 Get out those tomato cages in the dead of winter! Why? It will be used upside down to create a festive floral tree. Christmas greens, ivy or smilax garland wind around the inverted tomato cage, while small glass vases of seasonal flowers hang from its wire branches.
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Materials:
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- 1 Medium sized tomato cage
- 8 long branches of Christmas greens or 6-feet of ivy or 6-feet of smilax garland
- 6 small glass vases
- 1 to 3 flowers for each small vase. Roses, rhubrum lilies, lisianthus, carnations, white iris and many more varieties can be used. (Jill used 12 red roses and 2 rhubrum lilies and 2 white freesia and Christmas greenery.)
- 1 large rubberband
- 3 yards of decorative ribbon, raffia or cording (Jill used gold cording)
- Clippers, scissors and floral preservative
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Step 1 - Turn the tomato cage upside down. Bend the wire feet of the cage towards the center of the cage to make a cone shape. Use a large rubberband towards the end of the wire feet to fasten them together.
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Step 2 - Wind your greenery of choice up and down and around the cage.
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Step 3 - Tie 1-foot of decorative ribbon onto each small vase. Now tie each vase sporadically onto the tomato cage.
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Step 4 - Fill the vases with water that has been treated with floral preservative and then fill them with short cut flowers.
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Step 5 - Lastly, cover the rubberband at the top of the cage, by tying a bow of decorative ribbon around it.
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Note - For appeal all year long, make this floral tree with seasonal flowers and vines.
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