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Take the bottom branches of the Christmas tree, cut them to size and pin them to a ring of florists' foam with 'staples' improvised from lengths of whippy red dogwood,

add whatever the garden can provide ( in this case ivy, box, hebe, euonymous, lavender, rosemary, a couple of honeysuckle flowers, some shrub with red berries whose name I don't know, and a few pine cones) and arrange as best you can.

Voila!

24 December 2008 in Flowers and gardens | Permalink

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Very festive and quite thrifty!

Posted by: Cheryl | 24 December 2008 at 12:39 PM

From what little I can see of it I'd guess your red-berried shrub was some variety of Cotoneaster. It might be C. simonsii, C. dammeri or possibly a cultivar of horizontalis (though it doesn't really fit the latter).

Posted by: Peter the flautist | 24 December 2008 at 12:57 PM

How lovely to be able to go out into your own garden and add all those lovely greens and reds to your wreath. We have so much snow that most of my shrubs, and even the small trees, are buried. A very, very white Christmas here!

Posted by: LINDA FROM EACH LITTLE WORLD | 24 December 2008 at 03:08 PM

Exquisite! A very merry Christmas to you, Karen!

Posted by: Lisa W | 24 December 2008 at 04:15 PM

Beautiful, Karen. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: kelly | 24 December 2008 at 05:39 PM

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