Each year I gather materials from the garden for the Christmas decorations.
We do not have a lot of room in our small house to put up a normal Christmas tree, sometimes we get a small one and cut one side off, so that it fits on the window sill! But recently I have taken a branch from one of the apple trees as we prune them and used that.
Decorated with baubles and lights it looks great and fits the space.
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Wreaths are always made from materials collected from the garden. This year the one by the front door has a culinary feel with rosemary and sage, then a hint of colour with the addition of helichrysum dried flowers.
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Another wreath is made for the gate into the walled garden. A framework made years ago from ivy stems and decorated this year with holly, ivy, mistletoe and fir cones.
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We have a hedge of holly, made from seedlings grown from berries off a tree where we used to live. Only one of the plants ever has berries but we were lucky this year to get quite a few.
We sit in the dining area eating our meals, looking out onto the patio. So I thought it would be nice to have a table decoration on the table on the patio to look out at.
Using an old chimney pot and grasses, seed heads and other bits of foliage I am pleased with this new decoration.
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The little Christmas trees grown in pots from seedlings are sometimes brought into the house but this year I have decorated one and put it on the patio.
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With 2020 being such an unusual year with so many people at home over Christmas, some of them alone, the villagers have decorated a window in their houses to send Christmas greetings to everyone in the community. This is ours.
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Have a nice Christmas wherever you are and how many you are. Lets hope for a much improved and fruitful 2021