That wreath is just STUNNING! Thanks for sharing that. :)
I particularly love the touch of blue in it.
One of my dearest friends and my hiking companion virtually every weekend for a couple of years (we did about 1,500 miles together), got lost in a snowstorm & died in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 2005. It took a year to find/recover him. I was crushed, more than I can describe - the ‘sharp edges’ of losing him have dulled a lot, but the grief still lingers.
Anyway, he is in a Vet’s cemetery about 45 minutes away. He loved the outdoors, nature, lived a simple, frugal, unpretentious life. For the first 5 years or so, I made him a Christmas wreath every year .... red nandina berries, running cedar (our woods are loaded with it), cedar (especially with blue berries - lots of that, too), pine, maybe some cones .... they turned out really nice. I would get the forms/stand at AC Moore (which is now Michael’s). The first one was tough, but I got pretty good at making them. After NEEDING to go see/talk to him after he ‘came home’ for the first couple of years, I don’t need to go to the cemetery any more like I used to, but I think of him all the time.
From my experience, I can highly recommend making wreaths out of things you find in the yard/fields/nearby woods - beautiful, meaningful & satisfying. Also, we have a book showing the wreaths that decorate Williamsburg & instructions for making a basic wreath. These wreaths are made from naturals (no ‘fake’ anything in Colonial days!), including a lot of fruit - they’re gorgeous. There is one that is mostly pine cones & seed pods ... so beautiful - gave my niece the book for that wreath alone. I think she has on her property what it would take to make it.
For those not familiar with the Colonial Williamsburg decorations, you can scroll through & see many of them here:
https://www.qwant.com/?client=ext-firefox-sb&t=images&q=colonial+williamsburg+wreaths