As you can imagine with all this snow Dublin has been getting, there hasn't been much to do in the garden apart from feeding the birds! Most of the work I've been doing has been indoors and now is the perfect time to do it!
So I love Christmas.. Anyone who has been to visit our house will tell you there is Christmas decorations everywhere. I’m a little bit obsessed with candles and I probably go through a box a week, and it would be more if my boyfriend wouldn’t walk behind me blowing most of them out. We always had a lot of decorations, candles and flowers in my mums house during winter. I've kept this tradition going now that I have my own house to decorate. I love hyacinths, preferably white ones, it wouldn’t be christmas without their smell when you walk into a room.
It’s been impossible to find the white moss we are so used to using in Sweden, here in Dublin so when my mum came over to visit i forced her to bring over a whole shopping bag full. I think it gives the arrangements a nice warm feel to them and it makes the plants and flowers pop out more then they would if they had been on a black soil background. I love when an arrangement has only one kind of flower or plant.. It gives it a nice simple look.
Adding a little Santa or Christmas tree decor makes it a bit more fun... I think so anyways, the difficult thing is to know when to stop! We are keeping our Christmas tree very simple this year. No bobbles, only ”homemade” Santa's and hearts. I love the look of it and the fact that its nothing glittery or shiny in it besides from the ribbons.
I picked up this trick on a flower arrangement course last christmas, If you take all the soil off the hyasinth and wrap the bulb with moss you can hang it in the window or put it on a plate and leave it there, you hardly need to water it and they will always grow upwards. I think it looks cool in a window or as a table decoration.
Now its time to leave the flowers to grow and look amazing so I better go and do some christmas shopping =) Happy Christmas!
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