To find it strange to hang a fake flower wreath on your front door at the height of summer

At the end of the trend, yes. I assume a lot of people liked them at the start… I know my mum turned her nose up at them.

A lot of people round here hang plastic topiary balls and such like. They look cheerful but fake for about a week, then sad for a few years.

I’ve got a dried flower one. Hate plastic ones

I did live through the 70s and actually knew very few people with plastic trees, I grew up on a farm on a remote island so we were quite backward, plenty plastic decorations though. But I think we all now know that plastic is horrible long lasting waste and we should try and reduce our use of it. I understand why people like to have seasonal decorations but the move to plastic versions is not good. And I don't think it's even a class thing particularly, there's plenty middle class people buying expensive plastic wreaths and 'silk' flowers and 'luxury' Christmas trees, my top hit on google for 'luxury wreath' is an everlasting wreath for £92 which is more than I pay for my real Christmas wreath each year.

No thank you.

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They were once very aspirational, and a sign of a houseproud family.

Flowers? In summer? How very dare they!

I don't know whether it is American or not.
I have nothing against seasonal wreaths in principle, though personally I only go for a Christmas one and I make it myself out of foraged materials.

Like the OP though I prefer ones made out of real materials to fake. However, @Buxusmortus, have you considered that at this time of year, although there are lots of real flowers around, they probably won't last long once cut. Hence a real wreath would need constant maintenance to replace the bits as they die off. At least with a Christmas one it is outside in cool weather and only has to look good for about 3 weeks if you put it up in mid December.

So I can see how this would work with short seasonal things like Easter or Halloween. But trying to keep one for the whole of an actual Season, like Spring or Summer, is very likely going to end up being a fake one unless the owner has lots of time on their hands to keep it fresh.

Well I've got a fake lavender wreath that stays up all year except at Christmas when I put a fake Christmas one up 😂 Am I meant to make my own wreath from fresh flowers from my garden every week through the whole of summer? Or buy a new one every week? No time for that.
And it's not for Instagram or for show because it's on my back door so only I and a few visitors see it anyway.

I don't have a fake flower wreath on my door but several neighbours do, they are OK, I don't really see the problem tbh.

Surely it's a good thing to have neighbours that are taking some pride in their house and making an effort to have the front looking nice, even if their taste is not the same as yours?

It seems to be the thing at the moment, much as I can be bothered with a wreath at Christmas.
I hate those silk flower hanging baskets and balls. OH says, Over my dead body

I'm starting to wonder if you know my NDN.
She has the fake wreath, fake box balls with flowers, fake hanging baskets and fake planters at the front, and fake plastic grass at the back.
She changes then when they fade, so it must be costing her a small fortune.

I think, somewhere, I have a knitting pattern for one of those.
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@JaninaDuszejko if you'd lived through the 70's, then you'd have seen everything go plastic. The Germans invented the artificial Christmas tree, as a response to deforestation. We can't blame America for everything.

So do you think that you can judge people inside the houses, or just 'the neighbourhood? You make a lot of assumptions, from my experience, they are wrong. So what if someone thinks it's naff? All those people you and your quoted poster look down on, are the people scrapping by on low wages, the hospital porters, cleaners, cateting staff etc. I like seasonal decorations and get the reindeer etc that you talk about. I used to have a real tree, but the twat cat, I've got, would just piss and chew it to bits. I theme my rooms. I do like real Christmas wreaths. My GC like the sparkly door bow, their Mum chooses. The fashion of using door bows has been around for at least ten years, before that you'd have to pay for someone to dress your door and it was out of reach for most people. I don't do air fresheners. I did home care/worked with families and know that one action/like doesn't nearly slot people into a category. You'd probably hate me because I use window stickers as well, Easter, Halloween, Christmas. If buying and hanging something on a door, brings someone a bit of joy, then they should crack on. People have different personalities, try taking them as you are and you'll be much more content.

The 'American' aspect is the wasteful use of fake plastic decorations to mark the passing of the seasons rather than using real seasonal objects. The medieval Germans and Scandinavians weren't putting up a plastic everlasting wreath were they? Nobody is objecting to the marking of the seasons, it's the use of so much plastic to do it that's the issue. It's perfectly possible to make seasonal wreaths out of longer lasting natural materials so you don't need to spend a fortune at the florist.

I like them. I haven’t got one. I have got lots of flowers in the garden.
The ones I like are too expensive for my tight fistedness .
I especially like the autumnal ones, they look nicer than all the leaves swirling around my front door.

But it’s not American.

Hanging wreaths are thought to have begun in the 1500s in ancient Germany and Scandinavia especially around Yule.

I honestly wish people wouldn’t assume everything they find annoying is American (edit: or the fault of B&M Bargains!!) See also Halloween.

Just because Americans seem to embrace ancient European traditions more than we do doesn’t mean it originated there.

i do the winter real one and the have an Easter Sainsburys wreath, have fake hanging baskets too, even though I have a country house I’m a crap gardener and busy and there is no hose of water supply at the front of the house, so we have a few fake ones. My neighbour who runs the local gardening clubs said how lovely I keep my hanging baskets, I Daren t tell him!

One word - Instagram

I find it tacky too.

I have volunteered to deliver leaflets near my home for several years. Until about 2 years ago I hadn’t noticed any wreaths on doors at all, except at Christmas. This year the artificial flower ones were all over the place, especially in a very large new housing estate. Some of them look good, especially the little twig one adorned with tiny gardening tools on the door of a gardener. They usually look quite pretty but not really to my taste, I just have a Christmas one and one I put out at Easter when my adult sons come home. So, I think it is a new thing, but no idea how it started.

It's a new trend for sure but I am embracing it! I have always loved Christmas wreaths. Now I have an Easter wreath too.

100% with you, no idea why they are so popular, not something I would put on my door either.

Yep, more things that people think they need - all just going to landfill when they look tired in a few years time. I blame B&M.

I have a fake sunflower wreath at the door right now. It's simply GORGEOUS doncha know! In winter I make a real one with spruce and cedar cones and dried oranges, cinnamon sticks, plastic berries and little red Christmas baubles. I also have a BEAUTIFUL fake garland around the door at Christmas to show it off.

Around me people change their wreath with the season. I particularly like the orange and black ones around Halloween