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Decorating for Holidays with “Fine Foliage”

Poinsettia, Christmas Cactus, Amaryllis, Paperwhites are all lovely examples of classic flower power at the holidays. But, what about options without flowers? Tabletop arrangements bold enough to go without flowers are a fun option. And have you GOT COLOR outside? Probably not much when its been as frozen as its has been across the country this Holiday season.

So, lets take a peek at what some VERY talented designers are creating with the lovely options in winter foliage to arrange and cut for stunning outdoor as well as indoor arrangements.

Stephanie and Garden Therapy made this adorable burlap covered porch pot and even gave you the complete instruction for how she created it from garden cuttings. I love the non-traditional colors!
The talented designers at Behnkes Nursery made this made this Christmas tree out of cut-greens, excellent color!!

The uber talented designers made these designs above and worked almost a full week on the entire house- great blog post to read and see how they made the magic!

I love the way this arrangement uses the vertical height of the yellow twigs en-masse for impact!

Bill Kennedy Landscape has been taking Pinterest by storm with fantastic design work for winter!

Last but certainly NOT least, two of MY favorite designers who are simply BRILLIANT and constantly keep me in awe with their talents, Helen Weiss of Unique By Design of Edmond, Oklahoma and Deborah Silver of Detroit Garden Works.

Rosa Calloway

Rosa keeps the indoor-plant and small-space coverage at Garden Care. She lives in Marrickville, in Sydney's inner west, in a two-bedroom worker's cottage with a 60 sqm courtyard garden that she has cultivated obsessively for the last six years. The courtyard is north-facing, gets four hours of summer sun and almost none in winter, and currently houses four citrus pots, a wall of potted herbs, two figs, an espaliered pear, and a hand-built vertical strawberry tower made by her partner Adi. Rosa worked as a graphic designer for eight years before a balcony herb-garden Instagram experiment went viral in 2020 and she pivoted to writing. She still designs the occasional book cover when the deadlines line up. She is married to Adi (a ceramicist whose pots fill the courtyard and most of the kitchen) and has a rescue cat called Pesto who has personally shredded several seedling trays. Rosa is the one to ask about getting twenty plants into a balcony without it looking like a botanical hoarder, choosing pots that will actually last a decade outdoors, and which indoor plants forgive a forgetful waterer. Her current side project is a salad-greens microbed under a grow light in the laundry — at last count it was producing more salad leaves than she and Adi can reasonably eat.

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