My mom and I ordered and donated the flowers for our church for Advent. We didn’t really know what we wanted for arrangements on the altar so we gave the florists some ideas and let them pick the plants for some baskets.
It wasn’t easy. We needed plants that could stay alive for 3 weeks but thrive without a lot of natural light and no guarantee that someone at the church would remember to water them.
We thought these baskets turned out wonderfully! I don’t know what that little tree-like plant is on the left (it’s like a fluffy miniature arborvitae), but it’s adorable.
And I’m very surprised a poinsettia stayed alive that long in those variable conditions—especially since they like a lot of light. Maybe I’m the only person the world who can’t keep a poinsettia healthy.
Speaking of which, if you stay far enough back or squint so you don’t see the crumpled brown leaves or the dead section in the back of this poinsettia, you’d think I was a success at keeping this one alive since Thanksgiving.
Stay back, that’s close enough!
And I pretended this poinsettia didn’t exist and just watered the mum when it was thirsty. Mums I can handle. Ignoring this poinsettia seemed to work. Look how happy it is! And it doesn’t even have any brown leaves!
I’m not a complete houseplant failure after all.
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The mum and poinsettia are beautiful together! Love it! Also, the other poinsettia doesn’t look too bad. The arrangement that is on the Chapel’s altar is so nice also. Will you and your Mom take them home after the holidays? You should ’cause they are so pretty. The basket is worth taking home! Have a great Christmas–and we’ll see you, hopefully, for New Year’s.
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