herbs garland

The kitchen is often overlooked when it comes to making gifts but a garland of dried herbs on a gnarled twig would give a kitchen a fresh country look.

Materials

Preparation

1 Trim the dried material to make short, workable pieces.

2 Wire pieces of grass, sage and rosemary in to small bunches.

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3 Wire wheat heads and bay leaves separately in twos and threes.

4 Wire the ribbon in small bows.

5 Bind all the wires with stem binding.

Working the design

6 Aiming for a fairly loose, rustic style, insert the wired bunches of grass, sage, rosemary and wheat heads in the garland. Make all the herbs and grasses flow in the same direction.

7 Secure the herbs to the garland with wire and stem binding.

8 Continue round the garland leaving roughly tins (5cm) between each group of herbs.

9 Fill in with the wired bay leaves and tuck in wired ribbon bows to finish.

Garlands are particularly welcome at Christmas time, when their bright colours bring a note of gaiety to the festivities.

When making a Christmas wreath, it would be quite easy to tuck some sweet-smelling herbs among the holly and the ivy and let them add their fragrance to the house.

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