3 Ways with Christmas Greenery

Birmingham event and floral designer Sybil Sylvester combs the winter garden and shares three enchanting ways to use fresh evergreens indoors.

Create a Centerpiece
Photo: Helen Norman

Create a Centerpiece

Use a footed silver serving tray to display a sumptuous centerpiece with vintage ornaments and clippings from the garden. This will last a full three weeks!

How To: Start with Southern classics: boxwood, pine, and magnolia. Next add large ball ornaments, followed by crocosmia pods, pinecones, and abelia whose flowers have dropped, leaving a showy flourish of pink sepals on the tips of branches. Finish with delicate sprigs of evergreens, dried shelf mushrooms attached to florist picks, and smaller ornaments.


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