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Mixed greenery for decorations can come from boughs cut in your own garden. (Photo by Joanne Young)

Cutting your own boughs for holiday decorations

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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Beautiful holiday container with berries, greens, pods and curly branches. (Garden Making photo)

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.

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Hyacinths growing in glass vases with water. (Photo by Jodi DeLong)

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.

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A layered look for winter, using branches of red-twig dogwood, southern magnolia and huckleberry. Boxwood would be a good substitute for the huckleberry. The container is viewed only from the front. (Garden Making photo)

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.

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