Things Needed
Tip
When you exhibit a Turkish boxwood wreath on an outside door , localize it on a door that has an overhead awning or a porch roof to protect it from the elements . Do not hang a boxwood garland over a hearth , as it will dry out too much . you could find boxwood shrubs in the garden section of most home improvement and hardware stores or wherever landscaping plant are sell . Have the flowered wreath handy when you cut the branch from the boxwood shrub so you will get it on that you have enough cuttings to make a thick wreath . Instead of gunny , you may use a thick ribbon , a piece of muslin or any other sort of fabric that matches your holiday decor color schema . Place a white mainsheet or other material on the mesa when you trim the boxwood shrub to make the garland cuttings . That manner , if any bugs fawn out , you may easily address with them . Sterilize the pruning shears before and after cutting . This prevents the shears from carrying any flora diseases from one plant to the next .
Warning
habituate cautiousness when working with floral telegram to avoid dig yourself . Cotton mitt may supply added protection . work out on an outside table when making the cut to debar out-of-door bugs getting inside the house .
box shrub cuttings make a vibrant green vacation chaplet , but it can fade quickly and turn to a sensationalistic - brown if you do n’t keep up the clipping before using them foryour chaplet . One preservation method acting begins with surcharge the box cutting for up to two weeks before letting them dry out for three to five week before using them . But you also have a quick option for keep a wreath that ’s already made .
Preserving an Existing Wreath
Step 1
Lay the cardboard on an outside mesa or the ground to protect the airfoil on which you be after to work .
Step 2
Set the box wreath grimace - down on the cardboard . retain the leafage sealant about 6 to 8 inches from the garland as you spray the coronal . Make certain that all the leaves and stems get cover with the sealer . allow the garland thoroughly wry to the soupcon .
Step 3
sour the wreath over and iterate spray it until it ’s fully covered with the foliation sealant .
Step 4
Store in a flat lidded box until the next vacation season rove around .
Preserving Boxwood Cuttings
hack offset from the boxwood shrub with pruning shears . Only blue-ribbon branches with healthy , vibrant folio , avoiding branches with yellowed or dead leaves . Make the cutting between 6 to 8 inch long .
pluck the leaves from the bottom of the cut radical until you have approximately a 2 - inch stem . Lightly knock the cut stem death with the mallet . This helps the industrial plant root word sop up the liquid mixed bag that aids in its saving .
Weigh the Turkish boxwood branch on a food for thought scale to learn how many ounce the bush press . You call for this frame because one of the factor of the saving liquid uses the weighting of the shrub arm as a component of the formula .
cadence 1 ounce of glycerol for every Panthera uncia of shrubs and place it into a separate glass bowl .
Step 5
Mix 1 teaspoonful of green dye into 1/2 cup of spicy water and set it aside . add together 1 cup of glycerin to the glass bowling ball and pour the dye and water mixture into the container with the glycerin . Swirl the mixture until the glycerine fully dissolves . Add the remaining glycerin from the first glass bowl to the dye mixture in a ratio of 2 role of glycerol to 1 part of body of water .
Step 6
permit the salmagundi thoroughly cool before add the stems to it . Let the stems ride in the smorgasbord for two week or until the bush stems soak it all up . Remove them from the solvent and place them in an area where they will remain undisturbed as they dry out for the next three to five calendar week .
Making the Wreath
Arrange the shrub clipping into a boxwood wreath after dry . Cut several piece of the flowered wire into 3- to 4 - inch lengths , making them into U - physique . set up them by .
act upon from the other edges of the wreath in , tying the boxwood cutting to the floral lei with the U - shaped wire . Add additional cutting , keeping the stems look the same direction , while covering the stems antecedently tied with the summit of the newly added thinning . Work entirely around the wreath until the wire is wholly cover with newspaper clipping . Trim any odd ends that sting out and discard .
switch off a piece of burlap about 3 1/2 to 4 feet long and about 6 inches across-the-board . Thread the burlap through the top of the garland to create a arc that you piece into the wall or on the door . salt away your lei in a flat loge with a hat to use next time of year .
