There’s nothing new about dressing houses for Christmas but wreaths seem to be on a new roll. In some streets there’s barely a bare door in sight.
Armed with florist scissors and surrounded by foliage, Jules Loong starts with spruce. She cuts and curves stems of the conifer until she has a ring of needles. Then she builds up layers: in go three pine cones; a dash of spinning gum; a hefty dose of berzillea.
Kate Hill Flowers, where Loong works, will sell hundreds of wreaths between now and Christmas. Other florists are the same. This year, the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Friends group is running not one but two wreath-making workshops. While these decorations started out as simple rings – symbolising eternity – things have gradually gotten more elaborate. Kate Hill Flowers has been known to make wreaths with everything from red baubles, cinnamon sticks and twigs to billy buttons, moss and the stems of cotton plants.
“We try to have as minimum impact as possible,” he says. But it does mean the plants have to be durable. “Paper daisies are perfect for wreaths because they hold their colour as they dry, gumnuts also dry incredibly well. Throughout the year we also collect things that flower earlier but dry well. Ozothamnus finished at the end of October but it looks so pretty that we started hoarding it for wreaths.
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