New Year Comes To the Garden: We Create Compositions From Natural Materials

Pre-holiday days are a time of anticipation of a fairy tale. Compositions of natural materials, Christmas tree toys and candles will help to create an appropriate atmosphere on the threshold of the site.

Pots for candles

In Europe, at Christmas, the house is decorated with a wreath with four candles. Why don’t we adopt such a nice tradition?

If you do not like wreaths, just put 4 clay pots with red candles in a narrow wooden box and fill the space between them with short pine and spruce branches, as well as decorative apples and cones.

Composition of driftwood

On a snag by means of self-sealing floristic weight fix a candle, a pot with red cyclamen and a floristic sponge.

In it stick the branches of pine and spruce, on top lay decorative apples, dry inflorescences of clematis, mistletoe, painted in silver moss, as well as balls and figures of reindeer.

New-year… the box for seedlings

For the decor of the table, even a wooden box for seedlings will fit. Fill individual sections with cones, bright fruits, Christmas balls, small pots with red candles, and rose flowers. Needless to say, there was a place for traditional Christmas fir branches. If desired, the ensemble can be supplemented with bright yarn, as well as a garland of star anise.

Wreath of Abies

Wreath of branches Abies, Ilex (with red fruits), as well as tufts of moss for a long time retains decorative. Wire all the details to a round base of straw and decorate with balls, cones and whip Parthenocissus. Finally, hang the craft in a prominent place, such as on a door, wall or, as in the photo, on the old stairs in the garden.

Ho, Ho, Ho!

I think Santa Claus has lost his hat. Not exactly, but in the photo above, his headdress serves as a kind of pattern for a cap with a tassel of wire-tied pine and spruce branches. The craft is decorated with a red strip of felt at the bottom, cones and wooden stars, wrapped with red thread.

Spruce in a pot. Or in the basket?

Now it is fashionable to buy not a felled Christmas tree, but in a pot. And since such a capacity, as a rule, does not Shine with beauty, it should be draped. Propose to do the next way: check a tick a plant in basket from wire diameter of more pot and between the walls of containers stick not thick birch logs. This decor looks catchy and also gives the composition stability.

Picea orientalis is a uniformly pubescent slow-growing coniferous plant with very short dark green shiny needles. In short, the perfect Christmas tree for the terrace, if it is decorated with balls, cones and garland.

Compositions with ivy

The birch trunk cut is a lovely catwalk for a winter ensemble of ivy lashes, fir branches and Holly shoots with red fruits. They are organically complemented by Christmas balls, a lamp, and a small figure of a bird. In the center, Helleborus niger blooms in a moss-wrapped pot.

A simple basket made of wire can turn into a bright accent if it is lined with moss, it is folded into rings of ivy and filled with red and white Christmas balls, pine cones and a wreath of red Cornus stems.

Instead of a Christmas tree

Christmas mood can give not only spruce, but also other plants, such as evergreen Myrtus with Skimmia in a simple basket of wire, beautifully Packed in moss. The solemnity of the composition give the shiny balls and cones.

Helleborus niger in the southern regions blooms all winter and is considered a symbol of hope. Packed in a felt pot, with a star of moss, bark and branches, as well as a Golden ball, the plant will be a wonderful gift for neighbors and friends. Important: do not forget to water the “Pets”.

Stylized fir branches from

New year is simply unthinkable without a Christmas tree. And even if the tree is not bought, nothing prevents its creation. The stylized green beauty of pine and Ilex branches is fixed with wire on the deck for drying herbs and decorated with shiny balls, Golden apples and a garland. The trunk is made of a piece of bark.

Multi-layered art object

A three-storey metal fruit bowl is suitable for the role of an accessory, if the dishes are filled with pine and Cornus branches, cones, moss, pieces of bark, rose hips and decorative apples. The crown of the composition-red candles on the upper “floor”.

Simple and beautiful

Stick a branching branch in a pot with decorative grass (in the photo – sedge) and hang Christmas balls of different colors. Nearby, it does not hurt to put other plants, such as Picea glauca ‘ Conica’ and Helleborus, decorating them with moss, cones and Christmas toys.

Festive candle holders

Shiny decor elements look most effective in the light of lighted candles. For brightness, put in a wide glass container several pieces at once.

Wrap the neck of the container with colored threads, place the lamp on a wide dish and arrange around the moss, Golden apples, cinnamon sticks and different cones.

Basket–candle holder

1. Take a small wire basket and half-line it with moss. Then on the third fill with sand glass wide vase, with the outer side of a thick thread tied red felt.
2. Put the glass container in the basket and stick in the sand thin tall candles.
3. The gap between the glass and the wall of the basket, if desired, fill with miniature Christmas toys and cones. Put in a place protected from the wind.