For tabletop and mantel decorations from evergreen branches, your garden can provide boughs of cedar, boxwood, fir, juniper, hemlock and spruce.
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December in the garden
Designing a beautiful winter container
Designing a beautiful winter container is more about artfully arranging cut branches than growing colourful plants in your outdoor planter.
Forcing bulbs and dreaming of spring
If you still have some bulbs to plant, try growing them in containers indoors. Forcing bulbs provides mid-winter blooms.
Make your own winter arrangements
Winter containers use branches from shrubs and trees to add colour and texture for winter arrangements that will last until spring.
Decking the halls with greenery
Tips on decorating with greenery from Hilary Bellis. Bring fresh greenery and branches into your home to use in vases, garlands and wreaths.
Caring for poinsettias
Tips on caring for poinsettias. Once, holiday poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) were always red. But now there’s beautiful pink, white, plum, cranberry.
Garden design
Create your dream garden from scratch
Confronted by empty yards front and back? Here’s your detailed guide to creating your dream garden from scratch.
Punctuation in the garden
Punctuate your garden to create a compelling narrative. Here’s how to use trees and plants as exclamation marks, periods, commas and other signals.