At Christmas, I love to have fresh flowers in my home. It’s a real luxury to bring a floral display into your home but it can serve so many uses; a decoration for a mantlepiece or a sideboard, a centrepiece for your festive dining table and welcome guests into your home. Plus, flowers make a brilliant gift for your friends and family.
Here are three ways to use festive florals in your home this year…
Beautiful bouquets
The simplest way to bring some opulent florals into your home at Christmas is with a beautiful bouquet. This option is so easy because it’s possible to buy ready-made floral arrangements from florists that you can simply pop into a gorgeous vase – done!
You can choose colours that coordinate with the baubles on your Christmas tree for a seamless display. And, if your know your friend or family member’s favourite colours, you can also arrange for a bouquet to be sent to them as a Christmas gift.
This is a great greeting option if you won’t be able to see your relatives or friends over Christmas, especially if they live overseas, as it’s possible to send flowers to USA or throughout Europe by booking a bouquet delivery in their own country.
It really shows you’re thinking of them, no matter how far apart you are, and it gives them an instant display of colour and festive foliage with no effort, ready for the big celebration.
Welcoming wreathes
Each Christmas, I always make a wreath for my parents’ front doors. It’s been a tradition ever since I learnt how to make a wreath during a workshop many years ago. Now, it’s a special occasion to deliver a fresh, handmade wreath to their homes before Christmas.
I trim fresh evergreen foliage from my garden – eucalyptus, holly with berries, laurel and even variagated hebe stems – and use these to create a full background. Then I add blooms from my flower bouquet to add a fresh pop of colour and make it look truly opulent.
It may look like a tricky decoration to make but once you’ve got the wreath base and a reel of floral wire, it’s really quite simple. Plus, you can reuse the ring year after year if you choose a metal or woven wicker or twig base.
All you need to do is trim a length of evergreen foliage, lay it onto the circular frame (or poke it in, if you’ve got a wicket base) and then use the wire reel to attach it securely to the frame. Any foraged garden stems or an off-cut of your Christmas tree will work perfectly. I’ve shared a quick mini-wreath DIY guide here.
Then, you can use the same wire to attach ornaments to the wreath: old baubles, faux flowers or animal toys that you’ve spray-painted to create decorations, as I have – here’s the DIY toy decoration project step-by-step. Tie a ribbon around the top in a big, blousey bow, ready to hang it on the door.
Festive foliage
There’s really no limit to the places you can use festive foliage around your home. If you’ve got stems of ivy or branches of eucalyptus growing around your garden, you can head outdoors to see what you can forage for your display.
Then you can wrap the stems with silk bows and hang them in a cluster to create a Scandi-style hanging display (which also dries out perfectly). Or you could attach them all together to create a garland. Just lay all the stems together in a long line and use the reel of wire that you got for your Christmas wreath to attach each piece to the next.
Then you can use this garland to decorate your mantlepiece, adorned with golden bells or fairy lights, or you could wind it up the bannister of your staircase to bring some festive foliage in your hallway to welcome guests.
I hope these ideas will help you to incorporate more fresh foliage and florals into your Christmas decor this year. Please let me know in the comments below if you have any more suggestions of ways to bring more flowers and evergreens into your festive display, I’d love to hear your ideas!
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