How to Decorate Your Garden for Christmas with Longacres Garden Centre
Throughout the festive season, a lot of time is spent making the inside of your home look perfect for Christmas. Why not spruce up your garden this year too and take your Christmas decorations outside as well as inside?
Tidying Your Garden
Before you get into decorating your garden for Christmas, you may want to tidy up a little. Throughout autumn and winter, trees will drop their leaves, leaving leaf litter all around your garden. To make your garden look it’s best for your decorations, rake up all fallen leaves or branches. You could even use the collected garden waste in a compost pile!
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Garden Lighting
Christmas lights are for more than just a Christmas tree, and there are many ways they can be used to brighten your garden. String lights or cluster lights look fantastic when strung across fences or hedges. For a brighter display, you could use curtain or icicle lights for a bolder impact.
Solar lights are another great way to illuminate areas of your garden. You can use individual lights along a pathway to make it easier to navigate around your garden in the dark, or place them in and around borders or plant pots to make your winter shrubs stand out.
If you are wanting some gentle lighting around patios or entrances, why not give lanterns a go? Solar lanterns are available in a range of shapes, sizes and colours to suit your garden, and are great for year-round use as well as Christmas!
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Festive Plants
Gardens can look just as good during the winter months as they do during summer, with the help of winter bedding plants and shrubs. Planted containers filled with Ivy, Cyclamen, Helleborus,
Euonymus, Primrose or Ferns add colour to patios or porches and can be easily moved when they need to be protected from frost and snow. You could even try adding planted hanging baskets to bring colour to higher areas of your garden too!
Real potted Christmas trees are a brilliant way to fill large areas and make a bold impact to your garden or driveway. To go a step further, you could cover your tree with outdoor lights or even waterproof baubles – we recommend securing these tightly in the case of strong winds or rain.
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Light Up Festive Garden Décor
Bring some fun into your garden at Christmas with light up standing acrylic decorations. This type of decoration can be found in a range of styles, including snowmen, reindeer, Santa, gnomes and penguins. If you have a large lawn, you can use these decorations to add light to an open area or even create your own Christmas scene in a front garden or driveway!
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Festive Door Decorations
Making the front of your home look festive is a fantastic way to bring a little cheer to those who visit during Christmas. One of the most popular ways to decorate a front door is by adding a festive wreath, as they can be fully customisable to your taste. There are many types of artificial or real wreaths to choose from, and you can personalise them too with added baubles, berries, pine cones or lights.
To go that extra mile with your door decorations, you could take it up a notch and add a garland or archway. Garlands can be customised to match wreaths, with extra lights making them stand out even more. If you have brick pillars or metal railings, try wrapping garlands and lights around them for an alternative look. For entrances with extra room, why not use an arch to surround your door and create a magical display when entering your home?
