Cotehele Christmas Garland

The garland is beautiful, especially the purple flowers. I assume they have been dried, but have retained their colour wonderfully. Good use of Honesty seed pods.

It must have taken ages to do this, really beautiful, a great choice of materials...

I think it's beautiful. I love the mauve and silvery shades together. Much nicer than the garish reds you usually see at Christmastime :)

Such a work of Art,Chris,and so much love and dedication has clearly gone into them..Like Hywel,I prefer these colours to the usual reds..a refreshing change..thank you for sharing x

Thank you all for your lovely comments.
I too really like the colours used. To me the whole thing has a bridal look which is soft and delicate.

Beautiful love it!

How pretty that is ... I wonder how many hours of work went into making it. Thanks for showing these lovely photos Chris.

So pretty! A work of art and love.

The Hydrangea one does look "possible". We were at The Secret Garden in Cornwall once when they were collecting the heads for drying. I tried the process and the end result was quite good. Forgot to do so this year! So much for good intentions.

Have to confess: I don't like the colours mauve/purple. We have some azaleas that are the latter, but very few!!!!

Christmas colours: red, green and gold!(I'm very common!!)

At home Eirlys I too go for reds and greens and don't intend to alter things now!!

If I return next year to see the garland it will be interesting to see which colours they choose.

Thanks for your kind comment.

The garlands are beautiful, but I also am a red, green and white afficianado! It doesn't need to look garish as long as there is a good strong green base. Green with a bit of gold is lovely, too. Those floral decorations are lovely, though.

Very impressive, the honesty almost looks like mother of pearl.