So many inspiring glimpses of Holiday Garlands & Beautiful Christmas Greenery to get the wheels turning as we enter a season of decking the halls. Is it too early? Survey says half of you collect ideas all year long while the other half wish the seasonal inspo could please start in December. Find oodles of ideas for Christmas on this board. Whether you are passionate about your fresh evergreens, everlasting greenery, a mix of the two, or citrus garlands, they look so classic and feel at home in both modern and traditional settings. Also, do you ever add little crowns to your decor? What’s the royal fuss about anyway?
Holiday Garlands & Christmas Greenery Ideas
Christmas Color Stories Beyond Red
I love it when designers and homeowners choose to decorate their homes for the holidays with color stories that are meaningful to them personally. Isn’t this glorious installation refreshing, elegant, and breathtaking:
While a traditional look is always homey and welcome, it’s so good to be reminded there are no rules! You truly can mix the colors you love into a traditional scheme or completely go wild with a single accent color. Aren’t orange and blue amazing together?
Pomanders (above) bring me back to the holidays of my childhood where the scents of the season became engraved on my heart. (Can we ever overestimate the role fragrance plays at Christmas in the formation of lasting memories?)
Not a single stitch of red (above) in this unforgettable Connecticut farmhouse, and I personally don’t miss it one bit! Who is now thinking about limes and pinecones for their Christmas mantel?
Holiday Garlands Embellished With Fruit
Whether you choose to accent your greenery with fresh or artificial fruit, the effect is so delicious.
Just seeing the abundance of citrus here makes me so hungry!
And it is helpful to see how floral designers combine materials in dramatic and subtle ways. There’s a wild whimsy above in the Putnam Designs setting and a tidier one below in the elegant green interior:
I’m also fond of the idea of creating small citrus moments for a pop of exciting color in an otherwise serene vignette:
Citrus can easily be tucked into planter arrangements for color and form:
And think beyond citrus! A Pamela Pierce spare and pear look is as elegant as it gets!
Any experience drying citrus slices for garland?
It’s a rustic Scandinavian inspired look that never gets old.
Green and orange truly can be best friends:
And isn’t this a simple idea for an interior door? I can imagine a beautiful ribbon in lieu of the burlap one for a less country look:
And these citrus peel letters always entice me! Several failed attempts have been made by me to recreate this look…and I can’t fake it and say it’s a creation of my 5-year old!
For the Love of Pinecones & Christmas Greenery
The evergreens themselves need not be the star of the garland show…
The scale of these sugar pine cones was necessary to make a statement for this holiday showhouse!
Omg, the understated color story from that showhouse decorated exterior never gets old for me.
For a rustic mountain cabin look, isn’t a bicycle wheel with greenery and pinecones a whimsical wreath?
When you add pomegranates, willow berries, white lights, and eucalyptus to your pinecone garland, it’s going to be a showstopper of an entrance! If this home is near the road? Traffic jams!
Magnolia plus pinecones is always heavenly, and my friend Tina knows her way around a holiday home!
Christmas Decorating With Florals & Greenery
I’m so glad we live in a world where there are floral-minded folks who create magic for the rest of us to enjoy on special occasions!
Just imagine the possibilities if you are free to adorn your mantels, doors, and wreaths with your favorite blooms!
Suddenly the gloom of winter lifts!
Minimal Fresh Greenery & Garland
There are always contexts where it feels right to take a quieter approach for holiday decorating. Sometimes the architecture of a space needs little decoration.
Or the textural backdrop calls for a lighter look. With the rustic stone below, this understated garland arch feels elegantly just right.
It’s not often we see the simplicity of an elegant wide silk ribbon festoon:
And here’s a reminder that the magic of swagging garland means you can create arches where there none.
Minimal can be cozy…it’s true!
It truly depends on what areas of a space you care to highlight…where do you want the eye to land?
A minimal look can even look rustic when it’s executed in a carefree, effortless and relaxed manner.
It’s true that the quality of the holiday garland matters when you’re staying more minimal:
And I think that is why I am personally a rather hopeless holiday decorator. I see the possibilities since my work life finds me immersed in beautiful design, and I tend to prefer doing nothing over a sub-par attempt.
But oh how I enjoy the beauty created by others in a spirit of gracious hospitality with little thought of whether it will be blog worthy or likely to go viral on IG.
Maximal Christmas Greenery
Fully decked, festive, and bursting with style? It’s not often we see low contrast and this elegant black, gold, and green holiday scheme.
This Christmas mantel scheme feels maximal in the sense that the dense boughs are lush and thick. I have some experience with shaping fresh branches from my own evergreens into garlands, and…not at all a task for the hurried or clean freaks. The needle shedding! And the injuries to my hands!
Here’s a great how-to:
Fresh Greenery Tutorial
Staircase Garlands for Christmas
Will you be decorating your stairs this year?
I feel a bit panicky even thinking about it since it’s a tall order! Maybe I can hire someone with expertise and patience. I can only imagine the wonderful fragrance!
And isn’t that the loveliest thing about all of these fresh garland ideas?
They thrill more than one of our senses!
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Christmas & Crowns
Crowns and Christmas hang together for plenty of folks who celebrate holy days for the birth of a king.
Yet it’s interesting to ponder that when Jesus of Nazareth was born, people were desperate for a great royal king to rise and rule. They had no idea this baby born in a barn had an entirely different kingdom and humble lifestyle in mind.
Since crowns were historically associated with nobility and status, artists often depicted religious figures wearing them.
The scriptures are full of references about receiving a crown, especially in relation to longsuffering and battles won.
While we may not think of the Christmas wreath as a crown, it too is said to symbolize eternity, infinite love, and in the case of a holly wreath, Christ’s crown of thorns.
Christmas Symbols and Crowns
Perhaps traditional wreaths have endured as a symbol of Christmas because of the paradox.
Instead of a symbol representing wealth or even pain, a wreath is a life-giving reminder of how Perfect Love conquered death.
A wreath on a door may be an invitation for Jesus to enter or a sort of welcome to a triumphant Christmas spirit awaiting within.
Not So Serious Crowns
Crowns have a playful side too. Brits traditionally wear tissue ones at Christmas dinner since they come in those sweet Christmas crackers.
Children around the globe feel special donning crowns as well even before they understand the historical significance or implications.
Sparkly crowns came into my world in a fresh way when my tiara-loving nieces became fixtures in my life. What a fun collection it has been my pleasure to help them build!
Crowns reflect: an unending circle of perfect love, hope that death will not have the final word, victorious peace redeeming a weary world, and the human spirit’s nobility.
I shared a heap of whimsy in THIS and hope your pre-holiday plans will deliver maximum joy.
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Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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