A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2006 Dressing Up House Plants For Christmas

A few days ago in the House plant forum, I replied to Mike "The plant Doc" after he'd posted a cute excerpt from his radio talk show, concerning the do's and dont's of giving plants as gifts for Christmas. (See his post: "Plants as gifts!") In my reply I asked him if he thought that sprinkling body glitter on the leaves of Christmas gift plants, to make them look festive, would hurt them.
He sent me a PM in reply, which reads as follows:
I think he PM'd me, rather than posting his reply on the Forum, because he didn't know first-hand if the glitter would do any harm, which I can appreciate, but I've decided that his answer made sense, so I decided to share it with you all.

After thinking about it, I remember how hard it is to wash body glitter completely off a person , so maybe besides blocking the pores, just getting it all off the leaves would probably do even more damage to a plant!

So, here's what I decided to do:

(tiny ornaments-$1.00)
Thanx Mike, for making me think!

OUCH!

Patty.....I'm with you!!! I just hung some little ornaments all over my rubber plant in the kitchen...It looks pretty cool!

That is a really great idea Patty!

Patty S, just who did you have to wash body glitter off us - you party girl you.


I never thought of decorating my house plants. Cute idea.

What a great idea. I always get plants for Christmas that are meant to be around just for the season and never think to dress up what I already have on hand.

so glad i looked at this. i'm going to try to get my plants "prettied" up for the holidats... now that i am actually messing with them again!

One year I used my Ficus tree as my Christmas tree....I waited too long to go get one and they were all pitiful, so... VOILA!! A few lights, some ornaments....the kids loved it! (We had Doug's then 14 year old and Summer at the time) I may just do that this year to keep Mack from breaking the glass balls I have.

What a great idea Patty and it looks so cute~~!

That looks very festive

My rubber tree is decked out again this year, I'll have to post a pic of it.

Please do, I wanna see it;-)

Me too....pics please Loz!!

Yep I wanna see that too. I also want to see how yours looks compared to the one I am growing. Just to see what they look like all grwon up!

I'll have a pic soon...my camera broke....

Patty, that looks so festive!

Laura, maybe Santa will bring you a new camera this year...

Dianna

It's a good possibility!

Hope so Loz:-)

Between Mackenna and Dodger- we have just about decided that this is our tree this year...

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Notice- the ornaments are on the top of the plant to keep "little" hands and paws off of them.

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Kinda pitiful, huh? There are lights, too- but you can't see them because I forgot to turn off the flash....

Great job Summer

She did great;-) Looks cool!

Thanks all! She loves it! I am proud of her- she put the ornaments up on top all by herself....such a good big sister!

I bet she feels so proud!That is neat:-)

That looks good Tonya! Great job Summer!

That is so cute Tonya, tell her she did good!

You know, it's awful hard decorating a rubber plant.....I had to invent places to hang things...on the ends of leaves and stuff....

How cute Loz!!