

As we welcome the beauty of winter to the Treasure Valley, we also come to the season of family, friends, and lots of cozy indoor time.
Our gardens and natural surroundings have a variety of interesting plants that make for beautiful decorations around our homes.
You can winter-beautify your entry way pots with a variety of plant material:
❄️Birch, oakleaf hydrangea, and lichen-covered branches
❄️Willow, red and yellow dogwood, and contorted filbert twigs
❄️Berry-laden branches like holly and beauty berry
❄️Fir, cypress, and juniper evergreens
❄️Dried hydrangea blooms
A wreath can create a festive doorway and make a great gift! You can find a tutorial for a basic evergreen wreath here:
Spruce up your wreath with plant pretties like:
❄️Colorful rosehips, crabapples, chokecherries, holly, beauty berries…
❄️Rosemary sprigs
❄️Ivy
❄️Dried artichokes
❄️Fluffy seed heads like clematis vitalba
❄️Evergreen sprigs
❄️Cones
❄️Interesting seed heads like rudbeckia, echinacea, ornamental grass
Personalize your gift-giving by incorporating plant decorations on your wrapped gifts by using:
❄️Small sprigs of evergreens
❄️Pinecones
❄️Metallic-tinted leaves, cones, and seed pods
❄️Shapes, letters, and patterns cut from peeled bark or out of leaves
A tip for harvesting evergreens:
Cut them after precipitation if you can, hydrate them in water, then spray needles to slow water loss with a protective coating spray like Wilt-Pruf. They will look fresher longer thru the holiday season!
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