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    Home » DIY Projects

    How to Make a Flower Garland DIY

    by Patti Estep · Jun 1, 2025

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    Long outdoor table runner garland made from fresh flowers.
    Center of a flower garland on a table over an image of the entire table.

    Learn how to make a flower garland from your own garden flowers that you can use on a table as a centerpiece, or as hanging decor for your next celebration.

    Center of fresh flower garland

    If you have a special outdoor occasion and access to fresh flowers and other plant materials, you will love creating this fresh flower garland. 

    They would be perfect for a bridal shower or a special celebration such as a wedding. You could use them as wedding garlands down the aisle of a church. However, I'm just using this one as a floral table runner that runs the length of the table on our patio.

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    Basket of flower material and pruners and floral wire.

    Flower Garland Supplies

    • Flowers, herbs, branches from shrubs, even store bought bouquets
    • Scissors or pruners
    • Floral paddle wire
    Large bunch of chocolate peppermint mint.

    It's helpful but not totally necessary to have a base plant to use as filler. I had a bunch of wayward mint growing wild after we had a large shrub removed. This mint was perfect for the base of my garland.

    You can use more than one plant material, such as branches of other shrubs or even a long piece of rope.

    Using floral wire to wrap around plant material

    How to Make a Flower Garland

    Step 1. Start by wrapping the stems of some of your base material and a flower together with floral wire.

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    Adding a second group of flower material to the garland using a wire paddle.

    Step 2. Continue adding more flowers and branches on top and sides, wrapping with more wire as you go.

    Adding flowers to the garland with a wire paddle.

    Step 3. Move down a little to the right and add different flower blooms, branches, and decorative seed pods on top, covering the wire from the previous group. Add in more base material as you go.

    Center section of the fresh flower garland.

    Step 4. When you come to the center, you may want to build up extra flowers for a focal point. These purple coneflowers were perfect for the focal center. This would be gorgeous in late spring with peonies in the center.

    Image showing the tying off of the floral wire.

    Step 5. When you get to the end, you can tie off the wire by looping it through itself and pulling it tight. Then use a couple of larger flowers to hide the wire.

    Fresh flowers made into a garland

    This flower garland looks great as a centerpiece for our patio table. It should stay looking nice for a good 5 hours, depending on the heat and humidity.

    If you want to make it earlier in the day for an evening event, mist the entire piece, place it in a large plastic bag, such as a dry cleaner bag, and keep it somewhere cool, like a basement or garage.

    Keep in mind that this fresh flower garland works best with flowers that hold up once picked. Mophead hydrangeas, while beautiful, don't work as well. However, their paniculata (i.e. Limelight) cousins hold up great.

    On a final note, you could make this with artificial or faux flowers, but that would cost more, and in my opinion, it wouldn't be quite as nice as fresh from the garden.

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    Fresh flower garland on table
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    How to Make a Flower Garland

    This diy flower garland tutorial will show you how to create a beautiful garland centerpiece or table runner with flowers from your garden.
    Prep Time15 minutes mins
    Active Time30 minutes mins
    Total Time45 minutes mins
    Course: Flower Crafts/Decor
    Yield: 1
    Cost: $3-$5

    Equipment

    • Scissors
    • Pruners

    Materials

    • Flowers
    • Herbs and foliage for the base
    • Floral wire paddle or twine

    Instructions

    • Gather flowers, herbs, and other pretty foliage from the garden.
    • Make a bunch with some herbs or greenery and a couple of flowers
    • Wrap the ends with floral stems wire, but do not cut the wire from the paddle.
    • Instead, add more flowers and branches on top, and sides, wrapping with more wire as you go.
    • Move down a little to the right and add different flowers, branches, and decorative seed pods on top, covering the wire from the previous group. Add in more base material as you go.
    • When you come to the center you may want to build up extra flowers for a focal point. Mine has pretty purple coneflowers in the center.
    • When you get to the end you can tie off the wire by looping it through itself and pulling it tight.
    • Then stick in a couple of larger flowers to hide the wire.

    Notes

    Depending on the heat and humidity this garland should last about 5 hours.
    You can mist it and place it in a large plastic bag and store it in a cool place such as a basement in the morning for an evening event.
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    Fresh flower garland in the center of a long outdoor table.
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    About Patti Estep

    Patti is the creator of Hearth and Vine, a home and garden blog filled with projects to inspire your creative side. She loves crafting, gardening, decorating and entertaining at her home in Pennsylvania. When she is not working on a project at home or searching for treasures at nurseries and thrift stores with her girlfriends, you’ll probably find her with family and friends, at a restaurant, or home party enjoying new and different food adventures.

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    1. Carole West

      August 05, 2019 at 11:01 am

      Patti I love everything this, it's so elegant. Looks like lemon leaf, aka Salal? I love that and you can dry it also. It will curl and it looks so neat. In my floral shop days we use to dry them, spay gold and use in holiday wreaths.

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      • Patti Estep

        August 05, 2019 at 11:52 am

        Thanks Carole. I do think lemon leaf or magnolia would be beautiful and more durable. Plus I love your holiday idea about using gold spray to dress it up.

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