by Ailsa Tessier
Our Flower Guild will be working on some new ideas to decorate the church for Christmas this year. Instead of purchasing ready-made garlands, we’d like to make our own from magnolia leaves. (After all, we’re in the South, and nothing is more Southern than magnolia!)
To that end, we ask that you let us know if you have a particular type of magnolia in your yard — we want to use the variety that has smaller leaves with the lovely velvety chocolate brown undersides. We will need a lot of these to make this project work, but with a bit of hands-on work we’ll save quite a bit of money. If we are able to source enough leaves and branches, we might do wreaths as well. We would be glad to come to your location and cut judiciously from your tree(s) during the week after Thanksgiving. If you have this type of magnolia available and are willing to donate it, we’d be most grateful. Please let Ailsa Tessier know if you can help. Email Ailsa Tessier
Ailsa – we have 2 magnolias in our backyard. I’m not sure they’re the type you’re looking for. They are quite tall, I would say their leaves are pretty big, they are brown on the back not sure about fuzzy I’ve not ever checked them out that closely.
If you think they might work you are more than welcome to take as much as you want