Winter Gardening and Holiday Decorating Ideas

Some of you know I'm a bit of a gardening

enthusiast.  

I can't leave well enough alone! 
While downstate visiting the family

I went to a garden center with the most fabulous
 plants this called Bordines, 

in Rochester Hills, Michigan my home town.
I picked up a couple of small plants
for my windowsill.

 My kitchen window will serve as my

winter Garden
My Baby Tears on the left brought in from
this summer and given a hair cut!
Two Amaryllis, one Christmas Cactus
and one Cyclamen

  Cyclamen

  Christmas Cactus

 And my Amaryllis that are growing!

Yay!

Maybe there is hope for it to bloom

by Christmas...they do move fast 

once they get going!

While visiting at Bordines I went in one

of the greenhouses that had natural

wreaths, baskets and planters

 on display and the aroma was 

heavenly!

 Hanging baskets of boughs, pine cones

and ribbon

 Maybe you'll be inspired by these

hanging baskets and planters.

 They told me if you spray "wilt-pruf" on the

greens and mist them they will last longer.

Of course if you have snow that will

do too!

 These are big- probably 4 to 5 ft.

tall with the sticks.

 They have them in peat containers

obviously you could dress that up

or set it in another pot
(There is no dirt inside- just fresh
cut boughs set inside)

Many variations of greens are used.

 Their natural wreaths were all beautiful

I think if you scratch and sniff 

the screen you can smell these!

 See the Protea or Proteas flowers? 

A little Hawaiian influence!

 I like the different greens they used

My favorite one

 They hold classes and showed

people how to make these

ribbon wreaths

 A couple of samples of ribbon

wreaths

Wish I knew how they did this! I got these

pictures from their Facebook page.

Perhaps if you go to Pinterest there

will be some pictures and tutorials.

I would love to attend something like this 

if I lived a couple hundred miles

closer!