Twig And Flower Pot Garland

As promised, here are the super easy tutorial photos of the twig and flower pot garland {swag?} I made to hang over the door of the studio. This is one of those projects that you don’t want to over think.

It’s literally just 6-8 branches {from a maple tree?} and some flower pots all wired together. But I like step by step photos just as much as anyone else so I made sure and took a bunch as I was making the twig and flower pot garland.

I don’t know why, but there’s just something reassuring about seeing step by step photos when you’re making something for the first time. 🙂

Supplies 

• {6-8} 8 foot long branches ranging from 1 ¼” – ¼ round
• 30 terra cotta flower pots {2” – 4” in size}
• {110 ft} 18 gauge galvanized steel wire
• Garden twine
• 2 ounces white acrylic paint
• 2 screw hooks

First things first. Get yourself some branches. The length of the branches will totally depend on how long you want your garland to be. 

I made mine about 8 feet wide. I was going for a rambling, vine cottage vibe and I think I succeeded. The thickest branch was about 1 ½” inches round. You need a good, solid “support branch” so don’t skip on this.

The smallest branch was about ¼ round.

I used twine to hold the branches loosely together until I came up with shape length that I wanted.

Then I grabbed my crate of vintage terra cotta pots. 

New pots will work just as well. I prefer the old pots though as they are thicker and made better than the ones they sell in the big box stores these days. 

*yard sales and antique stores are great places to find old pots.

I decided to paint a few of the pots {with cheap white acrylic paint} for contrast. I did not spray the pots with anything. If a little paint flakes off over time… All the better.

Can you tell I was going for a more of a time worn look? 

Next up was wiring the pots to the garland. 

For this I used 18 gauge galvanized steel wire. I like using 18 gauge wire for projects as it’s flexible and easy to wrap around things and strong enough to handle 25 pounds.

First I ran the wire through the pot, gave it a twist, then using the wire I secured the terra cotta pot to the twig “frame”. I mostly wrapped the wire around all the branches, but a few times I only wrapped the wire around a single branch.

You’ll get the feel for how to secure the pots as you go.

Keep adding pots until it looks right to you. There is no set way to do this. 

I knew I wanted to leave the “ends” of the branches free of pots for a bit of a wispy look so I left the ends bare.

In the end I used about 30 pots for my 8 foot garland. {Keeping in mind only about 5 feet of the garland had pots on it}. 

I mostly used 3” wide pots. There were a handful of 2” pots as well as 4” pots.

I was going to wait and add some fairy lights for Christmas, but now I think I want to weave a set or two in for a little summer magic.

To hang the garland my husband simply screwed two hooks into the side of the house and hung the twig and flower pot garland. I tucked in a few extra smaller twigs after the garland was hung 

This whole project took me about 2 hours from start to finish. 🙂 

~Mavis