Woodie’s Picks: Four Holiday Essentials for a Festive Display
Now that Halloween festivities have come to a close, there are only so many weeks until Christmas, and many are getting a jump on their holiday displays! While some of you may prefer to get the tree up and décor out post-Thanksgiving, it doesn’t hurt to start thinking about your festive decorations for the jolliest season!
Lucky for you, our holiday shop doors are open, and you can have festive greenery and holiday essentials shipped directly to your doorstep! This week for Woodie’s Picks, we are focusing on four holiday essentials to create the festive display of your dreams!
Tips For Creating a Festive Holiday Home
Before we discuss our favorite living elements for holiday décor, we wanted to highlight some key tips for decorating your home this holiday season.
1. Pick a Color Scheme
Our first tip for decorating your home for the holidays is to settle on a color scheme. This does not have to be strict, down to the ornaments you hang, but keeping a cohesive vibe throughout the space helps make the home feel aesthetically pleasing without being too chaotic to the naked eye.
2. Incorporate Warm Lighting
Next on the list of tips for a festive holiday home is incorporating warm lighting into your space. Nothing makes a home cozier around the holidays than warm twinkling lights draped along mantles, doorways, and on the tree.
3. Go For Live Décor
Last, but in our opinion most impactful, is the element of incorporating live décor into your Christmas displays. Beyond your Christmas tree, using live greenery along with other living festive elements can take an indoor space to the next level! See below for some of our favorite living holiday décor pieces to consider adding to your homes this December.
Four Living-Holiday Decoration Favorites
Fresh White Pine Roping
If you get one thing from our holiday shop this year, let it be our Fresh White Pine Roping! No holiday is complete without that crisp pine aroma, and the fresh needled garland brings such a classic and authentic feel to a holiday display.
The roping is gorgeous when draped along a fireplace mantle, but also works beautifully for an outdoor display as well! To preserve the lifespan of your greenery, we recommend misting weekly. Additionally, your garland will stay green longer if on display in a cool-to-cold area!
Christmas Cactus
Next on the list for living holiday décor is a bit of an obvious one, but nonetheless, it's a classic and brings unique color, texture, and beauty to your home for the holidays. If you’ve never heard of a Christmas Cactus, let us be the first to share with you the delight and wonder they bring to a room! Featuring colorful tubular blooms and a low-maintenance care regimen, the Christmas Cactus brings unmatched beauty to an indoor space.
Lemon Cypress
Everyone looks forward to the crisp scents of pine trees around the holidays…but what if you could also have the sweet aroma of lemons in your space? Enter the Lemon Cypress. Lemon Cypress trees can be used in many ways, including as a hedge, specimen, bonsai, or container plant. ‘
Additionally, these sweet and neon evergreen trees are frequently used in holiday décor as miniature Christmas trees around the home! The best part? Instead of boxing the tree up at the end of the holiday, you can plant your tree and think of the fond memories from that Christmas every time you pass it in the years following.
Holiday Cyclamen
Last on the list of living decorations we love for the holidays is the breathtaking holiday Cyclamen. Cyclamen easily brighten up the darker days of winter and gives us the joyful boost we need to make it through the season as we impatiently await spring blooms!
Cyclamen have attractive heart-shaped foliage with intricate patterns in a paler green atop the foliage. Pair this delicate foliage with a mass of bold-colored blooms, and you get a plant so gorgeous it’s hard to believe it’s even real! Consider using these as accents around your home, centerpieces on your table, or as a gift to loved ones!
Shop Living Holiday Decorations Online Today
Here at Garden Goods, we pride ourselves on making the more difficult things in life a little less stressful, all the while bringing natural beauty into your life. Skip the crowds and stress of buying decorations and gifts in-store this holiday season, and hit our one-stop shop for all of your holiday needs!