category: Christmas Trees

The Significance and Legends around Christmas Plants

  • The Significance and Legends around Christmas Plants
  • by My Garden School

  • The Holly and The Ivy Traditional Christmas carols celebrate the holly and the ivy, but their use as winter decorations predates the Christian festival. The Romans believed that holly’s prickly leaves drove away evil spirits while the Ancient Britons felt that ivy protected them against goblins. The Christmas Rose Helleborus niger. The Christmas rose is,…

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My Home Made Christmas Decorations –Bring Your Garden Indoors This Christmas!

  • My Home Made Christmas Decorations –Bring Your Garden Indoors This Christmas!
  • by elspeth

  • Inspired by MyGardenSchool tutors Caroline Tilston (Decorate Your Room Outside) and Andy McIndoe (Planting Spring Bulbs) – I have done almost all my Christmas Decorations and interior by using bits and pieces I already have in the garden, shed or house.   Not only do I think they look better than artificial decorations – wow  –…

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Great Christmas Idea: Gift an Online Gardening Course – Instantly

  • Great Christmas Idea: Gift an Online Gardening Course – Instantly
  • by Tara

  • A Christmas gift of a gardening course with some of the world’s best gardeners is just a click away as MyGardenSchool launches a unique online gift certificate MyGardenSchool, the world’s first online gardening school, has today launched gift certificates for each of its 23 online gardening courses, just in time for Christmas. This makes it…

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Top Ten Tips for a Sparkling Christmas Tree

  • Top Ten Tips for a Sparkling Christmas Tree
  • by Andrew McIndoe

  • Our Trees Expert, and Managing Director of Hilliers Nurseries, Andy McIndoe gives us some top tips for buying and Keeping Your Christmas Tree 1.  Whether you buy a traditional Norway Spruce or a Nordmann Fir or other no-needle drop variety, buy early while there is a good selection. Leaving it until later does not mean…

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