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DIY Winter Hanging Basket
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Three Dogs in a Garden
(IC: blogger)
It takes just 15-20 minutes to make a hanging basket that will look great throughout the long months of cold and snow!
Altogether I have quite a few containers I like to fill each fall, so I try to forage as much as possible from the yard and the adjacent woodlot. I harvest responsibly, pruning branches carefully, so that I never damage the trees or shrubs I am cutting.
For a holiday look, I like to add some fruit and berries to my baskets for a little color. In the garden I forage rose hips, crabapples and euonymus berries. From the store, I purchase western red cedar, with its little brown rosettes, blue juniper berries and incense cedar, with its golden buds.
Here's how I put my hanging baskets together:
Step 3: Next it's on to the "fillers" that will give the arrangement the fullness you want.
At the end of step 3, the basket has filled out nicely.
Step 4: The final step is to add some colourful accents with assorted fruit and berries. If you don't have crabapples or rose hips, you can substitute with red winter berries, which are readily available at a variety of stores and nurseries. If you can't find winter berries or they're too expensive, faux-berries would work just as nicely.
As well as the two hanging baskets on the front porch, I also fill the wire baskets in the back garden.
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Published November 25th, 2016 12:48 PM
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Three Dogs in a Garden on Feb 17, 2017Thanks so much! I particularly like the baskets I made for my front porch. They've held up pretty well and make the drab winter months seem a bit greener. Over on the blog you can find some illuminated wreaths I made as well. That was another fun project. (See my archives for December 2016)
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Sal28430892 on Aug 08, 2017
love in new orleans
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