Holiday decoration for front door with more color added
Each Christmas I try to create some of the gifts and decorations for our family. It usually saves money and I really feel the spirit of Christmas as I work on my projects. This year, one of the things I tried was an outdoor decorative arrangement for the front entry. To be honest, I got the idea from our local garden center and decided to try one myself.
We have a lot of evergreen trees and shrubs and it seemed like a natural. I used one of my pots that still had dirt in in from summer and put a lot of branches that I cut from our yard in a basic arrangement. I added a few of the red twigged dogwood branches and used some old decorative berry clumps from other projects. The pot arrangement turned out great and I was surprised by how good it could look just using materials from our yard and some leftover junk. The final piece looks more like winter than like Christmas, so I plan to leave it up a bit longer than the rest of the decorations. In fact it will probably stay up until it starts to look sad.
Note: After getting feedback from Dawn, I went back into my old Christmas stuff and added a few more berries and ornaments. Those will stay on til the New Year.
This idea was really a winner and I plan to do it again next year.
Good idea! I like the look of your arrangement.
I did the same thing! So pretty. I also nestled a few sparkly red tree ornaments among the greens. It looks festive without looking commercial.
Great idea Dawn, I will add a few ornaments for the Christmas season.
Love it!
Very nice! The red bulbs are very Christmasy!
Do you just stick in dirt with no foam or anything else to support stems? Just wondered how to keep them from coming out from the cold north wind?
I do just exactly that. However my front door is in a protected area facing south.