Making Holiday Decor From the Garden

Creative ways to decorate for the holiday season

Today a good champion of the GPOD , Cherry Ong from Richmond , British Columbia , Canada ( see some of her premature postshereandhere ) is sharing some beautiful and creative ways shedecorates for the holidaysusing material from her garden . They ’re beautiful , and dependable of all , they do n’t search too difficult ! I ’m not the craftiest of people , but I think I could pull off some of these .

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Here ’s what Cherry had to say :

wintertime is the meter of year when I miss gardening , so I attempt to squeeze in some garden crafts with my holiday decorating . Here are a few photo from last wintertime ’s outdoor and indoor vacation interior decoration .

My best decorating trick was with a bag of cranberry for my American aloe . The berries are unadulterated for my big blueAgave ovatifolia‘Frosty Blue ’ ( Zones 7–9 ) . They ’re economical and compostable , too , when the time of year is over .

Of course , the season would not be all over without tonic lei hung on the front and back door . Costco sells the best fresh wreaths around , but I take out all the goodies and design and seize my own . My goody are a compounding of foraged and fund purchase .

I lie with that Cherry uses a computer memory - bought wreath as a base for these creation . I do n’t have the skills to make a whole wreath , but I could surely add in highlights turn off from the garden !

Anything left over gets clipped and arrange into florals for the holiday tabular array .

More leftovers arrange only for a board - top display .

Avid GPODers probably remember the moss and pine - retinal cone arrangement from a premature vacation Charles William Post . Here I impart an antler and some glass balls for some playfulness .

Wishing you all joyfulness through the season . I know I feel joy as I scrounge through my garden and trim my Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and nursing home with fresh leafy vegetable and berries .

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