Boho Foraged Dried Floral Christmas Tree

This dried flower Christmas tree is made almost entirely from grasses, flowers, and thistles I foraged on walks near our home. It’s one of the cheapest trees I’ve ever made, and it’s based on my pampas Christmas tree tutorial, with more textures and dried florals added.

Boho foraged dried floral Christmas tree

This tree is definitely one of the cheapest trees I have ever made. Who doesn’t love that? I know some of you aren’t as lucky as I am to find your materials out in nature, though. So here are the same or similar dried florals.

Materials used to make this unique Christmas tree

• different grasses (examples: same reed grass as mine, white pampas grass, and white bunny tail grass)
• dried thistles
• dried flowers (for example: dried Scabiosa, dried button flowers, dried protea stems, dried hydrangeas, and dried roses)
• fairy lights
• optional crafting feathers (Use store-bought craft feathers, since keeping feathers from most wild birds is illegal in the US.)
• floral foam bricks
• large plant stake
• flower cage plant support

Other dried florals you could consider adding are chrysanthemums, eucalyptus, yarrow, pine cones, baby’s breath, or lavender. Or you could buy one of those dried flower arrangements that you can find everywhere now and take them apart and reuse the dried cut flowers.

The simplest way and best time to find these already dried grasses and flowers are late October and all of November. In our area, December has been too late since heavy snow can ruin them. Thankfully, I can find plenty of them along the river where I live. 
Or you can pick flowers during the summer and hang them upside down in a dry and dark place. The grasses need to bloom mostly during the fall first, and can’t be picked early.
If you can’t forage in your own garden or on nature walks for all the items as I did, then you can (of course) buy them all online, but that’s when it gets pricey.

How I made the dried floral Christmas tree

As I mentioned above, the concept is the same as my pampas grass Christmas tree tutorial from last year, and I added the video below. Use the triangle on the image to view the video, and if that doesn’t load, you can also watch it on my YouTube channel.

What I did differently

The differences are all the added grasses and dried florals found. I used floral blocks this time because large cones are too expensive and also not needed. A large plant stake worked really well to poke through 5 floral foam bricks. I measured first, of course, to see how many I’d need.

A bread knife worked really well for cutting and shaping the top of the last brick into a pointy shape.

For the base, I used a flower cage, which I had on hand because we use those in the summer outside every year. It was perfect for the base, but you could probably use something else as well. You can see the contraption below before I started poking the dried flowers and grasses into the blocks.

I stripped the leaves off the grass stems and then started building the Christmas tree from top to bottom by inserting the stems into the blocks. After that, I filled everything in with the other dried grasses and dried flowers like the thistles (wear gloves).

Lastly, I added fairy lights again because they are much lighter than standard Christmas light strands and also have less visible cords. I like using them so much better and wrote a blog post about holiday Holiday magic with plug-in Christmas tree fairy lights magic with plug-in Christmas tree fairy lights to show you how I use them in our house. Another bonus is that you don’t have to nonstop struggle with burnt-out light bulbs. I can’t stand that about traditional Christmas light strands, and I’m sure that I’m not the only one, right?

Don’t forget to add the hairspray at the end, like I did in my video tutorial.

Finished foraged dried floral Christmas tree

I’d like to possibly still add some golden or rust-colored Christmas ornaments. But I am still trying to figure out how to attach them the best way. You definitely can’t hang them off the branches. Even if that doesn’t work out, I absolutely love how the tree turned out. It’s so unique, and I only had to pay for the cheap floral foam bricks. There is definitely no need to add beautiful ornaments because the dried greenery speaks for itself.

When the fairy lights are off, you can see the different dried flowers better. The lighting wires are a bit visible as well. You can now see that they look much prettier than standard Christmas lights. You couldn’t achieve this look with standard light strands!

In case you are wondering, the brass pot is one of my all-time favorite Goodwill finds and fits the tree perfectly.

I mentioned that mine was almost free. The only thing I had to purchase were the foam blocks. Some of you might not be into DIYing your own things and would rather purchase the items.

Can you believe the larger one with the dark planter is about $900 and is about the size of mine?!?! I guess I should say was because it’s sold out, so apparently, people have the money to drop that kind of cash on a tree that can be made for next to nothing. Crazy right?

I had my eye on a different mirror, but not sure if I should pull the trigger.

I also made a pampas grass garland for our fireplace mantel.

If you like dried florals and grasses, then you might also like my DIY dried flower Christmas ornaments, where I used glass ball ornaments and different dried grasses.

I hope you enjoyed my boho DIY foraged dried floral Christmas tree. Stay tuned for more of my Christmas ideas and decor.

Check out my favorite faux Christmas trees if you don’t want to make your own.

Merry Christmas and have an all-around wonderful holiday season,