3 Mail-Order Magnolia Shops For Christmas Wreaths And Garland In The South
Get fresh wreaths and garlands delivered to your door from these Southern businesses and farms.
Weston Farms / Caroline Bramlett
Nothing says Christmas in the South quite like a glossy magnolia wreath hung on the front door or a thick, shiny strand of magnolia garland looping up the banister or draped across the living room mantel. If you’re feeling crafty and have access to the raw materials in your yard (or the yard of a generous friend), you can certainly attempt a DIY magnolia wreath or garland, but the holidays are already busy enough without adding large-scale decorating projects to your to-do list. Instead, let one of these three Southern businesses and farms deliver timeless holiday style straight to your front door.
Gracious Garlands
Gracious Garlands
Austin, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee
Nine years ago, Elle Worsham officially took the reins at Gracious Garlands, the mail-order holiday greenery business founded by her mother in Nashville, Tennessee, but she’s been fulfilling holiday orders after school since she was a teenager. Today, Worsham partners with a handful of small U.S. farmers to source the highest quality greenery, shipping gleaming wreaths and luxe strands of garland straight from the farm to your front door.
At Gracious Garlands, glossy magnolia leaves add texture and sophistication to bunches of Fraser fir, white pine, Leyland cypress, and boxwood. The company’s tri-mix wreath is a perennial best-seller, but we’re fans of Worsham’s Mailbox Kit, which comes stuffed with fresh evergreens, magnolia, pinecones, and floral wire to give your mailbox a festive boost. There’s even a QR code with a link to a custom how-to video on YouTube. For customers in certain areas of Nashville and Austin, Texas, where Worsham now lives, Gracious Garlands also offers custom mailbox decoration.
Pro Tip
To extend the life of your greenery, Worsham advises giving them a quick spritz of water every few days and avoiding direct sunlight, if you can.
Weston Farms / Elle Cole Interiors
Weston Farms
Raleigh, North Carolina
When Erin Weston took her fine arts degree and moved back to North Carolina in 2002, becoming a “magnolia farmer” was not the career path she imagined. “I had a broad idea that I wanted to create a luxury product grown on the farm,” she says. “But magnolia chose me.” Weston Farms began with her grandmother’s single magnolia tree, but today, the urban farm includes more than 10,000 trees, many of them unique varieties that Weston cultivated with the help of her late father, a horticulturalist for the city of Raleigh, to produce high contrast leaves.
The company’s standard 28-inch wreath is made up of 12 hand-tied small-leaf Southern magnolia bouquets, which brings the number of leaves per wreath to nearly 1,000. With 120 leaves per foot, each strand of thick Weston Farms garland is made-to-order, making it easy to customize if you provide the exact specifications (even photos) of your space in advance. Take note, with the right care, Weston Farm’s fresh magnolia greenery can last multiple seasons. Simply save the specially designed box your order arrives in and use it to store your greenery until next year. “The colors will fade slightly,” Weston says. “But put other fresh greens with the dried garland and it looks fresh again.”
The Magnolia Company
The Magnolia Company
Pierson, Florida
Six generations of one family have farmed this fertile stretch of Central Florida land. Although Julie Roth’s grandmother began specializing in cut foliage and ferns for florists in 1936, it wasn’t until 2001 that Julie and her husband Matt helped shift the farm’s focus to magnolias, launching the Magnolia Company. The company uses the family’s farm-grown Florida magnolias to produce artisan-made wreaths, swags, and gleaming strands of garland. They also sell bunches of hand-selected and bundled magnolia branches that can be tucked into decorative urns by the front door to replace potted perennials as the weather cools.
All the Magnolia Company’s offerings are designed to dry beautifully, allowing customers to use them for years to come. While the timeless Original Magnolia collection continues its rein as the Roth’s seasonal best-seller, the company’s talented team of artisans produces three additional collections, incorporating a variety of other greenery and festive trimmings. Plus, the Magnolia Company’s 18-to-24-inch saplings make excellent gifts for that hard-to-shop-for family member.
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