My Sweetgum Wreath

A couple weeks ago Skeeter mentioned my sweet gum wreath in her post, (click here) well it got me to thinking.....humm, maybe this is more than a craft post. So here it is, this is the first row of sweet gums glued together. Boy! Am I ever grateful for the big box of sweet gum Skeeter sent me. We here in New England do not have too many of these trees. I did a little research on them and found there is a Northern Sweet gum tree that survives my zone, it takes mayyyyybe....20 to 25 years to flower and/or produce sweet gum balls! Okay, so I need something quicker.

I still enjoy these mature sweet gum as if they are my own, thank-you Skeeter.

Here we see a second row of sweet gum and a tossed around idea of what direction to go to next.

Didn't quite work. I had left the stems for in the middle of the wreath and felt I needed to do something with them....but the geese are not it!

Well, this is closer. Oh, I forgot to say, I'd left the stems in a pinwheel pattern on the outskirts of my wreath but decided to trim them. The wreath looked more like a ginormous spider.

I finally settled on something from in the garden, my very own Hydrangea. It is perfect for the delicate flowers that are needed for the center of my wreath.

And my supply of flower blossoms? Something I cut last August, AND had a wonderful time arranging!

Some purchased statice and a few straw flowers, this is a pride and joy.....

and for the time being, on my bedroom door,

pink and white tulle with a small satin ribbon,

isn't Mother Nature wonderful?

umm, not so much in the storms though. In The Garden