But the Monchers have figured out how to make and sell Christmas wreaths - about 25,000 this season alone. ... There are so many pine cones involved, 80,000 per year, ...

With a slant on foraging, Hannah Stephenson joins a Christmas wreath-making masterclass with a top floral school to find out how it's done.

Pieces of pine, such as trimmings from the base of your Christmas tree, and/or assorted evergreen foliage, for example, berried and trailing ivy, rosemary and bay. Assorted pine cones, dried seed ...

If you put it outside in the hot sun, 100-something degrees, the pine cone is going to fall off.” His pieces cost between $150 and $300. This is his most popular, the wreath with a local flair.