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- Ornaments on the Inside. Normally, you want to place your circular baubles on the outside of your tree to add that extra layer of holiday cheer. But if you want to make your tree a bit more toned up, you can place some of the ornaments on the inside where they can’t be seen.
- Layer ornaments. Ornaments can do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to making a tree look fuller. The flashy colors and reflective surfaces catch the eye, allowing them to take the spotlight away from the empty areas of a tree.
- Different ornament types. Now you know where to put those ornaments, it's important to figure out which types are going on the tree. Just having one single color of crystal ball throughout your spruce will look bland, unfulfilled, and lackluster, so you are going to need to add a few different types.
- Fluff the tree. If you have an artificial tree, when you take it straight out of the box, it’s going to look very clumped and unappealing. You’ll have to pull on each branch slightly, tugging at the ends to move the branches downward in a more natural motion.
- Poinsettia
- Moth Orchid
- Christmas Cactus
- Cyclamen
- Azalea
- Amaryllis
- Norfolk Island Pine
- Flamingo Flower
- Lemon Bush
- Holly
Showy bright red poinsettias are immensely popular as Christmas decorations and gifts. The red ‘flowers’ are actually leaf bracts and make a handsome contrast to the dark green leaves. Poinsettias are specially grown to flower in the middle of winter and are tricky to keep going, so are usually discarded before spring. However it is possible to enc...
Exotic-looking and long-lasting blooms bring style and elegance to a room and make beautiful gifts too, especially as moth orchidis one of the easiest orchids to grow. White flowers look the most Christmassy but there are pinks, purples, and yellows too, often bi-coloured. Many blooms are borne on a tall, arching stem above leathery dark green leav...
Masses of bright flowers, usually pink, purple, sometimes red or white, make a lovely display to lift the spirits in the middle of winter. The blooms are borne on the tips of the flattened, fleshy, mid green leaves that form a neat bushy plant. Easy to grow, Christmas cactuscan live for many years and makes a great gift that will keep on giving. Su...
Widely sold at Christmas time, cyclamenmake a gorgeous display of flowers in colours that include festive red, purple, pink and white. The neat and compact plants form a clump of rounded marbled leaves with flowers borne on short stems. The flowers can last for six to eight weeks. Though it’s possible to get cyclamen to flower in future years, most...
Indoor azaleasmake showy bursts of colour in the middle of winter and, like cyclamen, also thrive in cool conditions and suffer in warm, centrally heated rooms. Masses of frilled blooms, in a wide range of colours including reds, pinks, mauves, white, and bicoloured, are borne on a neat bushy plant with oval dark green leaves. Suitable for: cool ro...
Huge, exotic-looking flowers grow from large bulbs, blooming about four to six weeks after planting. Amaryllismake excellent gifts – buy them as ready-grown plants or as bulbs in pictorial gift boxes. They are so quick to develop you can almost see them grow, making them a great plant for children, too. There’s a range of bright colours to choose f...
Tiered branches clothed with narrow needle-like leaves make a perfect little indoor Christmas tree that will last for years, slowly growing to around 1.5m tall. The slender branches are strong enough to support a few lightweight decorations. Unlike traditional Christmas trees, the Norfolk Island pine is not hardy –which is hardly surprising, as it ...
Flamingo flower has showy glossy red flower-like bracts contrasting with large, heart-shaped, glossy green leaves make this a tempting plant for midwinter. It's long lived with the right care and growing conditions, although flamingo floweris not the easiest of house plants. Suitable for: warm rooms with good light Care: Flamingo flower needs a min...
Lemons are handsome plants, combining fragrant white flowers and mouth-watering edible fruit, against handsome dark evergreen leaves. Other types of citrus with orange or lime fruit are also available, although lemonis most popular and most winter hardy. Citrus are long lived with the right care but aren’t the easiest of plants to grow, nor the che...
This classic Christmas plant slowly grows to tree size if untouched but responds well to pruning to restrict size and shape into neat bushes, pyramids, or standard ‘lollipops’, all available either as young plants or mature ready-trained specimens. The colours of the prickly hollyleaves vary from dark glossy green and blue-green to bright variegati...
Dec 15, 2015 · Australians also decorate their houses with bunches of ‘Christmas Bush’, a native Australian tree with small green leaves. The heavily flowered dark pink blooms turn into star-shaped deep red flowers over a period of weeks, generally by the week of Christmas in Sydney.
Feb 14, 2024 · Make sure your Christmas tree is a sparkling success by choosing it carefully, then looking after it well. Before you go shopping, decide where your tree will go and measure the space beforehand - many people buy a tree that is too wide.
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
Christmas trees. There are several types of conifer that can be brought indoors for decorating at Christmas. Most are available as cut trees, but container grown and containerised trees (dug up with roots and plunged into pots) are also available.
Dec 23, 2015 · It's what gives your pine tree a distinct, single trunk and gradually sloping branch structure. It also means that the trunk grows upward faster than the branches can grow sideways. Other than the root meristem there's one other meristem that you can't see.
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