Gloria Smith, an art teacher at Bethel High School in Hampton, has been making pine cone wreaths for years. Here’s how: Materials: Straw wreath form, picture-hanging wire, assorted firm and dry pine ...

When I was little, Momma had us make Christmas wreaths with Ilex cornuta, perhaps the most prickly of all the hollies, pinning those stems to straw wreath forms. Another standard, Eastern Red Cedar, ...