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

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Buxusmortus · 23/06/2025 18:51

I have seen quite a few of these recently, in houses with actual front gardens.
It's the height of the flowering season, real flowers are everywhere, why on earth does a door need a fake flower wreath in summer?

I hate fake winter wreaths at Christmas but at least I can understand it more then, with bare gardens and trees and with it being more traditional to have a wreath at that time of year. Sometimes I make my own out of real foliage etc then or sometimes I don't bother with one.

A couple of people near me have had a fake flower one up since before Easter, surely they get dirty, dusty and faded, as well as looking generally crap.
It's a very strange thing.

Edited to say I accidentally appeared to have added a poll, did not intend to do that.

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Buxusmortus · 23/06/2025 22:34

myplace · 23/06/2025 22:24

It’s the crochet doll loo roll cover of our time

You've nailed it!

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Tiddlywinksrus · 23/06/2025 22:33

Some people are just into stuff like this. Personally can't be bothered but if ai had the time maybe I would think about this.
Assume the same people also have seasonal airfreshners, use scented dryer sheets and use zoflora every day. Some people are just into homey stuff like this I guess and if thats their thing then great as it obviously just makes them happy!
Its not my thing for many reasons but some people just like it

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Buxusmortus · 23/06/2025 22:32

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 23/06/2025 22:20

Whether or not you like fake flower wreaths, I don't see what the fact that there are real flowers around in summer has to do with anything. They don't make your door look nice. If you had a holly tree in your garden, would that stop you putting a Christmas wreath up?

The fact that there are loads of real flowers around seems to me to be relevant as it makes having additional plastic flowers on the door extraneous and jarring.
I do have 3 holly trees in fact, and as I said, I do sometimes make a real Christmas wreath. But at that time of year gardens are pretty bare and the weather is gloomy, so it can be nice to have something festive outside.
But in summer, where there's real floral abundance everywhere, a plastic door wreath doesn't seem to make anything look nicer or better, in my opinion.

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HopingForTheBest25 · 23/06/2025 22:32

I have a heart shaped pink plastic one - I think it's pretty and I don't gaf if you don't like it.
The only people who have to like our houses are the ones living in it!

BatchCookBabe · 23/06/2025 22:32

BeamMeUpCountMeIn · 23/06/2025 22:30

Yanbu. Fake flowers give me the willies. Creepy, dusty things.

They won't collect dust on the outside door.

steff13 · 23/06/2025 22:31

Foreverm0re · 23/06/2025 22:22

An annoying American thing we seem to have adopted over here.

Decorative wreaths originated in ancient Greece. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's automatically American.

Pickingmyselfup · 23/06/2025 22:31

Are they not practical? My flowers in a vase with water die after 2 weeks so how would a wreath work with real flowers? Would it not need replacing constantly over the summer? Get a fake one, it lasts all summer and the summer after that until it falls off in the wind one day and breaks like my Christmas one did 😭😭

I like all of them, brightens up a boring door. I love hanging baskets too and I'm thinking about getting fake ones because I'm terrible at watering the real ones so they die and look even worse.

BeamMeUpCountMeIn · 23/06/2025 22:30

Yanbu. Fake flowers give me the willies. Creepy, dusty things.

businessflop25 · 23/06/2025 22:30

I don’t have a wreath but I work with someone who has a lot of artificial flowers and changes up her arrangements in the house regularly. They look real unless you are really close to them. She loves having flowers in her house but cannot have real ones due to horrendous hayfever and asthma.

PatChaunceysFruitCake · 23/06/2025 22:29

I can’t get worked up over it. It seems harmless to me.

weareallqueens · 23/06/2025 22:29

I don’t have one but I like them. I often covet other people’s. I saw a gorgeous babies’ breath one the other day that looked too perfect to be real.

tigger1001 · 23/06/2025 22:29

I make floral wreaths but for inside. I have one on my living room door and it changes with the seasons. They bring me joy.

BatchCookBabe · 23/06/2025 22:29

I don't see what the problem is. People are probably doing it so that they get a wreath that lasts all summer.

spoonbillstretford · 23/06/2025 22:29

Buxusmortus · 23/06/2025 22:22

I'm interested to know from the ones that have different seasonal ones, when did you start doing this and why? Because I've only seen anything other than a Christmas one in the past few years.
Do you feel that your front door doesn't look good without one?
I think a clean, maintained front door looks good on its own.

Some people think it's nice to mark different seasons and events throughout the year. Nothing wrong with that.

RowsOfFlowers · 23/06/2025 22:27

Don’t understand the fake floral wreaths, and think they look tacky.

cadburyegg · 23/06/2025 22:26

Buxusmortus · 23/06/2025 22:22

I'm interested to know from the ones that have different seasonal ones, when did you start doing this and why? Because I've only seen anything other than a Christmas one in the past few years.
Do you feel that your front door doesn't look good without one?
I think a clean, maintained front door looks good on its own.

Over the last year or so. My flowery one goes up in spring and I put Easter bunnies and eggs on it over Easter. It stays up until autumn then my autumnal one goes up with Halloween things in October. Then a Christmas one. I like changing things up, makes it more interesting and fun to look at for me. I’m the one going in and out of it every day. It’s my front door and I can decorate it if I want to 🙂

ShoutOutLucile · 23/06/2025 22:26

I’ve got one, I don’t particularly like it but I can tell you why I’ve got it.

My front door is very corporate looking. It’s both taller and wider than an average front door. It’s that terrible dark grey colour and it’s part of a massive glass frontage, all one piece, so I can’t get a new door. I want my house to look like a home and not the office of an advertising agency. So I’ve got a wreath to make it look more like a house and to disguise one of the stupid peep hole windows.

The door is a total sun trap, it faces full south. If I had a fresh flower wreath if have to replace it every eight minutes. Even if it lasted two days I wouldn’t have a real one because I haven’t got time to make flower wreaths three times a week.

Reachforthestars00 · 23/06/2025 22:25

I love my door wreaths and change them with the seasons. They brighten up my world one fake flower at a time.

TinyTempest · 23/06/2025 22:25

Good Lord, it's just a door ornament that some people like.

Why are you even thinking about it? 🤷‍♂️

You'd shit kittens if you saw my neighbour. She has 3 fake shrubs in her front garden.

Dangermoo · 23/06/2025 22:24

Buxusmortus · 23/06/2025 22:22

I'm interested to know from the ones that have different seasonal ones, when did you start doing this and why? Because I've only seen anything other than a Christmas one in the past few years.
Do you feel that your front door doesn't look good without one?
I think a clean, maintained front door looks good on its own.

You do, I don't. I'm moving in the next week and will have a wreath free door, or maybe I will put it on the summerhouse door.

myplace · 23/06/2025 22:24

It’s the crochet doll loo roll cover of our time

Mumdiva99 · 23/06/2025 22:23

I have some roses and lavender in my garden. But I like fake wreathes too. I would still have my Easter one out but it had a bunny on and I didn't think I could get away with it all summer. So I've hung it in my hall instead.
Why not have them? They hurt no one.

helpfulperson · 23/06/2025 22:23

Aweecupofteaandabiscuit · 23/06/2025 22:16

I can’t grow flowers on my door, even in the summer 🤷‍♀️
So I’ve currently got my flower wreath up and at the stroke of pumpkin at 12:01 on 1st September my autumn wreath will go up, then a few days before Halloween my delightfully naff tinselly witchy wreath will be taking her time in the spotlight and then my holly wreath with fairy lights will be out to herald the coming of winter. I also have an Easter egg wreath.
Love a wreath. It’s my front door, I can wreath it if I like

I have a similar annual routine. It's never occurred to me I might be upsetting someone

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Buxusmortus · 23/06/2025 22:22

I'm interested to know from the ones that have different seasonal ones, when did you start doing this and why? Because I've only seen anything other than a Christmas one in the past few years.
Do you feel that your front door doesn't look good without one?
I think a clean, maintained front door looks good on its own.

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Foreverm0re · 23/06/2025 22:22

An annoying American thing we seem to have adopted over here.

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