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This makes me homesick for my sweetheart. He helped me gather my items for greening at Christmas. He is spending his first Christmas with Jesus. I can just smell the fresh greenery!
Your my favorite time of the twilight, sunrise, high sun, or whenever. You feel like home. Thank you for that, you have no idea. I'm a fellow Appalachian girl born and bread in the hollars and hills of West Virginia.
Such memories of my childhood when my grandparents gathered evergreen branches and berries and made wreaths and swags! I am 71 years old and hadn’t thought of this for years. Thank you!
And to think, people pay tons of money for faux greenery for Christmas decor and you have beautiful greenery near by for free. This came out beautiful! I bet it smells so good.
I watched this video and bawled all the way through it. In the old days when I was so young and we had a real tree we made wreaths for the front door and the porch. Those went with fake Christmas trees and fake wreaths but it’s a joyous memory. I miss my Mom. Thanks Tipper and Matt for sharing this with us.
Yes! Me too! The sweetest memories of my Mama and my Granmama getting ready for Christmas. Beautiful!! I still have a real tree and a friend made my door wreath. This makes me want to green up a little.
Your swag over the doorway could not be more beautiful! I don't know if the color scheme of green, red and white is intentional, but I have usually tried to have some part of my decorations with just those three colors. I don't decorate much anymore, but I do have an artificial wreath on the front door trimmed in tiny green, red and clear lights and a pretty bow. For me, the symbolism of the colors is as follows: green represents the Life Eternal paid for with the red of His Blood as white befits the Purity of His Life among us and His Sacrifice for us. This is the true meaning of Christmas.
Hey Tipper, in my mind, I can smell all that pine and greenery. You have an art for making things beautiful. Continued prayers for Granny and your family. ❤
LOVED this video so much. I always enjoy seeing you and your family, your voice is so calming I could listen to you tell stories all day. Your home is absolutely beautiful and warm and welcoming, blessings to you!
Nothing on TV as usual so going to spend a late evening with my Appalachian family and get into the Christmas spirit,god bless North Carolina Appalachia and USA 🇺🇸
I greened my house for Christmas this year for the first time ever. It was so much fun to walk through our woods and see what I could find to use for greening and then finding containers to put it all in. My swag I made to hang over the fireplace definitely looks like an amateur job but I had fun making it. I'll definitely be doing the greening of Christmas again next year.
So perdy! I love watching y'all do this! Our momma would do her house and then do ours and add red bows. It was always so special! Momma went home 2 years ago today. Her favorite time of year was Christmas. Thank you for sharing!!
I love how you go out and get the greens. Then make it into something so beautiful. I really like the swag.Thank you Matt for helping your very talented wife. God bless. Merry Christmas and I hope 2024 is a very prosperous year..Love you all...❤🎅🥀☃️❄️😅
You dressed your house beautifully, and I love your porch wreath. A little cooking oil in the palm of your hand , rub them together and most of the pine resin will come off in an old rag or paper towel . I made fir and pine wreaths years ago, every year and a woodsman gave me the tip.🌲 I am in awe of the green leafy boxwoods, holly and vines you can collect. Gorgeous!
Vegetable oil will clean pine resin off your hands and out of your hair. We collect pine nuts here in the mountains in northern NV and get covered in resin, and vegetable oil is about the only way to clean up after.
Thank you so much for inviting us into your home to watch you decorate for Christmas. I love all the greenery. I didn't put anything up for Christmas this year - all just too sad, but you brightened my day!
I love this tradition of greening! I really enjoyed watching you do this, from start to finish..If I had nice greenery around, I might do it myself...I have always loved the look of real decorations, with natural fruit, holly and greenery, like they did in colonial times..Yours reminds me of this too...Thanks for sharing!!
Mayonnaise will take the resin off your hands...it may burn a little if you have cuts but works like a charm...that's what we used in the flower shop at Christmas time working with the fresh greenery.
The decorations will be beautiful and smell wonderful. May your family and Granny have a blessed Christmas and a beautiful miracle come your way. Praying for you all and Granny.
It’s so nice spending time with you guys greening your house. I love the way you just make it up as you go along. Thank you for bringing so much joy into our home! Have a great Christmas celebration with your wonderful family!
just beautiful Tipper...you all are so artistic....such a wonderful way to celebrate Christmas and the beauty of nature at same time. Bless each one of you.
Tipper, this was so wonderful to watch everything looked so beautiful. I'm so happy that Matt and you get to spend such quality time together these memories you both will have to cherish through the years. I'm sending granny love and prayers i hope she has a wonderful Christmas and she is up to enjoying herself being surrounded by the people she loves and she is able to enjoy all her favorites foods . Sending you All Blessings 🙏 and Peace 🕊️
I love how you put together the swag. I’m in town now and miss my Grandparents farm where we could gather stuff in the woods. This really took me back. Thank you.
You are so lucky that you live in a place that you can just go outside and gather what you need to make your house look wonderful and smell so fresh. Tipper it looks awesome. Wish I could be there and smell all those delicious smells. It’s really sweet of Matt to help you. God bless you all. ❤
I love this. Magnolia is also a great addition. Another good idea is on the day of your dinner, sit tea light candles next to an old glass insulator along with some greenery and cranberries. The light and reflection is beautiful.
Absolutely love these ideas. I need to make the swag . I use to make different ones every year. This year my energy level has been null and void. Took me a week but I finally got the tree decorated. Love y'all. Congratulations on the up coming grand babies. Being a grandparent is so awesome I wish I could have done it first😅
How beautiful. I can smell the greenery all the way to Texas. We always cut fresh pine and ceader to decorate with when I was a kid. The house always smelled so good.
I just happened to think are those berries poisonous for Olive. I don’t really know but I do know about poinsettia those berries are harmful. I meant to mention to you how beautiful Grannies Christmas tree turned out I just love the things she makes. I so enjoy and like your family. It helps me not be so lonely❤
I just keep praying for a set of tires to get back to work . Bless you all. Merry Christmas Appalachia! Its so good to seeing you guys doing so well. Gives me hope. Your Chistmas
Such a rewarding pleasure to see the lovely outcome of Tipper's personality in design! My admiration towards nature is magnified with appreciation for how you "Gatheted"beauty into place !!!🌿🌿👏👏👏
I love you sharing your Appalachian traditions with us. My mother used to do this when I was younger. I have some overgrown evergreen type shrubs that need severe pruning, now I can put those cuttings to use. Thank you for reminding me of past memories I had forgotten. Everything you put together was beautiful, I especially liked the swag. Matt is such a wonderful husband helping you forage for greenery. Please keep sharing your wonderful traditions with us. Many Blessings to all.
Simple treasures from nature makes the best creations I think. And the ones you made are really lovely! Thank you so much for sharing the greening of this Christmas with all of us! Love, prayers and Blessings to you, Tipper, Granny, Matt, Corie, and Katie. ❤️🙏❤️
Love, love, love the exuberant wreath on the porch! It's absolutely beautiful. If you bought an artificial one like it in the store you'd pay $100 or more, but yours is so much prettier. I'm sure the smell wonderful. The swag is so pretty too. I've never thought of putting a swag like that over my door, but I want one for next year. Great ideas and beautiful results!
Everything is beautiful as usual Tipper. I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. I really enjoyed watching y'all creating your greenery for Christmas. I have never seen hemlock with cute little pinecones before. Your relatives near and far are very blessed to have you and your beautiful welcoming home to gather for the holidays. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕
Your wreaths & swag turned out beautiful. Also loved the arrangements you made in the vases. The ornaments with pictures Granny made are so cute. Can't wait for the babies to be added to the collection. Your videos always make my day❤
I can almost smell the evergreen boughs as I watch you work with those. I loved the branch with the tiny cones on it. Such a lovely way to bring the outside in for the season. I think I'd rather have them than a tree I like them so much. Such a simple and rewarding way to make the house more festive. The greens over the door with the pics of berries is beautiful. It's inspiring seeing how you all decorate. I love the exuberance of the wreath! It's looks so joyful that way. When I lived in Portland a bunch of us ladies would meet at someones home for our annual wreath making party. Everyone brought whatever they had for trimmings, their wreath frames, wire and ribbon. We had plenty of trimmings for everyone. We'd sing carols, enjoy Christmas goodies, spiced cider and cocoa. For several years when I lived in the city, I'd get together with my best friend Rae. She was my gardening partner in crime. We'd go around the neighborhood searching for ornamental shrubs and trees we could get permission to gather cuttings from. Next we would do we called "guerilla gathering", where we would walk along the schoolyard boundary fence on the school yard side, and clip branches that were hanging over it that we wanted. These were fair game, but we were always careful to prune so the plant would benefit and we would have more cuttings in years to come. One of our most favorite shrubs to find was the Threadleaf Golden Cypress. It's branches glowed among all the darker green leaves and red berries. It was also beautiful with American Beauty Berry but it wasn't often we found shrubs that still held the bring lavender fruit. We ended our foraging by heading out to the local country roads to find wild rose hips, Salal branches along the ditch banks and side roads. My very favorite thing to find was Hawthorn trees loaded with rich red berries. We also would find Snow berry but had to search for ones still in good shape to clip. So your gathering here reminded me of those times. They are sweet memories with one of my dearest friends. Thank you for sharing your Greening of Christmas with us.
I love all your greening. Especially your swag. Its just absolutely gorgeous. Thankyou for sharing all your hard work with everybody. Merry Christmas! God bless you and your family.❤️🌲🙏
I watch the whole video of the GREENING OF CHRISTMAS. You are a very talented lady. I loved the swag using the stick.. i use to gather stuff from the yard to use in the house. I am 89 years and no longer able to do that, but I sure enjoyed watching you.
Beautiful in that first big pot!!! All of it it pretty. Pine cones and walnuts in a RED bowl on the table. Simple and homey. You could use that beautiful bread bowl.
Tipper, what fun going along with you and Matt by video to collect the greenery. You made all the arrangements beautifully. Matt did indeed have a great idea using a stick to build your large swag greenery above the doorway. It turned out so pretty. I loved the two wreaths you made for the doors too. I was reminded years back when we first moved into our current home, how I went out to the woods behind us to cut pine and gather big pine cones to make my front porch wreath. It always was so much fun. A few times I even brought some pine in to put on my table. I haven’t done that in years, but your video has inspired me. I’m think I’m going to have to go cut me some pine to make a wreath. Oh, I made the Easy Walnut Fudge yesterday. It truly was easy and delicious. My husband thanks you!😃
Tipper, I’m from Illinois. We were always told HEMLOCK was poisonous!! Your the expert there. Can you please tell me about Hemlock? 💕🙏🙏. I I have really enjoyed watching this tutorial on using fresh greens to make swags and wreaths ❤❤. I have made pot arrangements for our family cemetery graves with fresh greens and small limbs of Birch trees , that turned out beautiful but never swags or wreaths. Thank you so much for sharing your talents and how to make these things. 💕🙏🙏
I love the way you explain rach of the plants ... This past Christmas a pine tree git trimed so the apartment building could be painted .who ever cut it just left it on the ground so i got it . Tied it all together made a garland wrapped around the post on my purch put lights in it.
Strip the bottom branches off of a few boxwood branches and stick them in one of your raised beds with nice soil and you can root some plants for your own garden. Lightly scratch the bark a bit at the bottom of your cutting with your fingernail, it encourages rooting. A great time to do it is early spring, but I bet it would still work in winter with the extra pieces. Shade them until they have sent out some roots. Make sure they stay watered when they are young. Your greening looks so festive and lovely, and I’m sure it made the house smell wonderful. The stick idea was genius, Matt. I also have that green bottle from my mom, I wonder what it originally held. 🌿🌿🌿🎄
Years ago ,I learned how to make a ,fresh greens ,wreath. You wrap the metal form with strips of fabric cut on the bias. Then you take pieces of the greens and push into the folds of fabric At the end of the season you can pull out the dead ones,Dave the wrapped metal wreath form for next year. I just finished wrapping 3 10 inch forms. I've got holly ( both male and female) a gift from a friend Boxwood, I planted. Cypress and cedar trees and in CT mountain Laurel is protected but I planted my own with the intention of harvesting it! I like " princess pine" you can pick it but it's hard to find. I ordered some from PA when it gets here I'll finish the wreaths. Decided to give one to each of my neighbors. I love the smell!!! Hate the pitch, and the stickerys!!!! I dont have evergreens I see white pine but it's not in my yard!!!
Tipper we went to the flower shop last night for a porch pot class. The ladies there gave us hand sanitizer to take the pine pitch off. It worked great!
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This makes me homesick for my sweetheart. He helped me gather my items for greening at Christmas. He is spending his first Christmas with Jesus. I can just smell the fresh greenery!
So sorry. Your sweetheart now is with Jesus and he sleeps with the angels. Blessings to you. 😇
God bless you. My sweetheart is spending his third Christmas with Jesus. Christmas is tough without them isn't it.
God Bless
My Momma is in Heaven dancing with angels too. She went in 2014 and Daddy in 2015. I know they're happy, being together adain.God bless àll of you..❤
Bless you! I know you miss him terribly.
Your my favorite time of the twilight, sunrise, high sun, or whenever. You feel like home. Thank you for that, you have no idea. I'm a fellow Appalachian girl born and bread in the hollars and hills of West Virginia.
Thank you!
I feel the same way. Tipper reminds me so much of my oldest sister. She lives in TX, and I live in western NC. Too far away. This channel is my peace.
Those arrangements really turned out great! You’ve inspired me for next year 😊
Such memories of my childhood when my grandparents gathered evergreen branches and berries and made wreaths and swags! I am 71 years old and hadn’t thought of this for years. Thank you!
Love the She Hollies Best ❤❤
And to think, people pay tons of money for faux greenery for Christmas decor and you have beautiful greenery near by for free. This came out beautiful! I bet it smells so good.
I watched this video and bawled all the way through it. In the old days when I was so young and we had a real tree we made wreaths for the front door and the porch. Those went with fake Christmas trees and fake wreaths but it’s a joyous memory. I miss my Mom. Thanks Tipper and Matt for sharing this with us.
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Bless you! I love all your memories!
Ahh, sorry about missing your Mom. I also had a good cry during this missing my Mother terribly! God Bless you and Merry Christmas 🎄
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Yes! Me too! The sweetest memories of my Mama and my Granmama getting ready for Christmas. Beautiful!! I still have a real tree and a friend made my door wreath. This makes me want to green up a little.
Your swag over the doorway could not be more beautiful! I don't know if the color scheme of green, red and white is intentional, but I have usually tried to have some part of my decorations with just those three colors. I don't decorate much anymore, but I do have an artificial wreath on the front door trimmed in tiny green, red and clear lights and a pretty bow. For me, the symbolism of the colors is as follows: green represents the Life Eternal paid for with the red of His Blood as white befits the Purity of His Life among us and His Sacrifice for us. This is the true meaning of Christmas.
That turned out so lovely. Thank you, Tipper and Matt for inviting us in to help green up your home. It was wonderful!
Everything turned out so beautiful 🤗
“Tremulous” what a great word used to describe that dogs bark. ❤
Hey Tipper, in my mind, I can smell all that pine and greenery. You have an art for making things beautiful. Continued prayers for Granny and your family. ❤
What a lovely tradition, I can imagine how fragrant all that greenery is ❤
LOVED this video so much. I always enjoy seeing you and your family, your voice is so calming I could listen to you tell stories all day. Your home is absolutely beautiful and warm and welcoming, blessings to you!
Thank you 😊
Nothing on TV as usual so going to spend a late evening with my Appalachian family and get into the Christmas spirit,god bless North Carolina Appalachia and USA 🇺🇸
Thank you for watching!
I greened my house for Christmas this year for the first time ever. It was so much fun to walk through our woods and see what I could find to use for greening and then finding containers to put it all in. My swag I made to hang over the fireplace definitely looks like an amateur job but I had fun making it. I'll definitely be doing the greening of Christmas again next year.
That is wonderful!!
You did a beautiful job Tipper!!! You are so creative and each green decoration is made with love ❤
Thank you so much 🤗
I've never heard of that before -- "greening of Christmas." I like the concept.
So perdy! I love watching y'all do this! Our momma would do her house and then do ours and add red bows. It was always so special! Momma went home 2 years ago today. Her favorite time of year was Christmas. Thank you for sharing!!
I love how you go out and get the greens. Then make it into something so beautiful. I really like the swag.Thank you Matt for helping your very talented wife. God bless. Merry Christmas and I hope 2024 is a very prosperous year..Love you all...❤🎅🥀☃️❄️😅
You dressed your house beautifully, and I love your porch wreath. A little cooking oil in the palm of your hand , rub them together and most of the pine resin will come off in an old rag or paper towel . I made fir and pine wreaths years ago, every year and a woodsman gave me the tip.🌲 I am in awe of the green leafy boxwoods, holly and vines you can collect. Gorgeous!
No better sound to a rabbit hunter than the sweet bark of a hound
For me, the preparations for Christmas are the best part. My dear mother, who has been in heaven for 45 years truly loved getting ready for it! ❤❤
They are so much prettier than store bought
What a lovely tradition. I bet the house smells so fresh and wintery. You did a great job on everything.
Vegetable oil will clean pine resin off your hands and out of your hair. We collect pine nuts here in the mountains in northern NV and get covered in resin, and vegetable oil is about the only way to clean up after.
Thanks for the tip!
The swag and wreaths turned out so beautiful! I love the greenery in the vases too! So festive!
Thank you so much for inviting us into your home to watch you decorate for Christmas. I love all the greenery. I didn't put anything up for Christmas this year - all just too sad, but you brightened my day!
You are so welcome!
I love this tradition of greening! I really enjoyed watching you do this, from start to finish..If I had nice greenery around, I might do it myself...I have always loved the look of real decorations, with natural fruit, holly and greenery, like they did in colonial times..Yours reminds me of this too...Thanks for sharing!!
Mayonnaise will take the resin off your hands...it may burn a little if you have cuts but works like a charm...that's what we used in the flower shop at Christmas time working with the fresh greenery.
Merry Christmas ❤❤❤🌹✝️🙏💕🎄🎄🎄
To the family!!! Enjoy relax nd take in the moment of our Saviour Birth❤✝️. We need Christ more than ever🇨🇦🌹✝️🌹✝️🙌🇺🇸
The decorations will be beautiful and smell wonderful. May your family and Granny have a blessed Christmas and a beautiful miracle come your way. Praying for you all and Granny.
It’s so nice spending time with you guys greening your house. I love the way you just make it up as you go along. Thank you for bringing so much joy into our home! Have a great Christmas celebration with your wonderful family!
Thanks so much 😀
just beautiful Tipper...you all are so artistic....such a wonderful way to celebrate Christmas and the beauty of nature at same time. Bless each one of you.
Every Thing Looks Beautiful ❤
Tipper, you always make your house look so festive with all the greenery.
Thank you!
I love how you decorate with greenery from nature. Everything looks so lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much 😊
Tipper, this was so wonderful to watch everything looked so beautiful. I'm so happy that Matt and you get to spend such quality time together these memories you both will have to cherish through the years. I'm sending granny love and prayers i hope she has a wonderful Christmas and she is up to enjoying herself being surrounded by the people she loves and she is able to enjoy all her favorites foods .
Sending you All Blessings 🙏 and Peace 🕊️
Your Christmas spirit is infectious! Thanks for another sweet holiday video. I really enjoy them. God bless!
I love how you put together the swag. I’m in town now and miss my Grandparents farm where we could gather stuff in the woods. This really took me back. Thank you.
You are so lucky that you live in a place that you can just go outside and gather what you need to make your house look wonderful and smell so fresh. Tipper it looks awesome. Wish I could be there and smell all those delicious smells. It’s really sweet of Matt to help you. God bless you all. ❤
Everything looks beautiful. You did a great job as usual.
I love this. Magnolia is also a great addition. Another good idea is on the day of your dinner, sit tea light candles next to an old glass insulator along with some greenery and cranberries. The light and reflection is beautiful.
Great tip!
I love the greening of Christmas. My mom was good at decorating, like Tipper. Lots of good memories. God bless you all.
Absolutely love these ideas. I need to make the swag . I use to make different ones every year. This year my energy level has been null and void. Took me a week but I finally got the tree decorated. Love y'all. Congratulations on the up coming grand babies. Being a grandparent is so awesome I wish I could have done it first😅
That dog was trying to yodel. Much love and many prayers from South Alabama. Merry Christmas to you all!
How beautiful. I can smell the greenery all the way to Texas. We always cut fresh pine and ceader to decorate with when I was a kid. The house always smelled so good.
I just happened to think are those berries poisonous for Olive. I don’t really know but I do know about poinsettia those berries are harmful. I meant to mention to you how beautiful Grannies Christmas tree turned out I just love the things she makes. I so enjoy and like your family. It helps me not be so lonely❤
Everything looks so beautiful! The swag is a showstopper!!!!🌲🌿
Tipper ,you are so talented. You could work in a greenhouse. Your home is very beautiful 😍
You are so kind! Thank you 😊
I love watching your Greening of Christmas videos!! Your talent is endless. The swag, the most beautiful one I've ever seen!! ❤👍🙏🥰
Beautiful arrangements.
Ya’all make a great team!
Well done!
You all gather for sometime being poor is a blessing.. god bless you all🎄
I just keep praying for a set of tires to get back to work . Bless you all. Merry Christmas Appalachia! Its so good to seeing you guys doing so well. Gives me hope. Your Chistmas
Thank you and I will pray for you to get tires too!
What a fantastic job. Just love everything you did.
Oh, the greening looks so beautiful!
Such a rewarding pleasure to see the lovely outcome of Tipper's personality in design!
My admiration towards nature is magnified with appreciation for how you "Gatheted"beauty into place !!!🌿🌿👏👏👏
Thank you 😊
I love you sharing your Appalachian traditions with us. My mother used to do this when I was younger. I have some overgrown evergreen type shrubs that need severe pruning, now I can put those cuttings to use. Thank you for reminding me of past memories I had forgotten. Everything you put together was beautiful, I especially liked the swag. Matt is such a wonderful husband helping you forage for greenery. Please keep sharing your wonderful traditions with us. Many Blessings to all.
Simple treasures from nature makes the best creations I think. And the ones you made are really lovely! Thank you so much for sharing the greening of this Christmas with all of us! Love, prayers and Blessings to you, Tipper, Granny, Matt, Corie, and Katie. ❤️🙏❤️
Love, love, love the exuberant wreath on the porch! It's absolutely beautiful. If you bought an artificial one like it in the store you'd pay $100 or more, but yours is so much prettier. I'm sure the smell wonderful. The swag is so pretty too. I've never thought of putting a swag like that over my door, but I want one for next year. Great ideas and beautiful results!
You can't know how much you Bless me, your house is Beautiful, Thank You Tipper. God Bless.💕&🙏🙏'ers for Granny.🙏🙏 Jean
Thank Jean!! Hope you are having a good week!!
That, that you're doing above the door. That's REAL PRETTY ❤❤
As you said that about the beagle, mine perked right up and is barking now, lol
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Everything is beautiful as usual Tipper. I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. I really enjoyed watching y'all creating your greenery for Christmas. I have never seen hemlock with cute little pinecones before. Your relatives near and far are very blessed to have you and your beautiful welcoming home to gather for the holidays. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕
Looks absolutely beautiful nothing better I’m worried more than making your own decorations in your own master pieces for the holidays 🎄✝️❤️
Your wreaths & swag turned out beautiful. Also loved the arrangements you made in the vases. The ornaments with pictures Granny made are so cute. Can't wait for the babies to be added to the collection. Your videos always make my day❤
I love the beautifull wildness of the greening of Christmas❤. Thank you for sharing. Cheers from a retired American expat in Quito, Ecuador😊
❤enjoyed the greening matt and tipper!❤❤❤😊❤❤❤
Beautiful, just Beautiful Tipper & Matt.Thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you for watching!
I can almost smell the evergreen boughs as I watch you work with those. I loved the branch with the tiny cones on it. Such a lovely way to bring the outside in for the season. I think I'd rather have them than a tree I like them so much. Such a simple and rewarding way to make the house more festive. The greens over the door with the pics of berries is beautiful. It's inspiring seeing how you all decorate. I love the exuberance of the wreath! It's looks so joyful that way.
When I lived in Portland a bunch of us ladies would meet at someones home for our annual wreath making party. Everyone brought whatever they had for trimmings, their wreath frames, wire and ribbon. We had plenty of trimmings for everyone. We'd sing carols, enjoy Christmas goodies, spiced cider and cocoa.
For several years when I lived in the city, I'd get together with my best friend Rae. She was my gardening partner in crime. We'd go around the neighborhood searching for ornamental shrubs and trees we could get permission to gather cuttings from. Next we would do we called "guerilla gathering", where we would walk along the schoolyard boundary fence on the school yard side, and clip branches that were hanging over it that we wanted. These were fair game, but we were always careful to prune so the plant would benefit and we would have more cuttings in years to come. One of our most favorite shrubs to find was the Threadleaf Golden Cypress. It's branches glowed among all the darker green leaves and red berries. It was also beautiful with American Beauty Berry but it wasn't often we found shrubs that still held the bring lavender fruit. We ended our foraging by heading out to the local country roads to find wild rose hips, Salal branches along the ditch banks and side roads. My very favorite thing to find was Hawthorn trees loaded with rich red berries. We also would find Snow berry but had to search for ones still in good shape to clip. So your gathering here reminded me of those times. They are sweet memories with one of my dearest friends. Thank you for sharing your Greening of Christmas with us.
Such beautiful memories! Thank you for sharing them 😀
I love all your greening. Especially your swag. Its just absolutely gorgeous. Thankyou for sharing all your hard work with everybody. Merry Christmas! God bless you and your family.❤️🌲🙏
Tipper I really love everything you have done for the Greening of Christmas. Matt had a Great idea of using the stick to make the swag with.😊❤❤
I love the swag over the doorway going into the living room
I too have woods that surrounds my home and love being able to have free access to all the decorations I need. Beautiful job Tipper on that swag!
LOL! The dog sounds like he's been taking lessons from a barred owl! :D
I love the over the door way wreath. I thought it was gonna hang down .but this is beautiful.
Tipper your "greening of Christmas" is just lovely.
The wreaths and the swagg is amazing. Beautiful.
I watch the whole video of the GREENING OF CHRISTMAS. You are a very talented lady. I loved the swag using the stick.. i use to gather stuff from the yard to use in the house. I am 89 years and no longer able to do that, but I sure enjoyed watching you.
Thank you so much!
Love to craft the way you do. Just start and see where all the green takes you. Yours turned out beautifully 🌲
Beautiful in that first big pot!!! All of it it pretty. Pine cones and walnuts in a RED bowl on the table. Simple and homey. You could use that beautiful bread bowl.
The wreaths and swag are gorgeous…no need for Hobby Lobby when you have all that beautiful greenery…Merry Christmas ❤
Tipper, what fun going along with you and Matt by video to collect the greenery. You made all the arrangements beautifully. Matt did indeed have a great idea using a stick to build your large swag greenery above the doorway. It turned out so pretty. I loved the two wreaths you made for the doors too. I was reminded years back when we first moved into our current home, how I went out to the woods behind us to cut pine and gather big pine cones to make my front porch wreath. It always was so much fun. A few times I even brought some pine in to put on my table. I haven’t done that in years, but your video has inspired me. I’m think I’m going to have to go cut me some pine to make a wreath. Oh, I made the Easy Walnut Fudge yesterday. It truly was easy and delicious. My husband thanks you!😃
It all looks so beautiful Tipper. It made everything look alive and bright. Just beautifu❤️
Tipper, I’m from Illinois. We were always told HEMLOCK was poisonous!! Your the expert there. Can you please tell me about Hemlock? 💕🙏🙏. I I have really enjoyed watching this tutorial on using fresh greens to make swags and wreaths ❤❤. I have made pot arrangements for our family cemetery graves with fresh greens and small limbs of Birch trees , that turned out beautiful but never swags or wreaths. Thank you so much for sharing your talents and how to make these things. 💕🙏🙏
Thank you! There is a plant called hemlock that is very poisonous but it’s different than the tree 😀
What kind of pots did you use?
I say it all the time...I so love watching your videos ❤❤❤❤
Thank you 😊
This has got me wanting to go get greenery at my Mom and Dad’s place; where they lived before they went Home. Love everything you got Tipper.
It all turned out beautiful. I bet your house smells heavenly. Yall have a blessed night.
I love listening to Beagles bay, what a treat!
Tipper, I love your positive attitude. Everything is pretty and lovely.
Absolutely love this never heard of greening of Christmas and I'm so glad you finally got to do it
Thank you! This is from last year but I did get to green the house over the weekend. Hope to share the video soon 😊
I love the way you explain rach of the plants ... This past Christmas a pine tree git trimed so the apartment building could be painted .who ever cut it just left it on the ground so i got it . Tied it all together made a garland wrapped around the post on my purch put lights in it.
That sounds so pretty 😊
SO BEAUTIFUL ❤
Matt and Tipper your just wonderful
Very nice video Tipper! Praying for your mother and everyone! Merry Christmas to you all!
Strip the bottom branches off of a few boxwood branches and stick them in one of your raised beds with nice soil and you can root some plants for your own garden. Lightly scratch the bark a bit at the bottom of your cutting with your fingernail, it encourages rooting. A great time to do it is early spring, but I bet it would still work in winter with the extra pieces. Shade them until they have sent out some roots. Make sure they stay watered when they are young. Your greening looks so festive and lovely, and I’m sure it made the house smell wonderful. The stick idea was genius, Matt. I also have that green bottle from my mom, I wonder what it originally held. 🌿🌿🌿🎄
Great tip! Thank you!
Years ago ,I learned how to make a ,fresh greens ,wreath. You wrap the metal form with strips of fabric cut on the bias. Then you take pieces of the greens and push into the folds of fabric
At the end of the season you can pull out the dead ones,Dave the wrapped metal wreath form for next year. I just finished wrapping 3 10 inch forms. I've got holly ( both male and female) a gift from a friend
Boxwood, I planted. Cypress and cedar trees and in CT mountain Laurel is protected but I planted my own with the intention of harvesting it! I like " princess pine" you can pick it but it's hard to find. I ordered some from PA when it gets here I'll finish the wreaths. Decided to give one to each of my neighbors. I love the smell!!! Hate the pitch, and the stickerys!!!! I dont have evergreens I see white pine but it's not in my yard!!!
Tipper we went to the flower shop last night for a porch pot class. The ladies there gave us hand sanitizer to take the pine pitch off. It worked great!
You always help bring back great memories. I sure your house has a great smell of pine and nature.
I Love the back porch wreath. It looks like it’s at a wild party. Celebrating life!!
We don’t celebrate Christmas. But we do celebrate life!!