There are several beautiful Christmas flowers that you can use to create a flower arrangement for your holiday decorating!

You can always use silk flowers instead of fresh, but if you have access to fresh flowers, these are preferable.

First of all, decide where you want to use your Christmas flower arrangement. For instance, if you want to place one on a hall table, it could be tall. On the other hand, if you want to use it on your dinner table, you would probably want a relatively short arrangement so that people could see over it.

Where and how you intend to use your arrangement will determine the size.

Let’s say that you want a beautiful arrangement of Christmas flowers on a table in your entrance hall, so that holiday visitors will see it as soon as they come into your home.

For this location, there are several possible flowers and plants that would work quite well in creating a charming arrangement.

You might begin with a large poinsettia in traditional red, or choose one of the new shades of white or even pink.

Place the potted poinsettia, pot and all, into a large rustic type basket that is large enough to hold the poinsettia and other flowers. Line the basket with heavy plastic first, and then place a round clay flower pot drainage bottom of the kind that sits under a regular clay pot. You will need the plastic and the clay flower pot bottom to prevent water from seeping out onto your table when you water the fresh poinsettia.

Make sure that the basket you choose is large enough to hold other flowers that will be around the poinsettia.

Next, add sphagnum moss all around the pot, surrounding the poinsettia, and moisten it well.

Then, start adding some fresh greenery such as ivy or holly branches with berries, sticking the ends down into the moist sphagnum moss, all around the poinsettia.

Use whatever greenery you have at hand or can pick up at the local nursery. If you don’t have holly or ivy, you can use small branches of almost any sort of evergreen bush or tree.

At this point, if you want to; you can add some small Christmas ornaments such as bells, balls or whatever, among the greenery surrounding the poinsettia.

If the basket has a handle, wrap some festive Christmas ribbon around it and tie a big bow on top or at one side.

If you have access to other fresh flowers, you can insert the stems into the moist sphagnum moss, and the entire arrangement will stay fresh and pretty for quite some time. Just be sure to keep the moss moist at all times.

If you don’t want to use a rustic basket and want a more sophisticated look, you can use a big crystal or cut glass bowl or almost any container that is large enough to hold the potted poinsettia in the center.

Christmas flower arrangements say “Happy Holidays” to all!