This heart shaped topiary is inexpensive to make and right at home in French country or French farmhouse style Valentine’s day decorating!
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Do you decorate for Valentine’s Day? Since my kids are grown, I have way fallen out of the habit of decorating much, and back then it was mostly for their classroom parties. But I am a fan of celebrating love and all of my special relationships… with my husband, my family, and my friends. So I do still get a warm fuzzy feeling from having just a little nod to Valentine’s day around.
I just love topiaries! I came up with this idea because rosemary topiaries really fit in a French country style kitchen. Plus, I wanted to decorate for Valentine’s Day with something a little more adult now besides cardboard and tinsel hearts. So what better way to add a Valentine’s Day decorating touch than heart shaped topiaries?
There’s nothing overtly Valentine-y about them other than their heart shape so they make for a more subtle, adult Valentine look that fits in with my decor.
Let me walk you through how I put these heart shaped topiaries together in case you’d like to make some of your own! It was really inexpensive since I had a lot of the supplies already.
How to make the topiary.
What I used:
- Heart shaped grapevine wreath
- Garden pot
- Rosemary/air grass hanging bush pick
- Styrofoam
- Brown grapevine wire
- Green floral wire
- Stick from the yard
I was able to find everything I needed to make the topiaries from Hobby Lobby and from around the house.
First, I took a nice straight branch from a bush in the yard and wrapped a piece of grapevine wire around the stick and the wreath until it was secure. I had to wrap it quite a few times to get it straight and stable enough to stand on its own.
I cut apart pieces of the faux vine. I’m not sure exactly what type of plant this is supposed to be since rosemary doesn’t grow like this long trailing version…maybe a fern. But the individual pieces look like real rosemary! I was able to buy it during a week when florals were 50 percent off at Hobby Lobby.
I laid out pieces over one side of the heart. Then I secured it to the wreath every few inches with pieces of green floral wire.
Instead of closing the wire all the way and smoothing it down, I left it sticking out on the other side so that I could use the same wire to secure the rosemary pieces on the back as well. After the front side was covered, I flipped the wreath over and repeated on the back.
I cut floral foam I had on hand to fit snugly in the bottom of the pot. These topiaries aren’t really top heavy so nothing was needed to weigh it down.
Tip: Don’t insert the stick until you are pretty much done attaching the greenery. You can still do minor touching up, but if you cause the stick to move around, it will enlarge the hole and the topiary won’t stand straight.
The rosemary looked so life-like, I decided to fill the pot with potting soil, but I could have also chosen Spanish moss or green preserved moss.
I made a trio of topiaries and just varied the heights of the sticks. They look so natural in my French country kitchen and I love how they also bring some life into the room this dreary time of year!
This is the extent of my Valentine decor this year but I also gave the vent hood a little Valentine love with this cute flower heart I also picked up at Hobby Lobby:
And some pink flowers on the counter…
If you love topiaries as much as I do, you should give this Valentine DIY a try! I’d love to see what you create!!
And if you’d like to see even more Valentine’s Day crafts, take a look at the other beautiful projects my blog friends have made!
Marianne from Songbird shares her sweet DIY Lace Hearts
Suzy from Worthing Court created this lovely Valentine’s Day Printable
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Such a great idea! I’m definitely going to try this…as soon as I can find a grapevine heart shape!
I’m so glad you like it! They were easy to find in the craft stores during the Valentine’s season.
Your rosemary topiaries are so pretty! I love the heart shape!!
Thank you Kim! Those are the extent of my Valentine’s Day decorating this year.
I can’t get enough topiaries and these are perfect! I love this idea. Hoping you’ll start linking up at Farmhouse Friday. Love your creativity! pinned.
Thanks so much Cindy!! Thanks for the invite to Farmhouse Friday. I’ll definitely check it out!
Your topiaries are absolutely gorgeous and look so real! thanks so much for sharing the DIY, and for linking up with All About Home. I’m featuring this lovely post on Monday evening. Have a great Sunday!
Oh thank you so much for featuring them!! Love your link party – thanks for hosting!
Kate! These are adorable! I need them on my kitchen peninsula.
Thanks for sharing in Fabulous Friday, otherwise I would still be blindly going through life totally unaware that my life will be so much richer with a trio of heart topiaries.
Seriously, I am so into these.
Lol…I’m glad you like them Diane!!
I love these adorable heart topiaries! I’ve made lots of faux topiaries before, but never a heart one. Such a great idea!
And thanks so much for joining our Fabulous Friday Link Party!
Thank you Michele! And thank you for hosting this great new link party!!
Hey, Kate! It’s Julie! LOVE these topiaries… and your photos are awesome! We hope to see you at Tuesday Turn About this week! The party closes tonight at midnightCST and we reopen on Tuesdays at 5pm CST! Hope to see you there! Pinned!
Thanks Julie! I love your link party and will plan on joining!
I love this idea. Thank you so much for linking up with Fabulous Friday Link Party! We sure appreciate you, Hugs and blessings to you.
Thank you Renae! Wonderful job on the first party and you featured some of my favorite bloggers!!
I would have never guessed that this topiary wasn’t made from a live plant! So simple and so elegant – I love it and pinned this post 🙂
Thank you so much. I would love to see yours if you try it in the future!
What a delicious-smelling decor idea! I love gardening and will have to keep future decor plans like this in mind!
Thanks Susan!
I love a good topiary and this one is perfect. You did an amazing job and they look wonderful in your beautiful home.
Thanks for the sweet comment!
So lovely and you’re right that the ‘rosemary’ looks real! Fakes are getting so good.
Thanks Sara! I also think faux rosemary can look very realistic!!
I’m a gardener, who loves rosemary and grows some outside. Haven’t tried a topiary in the garden but your design would be fun to try and pop along the sidewalk patch for V Day. Thanks!
You’ll have to let me know if you make a real rosemary topiary. Although I work in the yard a good bit, I don’t consider myself a gardener and probably wouldn’t be able to make the real thing!
Gorgeous!!! I love these! Adding the potting soil is the perfect touch for making them look alive!!!
Thanks so much Nancy! Until you get really close they do look very real.
These are SO pretty, Kate! I definitely want to make some for myself. The greenery that you used looks exactly like rosemary – I couldn’t believe that it’s faux. Where did you get those gorgeous roses?
Thank you Suzy! It was super easy. And I bought those roses last spring at Michaels…they should have them again soon.
Hi Kate,
Your topiaries look beautiful. And at first glance I never would have guessed that it wasn’t real rosemary you used.
I love this subtle Valentines decor.
Thanks so much Marianne! They make such good fakes now and the best part is they don’t dry out and die!