HOW TO USE FOLIAGE AS DECOR

10/28/2022

An inexpensive way to decorate is to use foliage. I like to grow things in the yard that I can, in turn, use as decor inside and out. Here are a few of the ways I have used foliage as decor around my home. As a self-diagnosed cheapskate, I’m all for anything free.

HYDRANGEA BLOOMS

Hydrangeas are both gorgeous in bloom in the summer and as they dry into the fall. While I love to bring in a bouquet of fresh flowers in the summer, I make sure to leave plenty to harvest in the fall, as well. Here I simply placed a grouping of dried hydrangeas into a unique bowl from Home Goods. It will last me from September to November as fall decor. If I really wanted to, I could save the blooms and use again next year.

TREE BRANCHES

Simple dead branches can be brought in and placed in vases. Here I added a crow for Halloween. I’ll then remove the crow and continue using through Thanksgiving.

Leaves will stay on branches as they dry for gorgeous fall colors indoors.

The branches in my ferns a few years ago would have looked cute with spiderwebs, too.

BITTERSWEET

At our last house, I grew bittersweet. These stems have been with me for over six years. I pull them out every year to use in various places around the house in the fall.

GRASSES

Various types of pampas grasses can also be cut and used inside or out.

PINECONES

We have many pine trees on our property so we are never at a loss for pinecones. Use them outdoors in my DIY aged terra cotta pots and indoors in DIY concrete bowls.

FIREWOOD

Okay, firewood isn’t necessarily foliage but it can be used as decor, also. Dirty little secret – I don’t even have a wood burning fireplace but I have logs by the fireplace..

Halloween Porch 2022 - Fire Wood Dispplay

GREENERY

Don’t even get me started on foliage for Christmas. I have a snowberry bush full of pretty white berries this year, I still want to get holly bushes, I cut stems of greenery from the pine trees and yews from the yard and I’ve been known to find gravel roads with random cedar trees that I cut for my front porch urns each year.