Our hand crafted wild garden style wreaths and florals capture the seasonal moment and are created exclusively with British everlasting and fresh flowers.
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Online Floral Classes
Sustainable Everlasting Autumn Wreath Class
Sustainable Seasonal Christmas Wreath Class
Fresh And Dried Sustainable Summer Wreath Class
Always, our fierce focus in our unique online classes is to share how we create our signature "Wild garden Style" floral designs using local, scented, seasonal and sustainable flowers.
In fact. we only ever use local, garden grown (in our case) British flowers. Our desire is in every class to inspire you to create your own planet friendly, environmentally conscious floral designs using ingredients that reflect your season, your flora and your locale.
Rather than a constraint, we believe creating with your own seasonal garden grown flowers encourages you to make floral art that truly embodies your own unique floral signature.
2023 will be our 4th season of live online classes. We look forward to continued conversations with sustainable floral enthusiasts from the far flung Scotland Highlands, down to Devon and Cornwall, across to Wales, and way beyond to North America, Australia, New Zealand. To hear more subscribe to our newsletter.
Online Flower Class Testimonial
The wreath class on Sunday was excellent. It was fascinating to watch your technique step by step, to hear you explain so carefully how passionate you are about sustainability, and always so cheerfully and with such an appreciation for nature.