Christmas Topiary Ideas: What Are the Best Plants for Christmas Topiary
Christmas topiary trees are a good option for anyone who finds the sight of chopped Christmas trees discarded on the sidewalk in January depressing. These miniature trees are made from other evergreens, such as boxwood, or perennial herbs. They are useful as a Christmas tree.
Continue reading if you’re interested in indoor topiary for Christmas. We’ll provide you with some fantastic ideas for Christmas topiaries so you can get started creating your own.
Christmas topiaries with plants
Sick of purchasing precut trees for Christmas? You’re not by yourself. It seems strange to kill a tree in order to celebrate Christmas, even though these trees may have been raised specifically for that purpose. However, artificial trees lack that organic quality, and not everyone has a large enough backyard to grow potted spruce in the summertime.
Which brings us to the idea of using topiary Christmas trees. These are live plants that are shaped like trees and can be used to decorate your home all winter long in addition to being festive for the holidays. You can move a perennial herb you choose for a topiary tree into the herb garden in the spring.
Creating a Topiary for Christmas
A topiary: what is it? Consider them as living sculptures created by cutting, trimming, and sculpting a plant’s foliage into desired forms. It’s possible that you’ve seen topiary bushes shaped like balls.
Choosing a plant you like is the first step towards creating a Christmas topiary. Rosmarinus officinalis, or rosemary, is arguably the most widely used plant for indoor topiary trees during the Christmas season. This charming and fragrant herb grows naturally upright into a small needle-leafed tree.
Furthermore, rosemary grows well in a garden or in a container, so it will be easy to transition from a topiary to a herb garden. A well-established rosemary plant is visually pleasing and resistant to drought.
Take a cutting of rosemary or another perennial plant, root it, and train the small plant to grow upward by pruning off lateral buds to create a topiary for your Christmas tree. After the plant reaches the desired height, pinch back the side branches to encourage a dense “Christmas tree” appearance. Otherwise, leave them to fill out.
