Garden Pic Wednesday: Decorating with Christmas Greenery
Christmas Greetings! I spent many years as a floral designer, so today I'm doing a couple of quick decorating tips for Christmas greenery and Poinsettias. F irst: Vasing Christmas Greens For The Table We buy a fresh tree yearly, which means a few branch trimmings. What I like to do is snip off the smaller branches on a branch of Frazier fir, strip each stem of needles that will be under water, then arrange them arrange them in a vase for my table. It makes a pretty, long lasting arrangement that I can flowers to or just enjoy along. Plus it smells nice. About once a week the stems will need a fresh snip and fresh warm tap water. I recommend a solid vase, rather then a clear one, so stems won't be visible. Even if you don't have a real tree, many fresh tree lots will let you help yourself to their pile of trimmings for free-- but you should ask. Fund raising tree sellers tend to me more charitable about their trimmings then for-profit lots, which may...