The window box on the wood shed gets dressed for the holidays with Fraser fir (Abies fraseri), Threadleaf False Cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Sungold’) and Winterberry (Ilex verticillata). It’s a task that always puts me in a festive mood!
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Beautiful photos.
Thank you!
So festive!
Thank you – ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!’
I like the window box, Like the snow too! 🙂
Thank you!
Those are two too cool evergreens. Chamaecyparis of any kind is uncommon here, and I have never seen a real Fraser fir. I grew a few seedlings a few years ago when I grew all but one of the North American firs. Ironically, the one fir that I was lacking was the Santa Lucia fir, (or bristlecone fir), which is native to a small area in the Santa Lucia Mountains just south of here; so it is one of our natives.
Thank you, Tony. Being softer, fir is less prickly to work with.
Beautiful, Eliza! So fun and festive.
Thank you, Peggy! Happy season to you.
I think these individual traditions; I remember seeing last year’s box and thinking what a lovely idea it was. Happy beginning of the festive season Eliza.
Thank you, Christina. Decorating for the holidays brings a lot of joy.
A beautiful and perfect blend of textures and colors.
Thank you, Alice. 🙂
Fa- La-La-La-La, deck the halls! Greens and red berries put me in a good mood as well! Lovely, Eliza!
Thank you! 🙂
A beautiful festive arrangement.
Thank you kindly, Andrea!
!:-) I love the display against the weathered woodshed! Beautiful, Eliza:-)
Thank you so much, Robbie! x
Oh that looks lovely – and makes me think I could stick some extra greenery in the baskets at the front which have violas and bellis in them…
Thank you, Cathy. I decorate four different places outside the house with greens and berries for the holidays. I love the festive look, esp. with a dusting of snow.
It looks festive indeed, Eliza! The white lace curtain behind the box adds to the picture too.
Thank you, Kris. I think I’m the only person in town who puts a lace curtain in my woodshed, lol. When I had it built, I wanted it to look attractive and not just utilitarian. 🙂
The whole image is full of wonder with the wood siding, festive arrangement, and lace curtain. Love this!
Thank you, Peter. It may be a woodshed, but I was determined to make it look like a cottage. 😉
So cheering and festive Eliza! I love the smell of fir when freshly cut, and that contributes to the Christmas mood for me too. 🙂
Thank you, Cathy. Fir is so aromatic… that reminds me, I have to get out my balsam scented candles. They’ll do until the tree comes in. 🙂
I’m enjoying all the festive greenery and also the snowy blog pages. Your window box looks so cheerful and pretty against the wood.
Thank you, Alison. It may be a utility shed, but no reason not to dress the window. 😉
Things are starting to look festive!
Yes, indeed. Are the kids getting excited?
They are counting the days Eliza!
🙂 Christmas with little kids is the best!
:):)
That looks absolutely lovely Eliza.
Thank you, Agnes! I like your new gravatar. 🙂
Oeps, I’m not totally with you Eliza, but it’s been a week or so since I was on WordPress 🙂
It gorgeous and so very festive! 🙂
Thank you, Robin. Do you do your own decorating for the holidays?
I used to. But we don’t spend Christmas here so I put up the Christmas flamingo as a nod to the holidays and just enjoy the display that Mother Nature puts on around us. 🙂
I love window boxes of all shapes and sizes. This is quite lovely and definitely a nice part of your holiday decorations.
Thank you, Judy. It takes but a minute to do and is so pleasing to look at. Once in a while I get caught out with frozen soil, but not this year, thankfully. 🙂
Beautiful colours and textures!
Thank you, Belinda!
Laughing about your lace curtain! Think I like the contrasting evergreens better, the Chamaecyparis will grow in Atlanta and I used to use them on projects – a favorite! Looking great with Winterberry and Fir. I am sure that was hard to get to look that great! Happy Holidays.
You like that curtain, eh? 😉 Thanks, actually it took longer to collect the greens and winterberry than to arrange it. It went pretty quickly.
When I bought the Threadleaf, the tag said H3′ x W3′ so I thought I was getting a dwarf. Must have been mislabeled as that thing is at least 10 x 10 now and I’d never have put it in that spot if I’d known how big it was going to get. No matter how much I hack away at it, it still grows on and on. Still, it is beautiful and the birds love its privacy for nest-building, so I’ll let it stay. For now, at least. 😉
I do, kind of whimsical. I think those Threadleafs were another oops, there was one called Gold Mop that was dwarf. I love them, too wonderful color.
Beautiful shed and window box!🙂
Thank you!
Very festive. 🙂 … and wonderfully paired with the ‘snow’ that WordPress brings to each and every one of us each December. 😀
Thank you! I love the WP snow; since it only lasts a month, we don’t tire of it.
The season approaches…few people evoke such a sense of wonderment through these arrangements as you do. Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much! 🙂
that is just so pretty!
Thank you, Fi! 🙂
You really can’t help feeling in a festive mood when you see that!
Thank you, Sarah!
Your fern willow box looks really lovely – v Christmasy 🙂 looking forward to seeing more Christmas arrangements love bec xx
Thank you, Bec!
🙂 xx
Perfect plants and perfect backdrop. Nothing like having a choice of greens for decorating.
Thanks, Linda. I particularly like it when a windstorm brings down a pine branch like I found in the woods last week- makes it easy! 😉
Beautiful
Thank you, Rotimi!
You’re gladly welcome Eliza
My favorite!!! LOVE holiday window boxes!
🙂 Thank you, Kathy. How does one decorate in FL without the standard evergreens?
There are plenty of Cedars here in Cedar Key with beautiful blue berries and there are LOTS of pine cones from the Loblolly pine trees. I haven’t made any window boxes though because I still have plants in pots so there’s lots of green! A new amaryllis, too.
So beautiful!
Thank you, Maria!
Beautiful! Add a message and you’ve got a holiday card!
Hehe, there’s a thought– thanks, Denise!
It ain’t just the window box that got dressed up. Looks to me as if there is some lovely lace curtain behind it. In a shed, no less!
Hehe, classy, eh? 😉 I wanted a window for light in the shed, but didn’t want to look at the wood stacked inside, so the curtain and window box help the cottage-like illusion.
Classy!
;D