Make Your Own Fresh Lavender Wreath // harvesting and creating with fresh lavender 

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I used Royal Velvet, it is a beautiful choice for a wreath 🌿

@@okanaganlavenderherbfarm1994 thank you for responding so quickly.

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Wonderful thought!

Sounds like a lovely way to finish your wreath 🌿

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Have fun! Your place sounds lovely 🍃

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I hope you will have fun creating a wreath next season 🌿

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Have fun making your wreath 💚

Thank you so much, I hope you enjoy creating a wreath 🌿

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I hope you have fun making your wreath 💚

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Thanks for letting us know, Malika!

I do my wreaths with all sorts of herbs, I'm sure your French lavender will turn out lovely ☺️

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From start to finish with no interruptions, assembling a wreath takes about one hour. That doesn't include cutting the blooms or making the wreath base 🌿

What state are you in? I believe I have hidcote lavender. Hopefully it’s good for this wreath.

@@savvyvenus we are a Canadian farm. You can certainly use Hidcote, I just find it is very fragile so be careful where you hang it.

If you cut the lavender when it is half open, it will last for ages. If you cut it too late, it will definitely disintegrate 💚

@@okanaganlavenderherbfarm1994 I was looking forward to it, but the five plants I put in the ground that day died 3 days later.

@@ritagjefle3995 wreaths are so time consuming, I only make them for friends!

I usually make my wreath base the size of a dinner plate. The wreath will be quite a bit larger than that when completed. Have fun 🌿

This is quite unusual 🤔 Lavender is so floriferous generally! A few questions might solve the issue 🤓 firstly, what variety are you growing (and in what country/area)? Secondly, are you fertilising it? 🤔 Lavender THRIVES on poor soils and fertilisers are the number one cause of lots of foliage, and no flowers. Some people say climate is also an issue since it’s a Mediterranean plant, but I live in Scotland where the spring, autumn and winter are constant rain, sleet and snow 😂🤦🏼‍♀️ My lavender thrives regardless. The summers here are very long and quite hot so it balances out. Usually it’s fertilising that is the issue so don’t give it any at all. If you’re not fertilising, it may be that your soil is just too nutritious (though again, I’d be dubious because I garden on heavy clay which is extremely nutritious and my lavender thrives 🤔). The other cause could be not enough sunlight hours 🤔 Although in Scotland, we have pretty much Alaska-level daylight hours in the winter, we also have very long summer hours. Despite a very long and dark winter, until December I had blooms 😂🤦🏼‍♀️ If you have a full sun spot in your garden, put the lavender there if it isn’t already. Lastly, try being “mean” with cutting it back. I do two “big prunes” a year: once in the late autumn to tidy up the plants before winter (and to allow air circulation since it will be wet months ahead) and then again in the spring - just before it gets going. It encourages more blooms! Cut back HARD - trust me, it will grow back! 🤓 Lavender aren’t long lived, so to prevent them getting too woody, cut back as hard as you can without going too far into the woody base. This keeps the shoots young and green for longer! 💖 I hope those things help!

I love to use lavender with sturdy stems that can withstand the twine pulling at them. Royal Velvet is always lovely, it dries such a deep blue 💙

@@okanaganlavenderherbfarm1994 thank you.

We try to do our wreaths when the lavender flowers are 1/2 open, that is the perfect stage for a wreath 🌿

@@okanaganlavenderherbfarm1994 Okay! Yup mine was too early! I will try to make it again! Thank you!

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I love Folgate, but it makes a very fragile wreath. I often make mind with Royal Velvet or just a lavender with a sturdy stem 🌿

Those garden scissors come from Lee Valley Tools, they have a great website 😊

I do that often 🌿 the stems splay out and the look is so organic. Just don't crowd them so they can dry properly. Too many stems can lead to mildew.

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@@okanaganlavenderherbfarm1994 if you don’t mind me asking what zone are you in

@@okanaganlavenderherbfarm1994 your yard is beautiful with all those lavender, may I ask what kind you have please

We are zone 5 in the interior of British Columbia. We have 60 Lavenders in our collection 🌿

This wreath was made with Royal Velvet. It has really sturdy flower heads when it dries.

Some lavender is very fragile when it dries, Royal Velvet wreaths will last for years if they are kept out of sunlight 🌞

@@okanaganlavenderherbfarm1994 Thanks so much for the reply; I actually learned so much from your videos. I don’t grow Royal Velvet as it’s been difficult to get. Would you recommend any other lavender for wreath making?

@@JosephineWaltz I would dry different lavenders first to see which ones are not fragile when dried. Then I would use the best from what you grow 😊

I used Royal Velvet to do this wreath Tim, the flowers are very sturdy when dried.

I think that would be fine with dried lavender, but not with fresh 🌿

Thank you for answering this question at the end of the video! And thank you for the hair dryer tips! Never heard that before!❤

Hi Linda, this method of making a wreath needs fresh lavender in order for it to be malleable enough to follow the circle of the base. That being said, your fresh lavender does need to be dry, not wet from a sprinkler or rain which could cause a musty smell to develop. Hope this helps!

A two year old plant should give enough for one wreath. A three year old might supply two 🌿

Royal Velvet, it is a beautiful choice for a wreath as the flower heads are very sturdy 🌿

I love to use Royal Velvet for my wreaths, it has such a sturdy flower head.