A Garden Club of the Back Bay signature is the use of unusual natural materials in our wreaths.  Below is a wreath festooned with lotus pods, poppy seeds, wisteria pods, rose hips, protea, sea grape leaves, cones, pheasant feathers, and some completely mysterious items scavenged in the fields.  Some of the items, such as lotus pods, must be purchased, since we haven’t yet figured out how to grow these in our gardens in the Northeast, and the pheasant feathers come from a source in Minnesota who sells them on line to fishermen as material for exotic lures. We think the wreath is absolutely stunning.