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12/28/2019

How to Keep your Evergreen Decorations Fresh Through Christmas

Live garlands, wreaths, and swags can be incredible holiday decorations, revitalizing a space with their crisp air and fresh evergreen boughs. But how can you keep evergreen decorations clean through Christmas without decaying, drooping, or wilting?

Several things can help keep your live garlands, swags, fresh-cut decorations, and wreaths alive throughout the holidays so you can adore them longer than average.

Luxurious and Lush Cut Greenery
Fresh cut greens are lovely for the holidays, regardless if you prefer berry sprigs, cedar or pine decorations, aromatic herbs or other sorts of greenery to make garlands, wreaths, and swags.

Purchase Fresh
The fresher your greenery is when you buy it, the longer it will last. Learn where retailers get their fresh-cut greenery and how long it has been cut. If you can trim your foliage at a local tree care & stump removal business or from your landscape, your results can be even better because you know just how fresh the cuttings are.

Soak to Save
Give your fresh greenery a complete soaking to rehydrate the plants and stems before you fabricate decorative arrangements. Put the plants in clean, fresh, crisp, clean water and submerge them for at least a day to make sure they have taken in a reasonable amount of water. If total immersion isn’t possible, give all the cut ends an in-depth soaking.

Misting a Must
After you've set your fresh decorations, consistent misting every 24 – 48 hours will aid them in staying accurately hydrated so they will last a long time. If your house is arid, putting a humidifier close to the decorations will keep them saturated. If your arrays have faux accents or ribbons, remove them before misting to halt any running colors or other water damage that can ruin the look of your decorations.

The more methods you use to retain your greenery, the longer they will survive during the holiday season, retaining its vibrancy and freshness. With the right care, these decorations can cheer up your house for weeks and might even last a couple of months, lengthening your holiday joy longer than you might have thought.

12/21/2019

Decorating with Evergreen Branches

Having Christmas displays don’t mean you can hang them and leave them. Decorating with evergreen branches and keeping them fresh until Christmas Day is simple with the tips below.

Decking the halls with evergreens during the holidays is a tradition around the globe. While many folks most likely have a tree decorated in sparkles and lights someplace in their home, your evergreen decor shouldn’t end there.

There are numerous spaces where putting some winter greenery can truly help spice up your house for the holidays. Check out these tips for decorating with evergreens!

Pick the right plant. The answer to keeping evergreens fresh is understanding your materials. Holly leaves, for instance, can discolor if uncovered to harsh temps. Evergreen shrubs and trees are usually durable enough to form into garlands, wreaths and other holiday decors without fretting about premature browning.

Trim smart. Trim unhealthy limbs from an evergreen tree. You can also remove branches that will help shape the tree. If possible, trim from a tree that has just come into dormancy. Put the cut stem in water quickly to keep your holiday evergreens fresh.

Decorate. When you drape, hang, and decorate living evergreens, the process is more complicated than just discovering an attractive arrangement. For cut greens to remain fresher longer, put them out of the sunlight and away from heat sources like fireplaces, vents, and candles.

Stay hydrated. Just like holiday flowers and Christmas trees, cut greens require water to remain fresh. Spray evergreen decor with water every other day, so they stay healthy.

There are many scents of the Christmas season, but one of the most well-known in the smell of spruce, pine, or whatever evergreen you prefer. It’s difficult to top the lush scent and look of a wreath, garland, or fresh tree. The fake stuff can be way more convenient. It’s turning out to be more common.

You can still add some tiny pieces of fresh greenery in your decor, making it simpler to come by and more straightforward to replace each year. If you buy or chop down a real Christmas tree (make sure you call a stump grinding business to come to pick it up when you’re through), you have a few branches or sprigs leftover. If you are buying or reaping just the branches or sprigs, you want to put them to good use.

12/14/2019

Gardens Aren't Always Dormant in the Winter

Snow falling softly over shrubs and trees, covering perennials and stopping fall season chores. The white blanket delicately lies over the garden, putting all to sleep. The garden appears so calm and quiet. Gardens are dormant in the winter, right?

There is lots of winter garden activity, but not all is seen. Before the dirt freezes, plant roots are continuing to absorb nutrients and moisture from the soil. Warm winter days pull moisture from foliage and evergreen needles. Snow acts as a natural temperature moderator, stopping the ground from warming too fast and shielding plant roots from cold, bitter temperatures.

Foliage Offer Refuge
Shrub and perennial foliage provide a lot of refuge for small winter wildlife and birds. Also, last season’s plant seeds are a food buffet for hungry critters. The tender bark of young shrubs and trees is quite beautiful to animals seeking a snack.

Safeguard your defenseless shrubs and trees by creating a barrier with metal mesh, chicken wire, or plastic tree protector. This will stop snow from mounding up around younger shrubs and trees as well as stop animals from using the snow as a ladder to get access to upper parts of your plants.

On a side note, this is also why homeowners need to get stump removal service so animals will not have a stump to make a home.

While you might have warmer temperatures during winter months, plants aren’t ready to begin growing. Swelling buds on shrubs and trees might look as if it’s spring. But, as long as the soil is still cool, growth is at a standstill. This safeguards plants from hard freezes that Rochester will probably experience in March and perhaps beyond.

As you look out your window on those dreary, cold winter days, and desire warm spring weather, bear in mind, your garden is still working diligently.

Dormancy is crucial for plants in the northern landscape since if they were actively growing in cold temps, their leaves and stems would freeze, killing or destroying them. They would fight to thrive in the reduced sunlight of shorter days. Their roots would know it’s practically impossible to get water from frozen soil.

12/7/2019

Choose a Live Christmas Tree This Year

Spruce trees at a Christmas tree farm

If you desire a live Christmas tree this year, you will be happy to know there are plenty of choices. Here is a closer look as the most well-liked live Christmas trees so you can pick the right one for you.

Douglas Fir

The Advantages
The sweet smell of this tree is one of the numerous reasons why it's such a well-liked Christmas tree. Additionally, the Douglas fir lives for four weeks, which is excellent if you like to keep your tree up past January 1st.

Disadvantages
The Douglas fir is a colossal tree. So, it wouldn't be appropriate for a small space in a home or a small apartment.

Blue Spruce

Advantages
The silver-blue color of blue spruce makes it a favorite choice for numerous households around the holiday season. The limbs of this tree have a skyward tilt, allowing ornaments to hang easily. The branches give this tree its distinct appearance.

Disadvantages
One disadvantage of blue spruce is that the needles usually begin to fall off sooner than other tree types. Besides, this tree lives for just two weeks, and the needles have a nasty odor when crumpled.

Fraser Fir

Advantages
A Fraser fir keeps its needles for an extended period when it's watered accurately and kept away from the heating vents. Be sure the family pet doesn't use your Fraser fir stand as a water bowl. The tree’s needles have a coating that lets them glow under your Christmas lights. A Fraser fir typically lasts for about 35 days, giving off a pleasant fragrance. This tree is slim, making it right for small spaces and small rooms.

Disadvantages
A Fraser fir is shorter and doesn't possess the fullness of a Douglas fir.

Norway Spruce

Advantages
Want a medium-sized, cone-shaped Christmas tree? If so, take a look, at a Norway spruce. This tree has deep green needles and reveals a subtle scent.

Disadvantages
This tree drops its needles easy if it's shaken in its stand or someone brushes past it.

Don't forget to recycle your tree or call a stump grinding company to come to get your tree. Your beautiful Christmas tree can be helpful to the environment after making your holiday celebration special.

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