Gardener's Garden

Using Mother Nature’s Bounty

How to decorate with found objects.

In these last days of the year, as darkness falls earlier and earlier, we try to lighten our spirits by festooning our homes with sparkling lights and evergreen boughs. We gardeners scour our gardens for natural decorations, and trade with our gardening friends for those special beauties not found in our own yards. I am lucky to live on a wooded lot replete with rhododendron, mahonia, juniper, eastern white pines and a magnificent magnolia. I have a number of large rosemary bushes and two lavender bushes that can easily yield up some fragrant boughs. I trade cut branches of these evergreens with my even luckier gardening friends whose lots have evergreen hollies bursting with berries and deciduous hollies like winterberry holly whose fat …

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Eleni Silverman

9:25 am on Tuesday, December 18, 2012

And so much more fun "shopping" for decorations in the fresh air!   more ›

Christmas Tree Sales for a Cause

Proceeds from sale of holiday trees and wreaths help local charities.

The Mount Vernon Kiwanis are out in force this holiday season selling Christmas trees for a cause. The group helps local children by working with various programs at local charities, schools and churches. Kiwanian Jim Zaletel and Kyle Hayden, a student at Northern Virginia Community College, were selling trees this week at the lot.  The group is selling holiday wreaths as well as Christmas trees for $10 a foot. The group has a Christmas tree lot with 800 trees to sell, located at the Belle View Shopping Center parking lot.  All of the trees are Fraser Firs from southwestern Virginia. The tree lot hours are:

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