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One of the best ways to give your guests a warm welcome during the Christmas season is to hang a homemade wreath on the door.

This decoration is extremely easy to make, and if you have the time you can make a base on your own. But it is much easier to simply buy a pre-made base.

Holly and dried flowers mixed with cranberries are the hit for this year.

Items need to be grouped into threes or fives making your wreath more interesting and creating texture.

Hanging your wreath is probably the trickiest part. One way you can do it is to insert thick florist wire into the back, twisting the ends together to form a loop. On wooden doors you can hang the wreath on a nail, if you have a glass door there are suction hooks available…

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The Christmas Cactus is not a plant that likes cold temperatures and snow, it just tends to bloom during the Christmas season.

It is an epiphyte or what is otherwise known as an air plant. In the wild, this plant will usually grow among the decaying and fallen leaves of trees, or from windblown nutrients.

This plant is native to Brazil and South American jungles, a Belgian explorer discovered it in the 18th century.

In the North American climate, it can live a long time if it is properly cared for. If it has warmth and indirect light, course soil, and moisture needs to be constantly drained from the soil.

This is truly a holiday plant as other varieties bloom at Thanksgiving or Easter. The flowers of this plant have a huge variety of colour - white, red, yellow, orange, pink, red, lavender and even multi-coloured flowers.

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The first holiday flower to come to mind is usually the Poinsetta, it is the best-selling holiday plant, but there are some other winter-blooming flowers that you can use as an alternative.

Amaryllis is a bulbous plant that has one flower on a single stem and it looks a lot like the lily. There are many different sizes and colours to choose from. They make a wonderful holiday bouquet, and they last for a long time with little maintenance.

Christmas cactus loves sun and makes a good plant when it is not flowering. This flower also requires minimal care. The blooms of this cactus are pink, violet, red and white, and they look great in hanging baskets or containers.

Christmas topiaries are usually used as tabletop displays, they usually include English ivy, rosemary, juniper and a mini conifers. The conifers are trimmed into holiday shapes, reindeer, ornamental balls and Christmas trees. They are then draped with ribbons and Christmas lights.

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Many have given up on the hope of seeing colour in the winter landscape. However, camellias are now blooming and they have beautiful blossoms to offer in pink, red and white.

Camellia starts to bloom in October. Hybrids are also available, they are usually single flowered and not recommended as cut flowers, because they shatter if they are handled too much. They can be placed on sunny patios or in windows.

There is a japonica variety that blooms later after the first blooms begin to fade. The blooms of this variety are latge and they have single and double flowers. Gardeners will either float them in water or use them in arrangements.

Now is the time to pick out your camellias, giving you the chance to find exactly the right kind and colour.

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Cyclamen is a type of flower that thrives in cool weather, so keeping things cold is the best way to keep this beautiful flower blooming.

These elegant plants are often thought to be straight out of the hot-house. However, in reality they really prefer cool weather over tropical temperatures.

This flower is hard to miss, they have candy-cane coloured petals, with four petals blooming upward and one blooming down. If you care for them properly they can provide a bright spot of colour both indoors and out.

Cyclamen is most often grown as a holiday plant but now they are also being used for weddings. The plant of this flower is also a quite beautiful, so they are worth keeping even after the blooms have faded.

[Via: The Lompoc Record]