Updating Door Wreath

My artificial berry door wreath updated with cedar boughs. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

“Love your grapevine wreath ideas. I have an old fake berry wreath my mother gave me. How can I update that artificial wreath? It’s not a grapevine….” Cindy

Updating Door Wreath

Hi Cindy, I have a couple of favorite non-grapevine wreaths as well. The one I see the most is the wreath on my front door which has a variety of fake burgundy to yellow berries. I saw similar artificial berry wreaths at our local craft store.

To customize it, I kept things simple by adding a little bee skep ornament in the center and a homemade sign to celebrate my bees. I snuck in a few dried wild indigo leaves, those are the grey ones. Which reminds me, most have fallen out by now so I need to pick up a few more the next time I go walking.

I keep this wreath simple because the action of opening and closing the front door can easily knock things I weave into it.

Cedar trees produce pretty blue berries in the fall. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

The easiest addition, though, by far was adding fresh cedar boughs with blue berries. I cut several the same length and pushed them in a circle around the artificial door wreath. Having something fresh and contrasting easily and quickly nicely updated the door wreath.

Fresh cedar boughs add color add life to my artificial door wreath. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Curious to see how these cedar boughs would change my large bluebird wall wreath, I snuck a few cedar tree boughs into that grapevine wreath.

The blue berries on the cedar boughs help to balance the brightness of the orange pyracantha berries. Can you tell I love updating the wreaths with interesting shapes and colors?

Cedar boughs with blue berries in my main entrance grapevine wreath. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

The more I add to this large grapevine wreath, the more my bluebird painted gourd seems to stand out. The blue accents of the cedar bough berries pulled it all together.

Good thing it’s snowing, I think I may be running out of space to add more to the grapevine wreath.

Blue berry cedar boughs mixed in with other dried flowers in my grapevine wreath. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Once the cedar dries out, the boughs will retain some of their green color.

You should be able to find cedar boughs in your own backyard. This time of year, fresh wreaths will also soon be available. You could cut evergreens out of those wreaths if you can’t find any in your own garden.

Charlotte