We love holiday greenery and as we transition from fall to winter we tend to forget the landscape and look to the indoors as holiday decorating kicks into high gear.
The fact that holiday decorations have been available in the stores since late September only entices one to jump on the band wagon.
Although a very tasteful decorating job can be achieved by using artificial decorations, they are no replacement for live, aromatic cut boughs and greenery. Nothing adds the true feeling of home for the holidays quite like natural decorations.
One of the best areas to apply this treatment is your outdoor annual planters that have given up their prominence as colorful annual sentries to the entrance of your home. Adding fresh cut spruce or taxus (yew) cuttings, along with red or yellow twig dogwood stems and deciduous holly berry stems, brings these planters back to life and will add a warm, inviting feel to your home’s entrance long after the holidays have past.
The decorating should not end at the entrance to your home. Including evergreen roping down a staircase railing, evergreen cuttings and pine cones arranged as a centerpiece, vases adorned with holly branches and gold and silver painted tree branches continues the natural theme across your dinner table and beyond.
One should look no further than their own landscape to find many of the aforementioned items. Most often one’s landscape includes at least one large evergreen tree that can be strategically pruned or a taxus (yew) hedge that can contribute to the cause. If your landscape happens to be void of such specimens maybe someone in the neighborhood would be a willing participant in your endeavors. Asking the local Christmas tree sales yard for cut branches could provide the supply you would need.
If time is not on your side and you still would like to enjoy some of Mother Nature for your holidays, we offer these decorating services as part of our product offering. Just give us a call and we will be glad to assist you in any way we can.
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