Easy DIY Floral Garland

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Making beautiful, flowery swags is much more simple than you think! Try our easy way to make a DIY floral garland.

DIY Floral Swag Garland

I went to an event a few years back that had the most beautiful floral garlands draped everywhere.

They made such an impression on me — I loved that there were flowers everywhere but not necessarily in vases, in the usual arrangements.

They smelled like heaven, too.

Being the nosy DIYer that I am, I snuck a moment to look at their construction and realized that they wouldn’t be too hard to make.

So long story short, we chose some of our favorite florals and figured out how to make DIY floral garlands so that we could teach you too!

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DIY Floral Swag Garland

Tips to Know for DIY Floral Arranging

I’ve discovered through many DIY events and workshops that doing your own flowers for holidays, parties, and events can save you a substantial amount of money!

There’s also something so lovely about working with flowers, especially once you get the hang of a few simple basic skills and tricks.

Our archives have a few really great posts that are perfect primers for doing your own flower arrangements, so I took a moment to pull those out and link here.

I’d recommend skimming through them to build your DIY floral arranging knowledge, and even pinning the ones that really work well for you!

There are also a exclusive few floral projects in my book, The Happy Home, that you won’t find on the blog! I particularly love the recipe for an at-home nontoxic floral preserver.

Floral Projects You Can Do Yourself

Can’t get enough of working with flowers? Here is some eye candy and some new projects to add to your list:

DIY Floral Swag Garland

Supplies You’ll Need

The DIY floral garlands take fairly minimal supplies, which is great news! Aside from the flowers, you might already have what you need.

Your choice of florals. We used peonies, ranunculus, carnations, and billy balls. I recommend hitting the floral section of Trader Joe’s to get some really lovely and affordable blooms!

Greenery with a sturdy center branch or stem. We used ruscus israeli. But you might even have something in your yard that you could trim a few branches of!

Floral wire. Floral wire is green in color so that it becomes camouflaged among flower stems. It also has a nice thick gauge to support heavier blooms.

Floral tape. If you haven’t worked with floral tape, you’ll find it to be stretchy and very sticky. It’s great for wrapping around stems to keep them together. Also great for making bouttonieres!

Make Time: 10 Minutes per foot of garland

DIY Floral Swag Garland
DIY Floral Swag Garland
  1. Start with your greenery. Choose a few pieces that have a sturdy center branch or stem and lay them out in a line. Cut a few lengths of floral wire, each about 6″. Start to wire the greenery together by winding the wire around the center branches of two adjacent pieces. Be sure to wire them together in a place where each branch is strong enough to hold its own weight and not snap.
  2. Keep wiring until your garland is your desired length.
  3. Now comes the fun part! Choose your florals and start embellishing the garland. For heavier florals, trim all of the leaves and cut the stem to about 3 inches. Then wire the stem to a sturdy part of the garland. For lighter pieces, you can probably trim the stem and then use floral tape instead of wire.
  4. Continue embellishing with florals until it’s to your liking.
  5. Cut two pieces of floral wire, each about 6″. Wire one to each end of the garland and twist it around itself to create a loop. Use these loops to make hanging the garland easier.
DIY Floral Swag Garland

Where to Display Your DIY Floral Garland

Isn’t it just lovely? I could see these in so many places — at weddings, showers, spring parties, over a door, as photo backdrops, or even laid down the center of a dinner table.

I found that these will last without wilting for a little more than a day, and even longer if you are able to refrigerate the garland after you make it.

If you’d like to make it last longer you could always attach a floral water tubes to each of the flowers you use.

Have fun! xoxo

DIY Floral Swag Garland
DIY Floral Swag Garland

DIY Floral Garland

Yield: DIY Floral Garland
Active Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Intermediate
Estimated Cost: $30

Making beautiful, flowery swags is much more simple than you think! Try our easy way to make a DIY floral garland.

Materials

  • Florals
  • Sturdy branches of greenery
  • Floral wire
  • Floral tape

Tools

  • Scissors or shears

Instructions

  1. Start with your greenery. Choose a few pieces that have a sturdy center branch or stem and lay them out in a line. Cut a few lengths of floral wire, each about 6". Start to wire the greenery together by winding the wire around the center branches of two adjacent pieces. Be sure to wire them together in a place where each branch is strong enough to hold its own weight and not snap.
  2. Keep wiring until your garland is your desired length.
  3. Now comes the fun part! Choose your florals and start embellishing the garland. For heavier florals, trim all of the leaves and cut the stem to about 3 inches. Then wire the stem to a sturdy part of the garland. For lighter pieces, you can probably trim the stem and then use floral tape instead of wire.
  4. Continue embellishing with florals until it's to your liking.
  5. Cut two pieces of floral wire, each about 6". Wire one to each end of the garland and twist it around itself to create a loop. Use these loops to make hanging the garland easier.

Notes

Isn't it just lovely? I could see these in so many places -- at weddings, showers, spring parties, over a door, as photo backdrops, or even laid down the center of a dinner table.

I found that these will last without wilting for a little more than a day, and even longer if you are able to refrigerate the garland after you make it.

If you'd like to make it last longer you could always attach a floral water tubes to each of the flowers you use.

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