How to make a topiary

Topiaries have a special appeal, whether large or small, an impact a sophisticated element in an decorating scheme.

 

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YOU WILL NEED:

Floral foam ball {You could also use a styrofoam ball or painted polystyrene ball)
Stick from your garden
Faux boxwood plant (buy at your local nursery or home decor store) 
Cute pot or planter
Floral foam for inside your container
Moss
Dremel Hot glue gun

 

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HERE'S HOW:

1. Put some floral foam down into the bottom of your container.  I had my foam stop just shy of the rim of my pot.

2. Cut the stick to the desired length and push it into the centre of your foam.  Take your stick back out of the hole you just made and put a few drops of hot glue down into your hole.  Quickly put your stick back into the hole in your foam and hold in place until the glue is set.  For good measure you can also put a little bit of hot glue around the stick at the top of the foam to make sure that the stick is really secure.

3. Take your foam ball and push it down onto the top of your stick.  You will be left with a foam ball lollipop!

4. From the faux boxwood plant cut off little pieces.  You need a little bit off stem so you can push it down into the floral foam enough for it to stay.  You could cut longer pieces depending how far out of the foam you want your stem to stick out/up.

5. Start poking your little stems one by one into your foam ball. Warning: this part does take a while to do! Pack those little stems in as tightly as you can so that when you are finished you won't be able to see the ball underneath. And pretty soon you will have something that is starting to resemble a topiary.

6. Pull apart the moss into little chunks.  Put some hot glue on the top of the floral foam you have in your container and very carefully press your moss down onto the glue.

7. I used the tip of a knife to very gently press the moss where I wanted it to go.  Keep gluing down little pieces of moss until you can't see any floral foam anymore.  I used the least amount of moss that I could manage because I didn't want it to stick up out of the pot that much.

You can tie a little ribbon onto your stick or just leave it as is.  And there you have it.  Your very own boxwood topiary!!