Turn Simple Filler Flowers Into Your New Favorite Spring Wreath

Few things bring more joy to a home than spring door decor ideas to welcome the warm weather, especially after a particularly long, cold winter or even just a difficult day at work. It's surprisingly easy to craft your own friendly greeting. Cut flower bouquets typically feature a mix of filler flowers — or sometimes filler foliage — and statement blooms. While the latter look great in a vase, the filler flowers are sometimes hard to squish in. Instead, pull them from the main bouquet, group them into mini bouquets, and thread them into a wreath frame, creating an attractive circular spray that you can mount on your door in place of a store-bought plastic wreath. It's unique, stunning, and eco-friendly.

First up, choose a wire wreath frame in the size you prefer. A two-pack of Sumind 8 Inch Green Wire Wreath Frames costs about $8, while a three-pack of Stark Star 14 Inch Wire Wreath Frames costs about $13. Remember, the larger the wreath, the more flowers you'll need to hide it. If you don't already have a bouquet ready to pull apart, pay your favorite florist a visit and pick up a few stems of filler flowers. Common spring options include honesty (Lunaria annua) seed pods, silvery and long-lasting cardoon leaves, lacy Orlaya, that feathery florist's favorite, statice (Limonium), or even grains like wheat, oats and barley. You'll need something to bind your bouquets, so pick up a Glamfields Floral Stem Arrangement Kit with Green Floral Tape, 1 Cutter, and 1 Roll of 22 Gauge Flexible Floral Wire for about $7. Or simply use some strong rubber bands.

Ready to craft this beautiful front door idea for a cozy cottage-style home? Spread your filler flower out on your workspace so you can take stock of how many stems you have. (If you have more than one species of filler flower, sort them into related bundles.) Once you know how many stems you have, divide the total number by two or three and create that many bundles — in other words, each bundle should have two or three stems each. It's time to create a whole lot of mini bouquets. If you're using floral wire, cut small lengths and twist them around the stems of the individual flowers in each bundle to secure them together. If you're using a rubber band, slide it up over one of the fattest stems, wrap it around the mini bouquet, and slide it back over the original stem.

Wire your mini bouquets into the wreath frame horizontally but at a slight angle so they overlap one another as you move around the frame. Cover the stems of the first mini bouquet with the filler foliage of the next bouquet you add. Now, all that's left is to hang your bouquet in the location of your choice, like your front door, above the mantle, or in your dining room. Bonus: If you leave the wreath in place long enough, out of the sun, and in dry weather, the florals might dry with their original hues relatively intact. When the season is over, store the wreath in an airtight container ready to put up again next spring.

If you don't have ready access to an affordable florist and even your supermarket has a poor selection of cut flowers, explore some gorgeous wreath alternatives that will bring modern charm to your front door. If you have a large property or access to a wild area where you can forage responsibly, gather your favorite spring foliage and flowers yourself. You could also ask neighbors or nearby family members if they need someone to tidy their overgrown garden for the price of some cut flowers to take home. If you have a green thumb, why not grow your own filler flowers? Native wildflowers, bunny tail grass (Lagurus ovatus), mint, and rambler rose (use the delicate foliage), to name just a few, are abundant in spring and sturdy enough to use in a wreath. You could even add live growing, albeit small, plants if you wrap the root balls in damp moss.

To dive even deeper into your Mother Nature era, weave moss, grass stems and leaves, or real branches together to make your wreath form — or buy a pre-made version, like this four-pack of Worown 12 Inch Natural Grapevine Wreaths for about $25. Play around with covering just a portion of the form with your mini filler flower bouquets for something more understated. Add simple adornments like bows made from ribbons or interspersed with carefully selected dried flowers and even high-quality artificial flowers made from silk or paper rather than plastic. For example, you can get four Ammyoo Silk Cherry Blossom Branches in Light Pink for about $29.