{"id":1890,"date":"2014-10-02T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T13:08:25","slug":"all-natural-wreath-decorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/2014\/10\/all-natural-wreath-decorations\/","title":{"rendered":"All Natural Wreath Decorations"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re well underway in the 2015 holiday wreath sale<\/a>.\u00a0 That means we\u2019re busily gathering materials \u2013 in fact we started collecting some things months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

We use all kinds of things to decorate our all-natural holiday wreaths.\u00a0 Sure, we have some old standbys like pine cones, but every year we\u2019re surprised by someone bringing in materials we haven\u2019t used before, and we often can\u2019t get enough! \u00a0We love getting new materials to try! \u00a0There\u2019s an almost-endless supply of local plant materials if you look with a creative eye.\u00a0 To get you started, here\u2019s an A to Z list of wreath decorations ideas.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

What can you<\/em> collect and get to us by mid-November?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"pineA<\/strong>corns; apples, sliced & dried; artemisia, dried
\nB<\/strong>aby\u2019s breath; bay leaves
\nC<\/strong>ones from all sizes & types of pine, spruce & fir
\nD<\/strong>ried flowers of almost any type
\n\"feather\"E<\/strong>ucalyptus leaves, dried
\nF<\/strong>ir cones; feathers
\nG<\/strong>rasses and their seed heads (shake to remove the seeds); globe amaranth flowers, dried; gourds, small, dried
\nH<\/strong>ydrangea flower heads, dried; holly branches
\nI<\/strong>ndian corn, tiny;
\nJ<\/strong>uniper branches
\n\"love-in-a-mist
\nK<\/strong>alanchoe flowers, dried; kiwis, dried
\nL<\/strong>ocust seed pods; beautiful dried leaves from trees & shrubs; lavender, dried
\n\"orange
\nM<\/strong>oney plant seed pods (also called silver dollar, honesty plant, lunaria, and other names); milkweed seed pods
\nN<\/strong>igella seed heads (also called love-in-a-mist)
\nO<\/strong>strich fern spore stems; oregano seed heads, dried; orange slices, dried
\n\"rose\"
\nP<\/strong>early everlasting, dried; peppers, red & dried (think chilies, banana peppers, cherry peppers)
\nQ<\/strong>ueen Anne\u2019s lace, dried
\nR<\/strong>oses, dried; rose hips; red twig dogwood; Russian statice
\nS<\/strong>tatice; Siberian iris seed pods; straw flowers
\nT<\/strong>easel; thistle; tansy flower heads, dried; twigs from curly or other interestingly-shaped plants
\nU<\/strong>nusual flowers, seeds, plants, or twigs \u2013 all dried
\nV<\/strong>ines with interesting shapes, with or without dried leaves, flowers, or berries
\nW<\/strong>interberry branches with fruit; wheat (shake to remove seeds)
\n\"golden
\nX<\/strong>traordinary, xceptional, or xciting natural items you notice (I took some spelling liberties)
\nY<\/strong>arrow, particularly brightly colored, dried; yellow twig dogwood
\nZ<\/strong>innia flowers, dried<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re well underway in the 2015 holiday wreath sale.\u00a0 That means we\u2019re busily gathering materials \u2013 in fact we started collecting some things months ago. We use all kinds of things to decorate our all-natural holiday wreaths.\u00a0 Sure, we have some old standbys like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[158,159,160,93],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","tag-sale","tag-wreath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}