Portland Nursery Holidays

I think every holiday should be celebrated with a fresh tree. If that's not your style or simply not an option, consider celebrating the Portland holidays with other plants. Fresh mistletoe is always very festive and romantic. A lot of people confuse mistletoe and holly, thinking the red berries are mistletoe, but actually the white berried garlands are the mistletoe sprigs. Holly is quite festive as well, though, and really spruces us Portland holidays. Poinsettias aren't quite as popular, though there is something comfortingly familiar and festive about their bright red leaves. But there is another aspect to consider as well.

Plants can make great Christmas gifts for your Portland holidays. Even if you are simply taking your Portland holidays away from home and you live somewhere else, you can still purchase or order online a nice plant or tree of some kind. A small bonzai or bamboo can be very hardy and portable. A rose bush ready at home when you return can be romantic. Perhaps buying a rose on the day itself, to represent the gift itself. Or, if you are of the charitable turn, you can mark your Portland holidays with a gift of a tree or other plant to a small village or dying forest somewhere halfway around the world.

Or just purchase some plants to mark the Portland holidays while you are there, and then donate them back to a nursery or a park upon your departure. This can really spruce up a rented cottage or even a hotel room over your Portland holidays. As exciting and exotic as it can be, celebrating on a trip far away from home, it is also important around the holidays to have something of the familiar and traditional, even if it is a little nod to history like holly and mistletoe. This is especially true for those of us who have family members that are either old or young, or very conservative.

And remember, for those business owners struggling to get by this holiday season (and every holiday season), your support of their business can be one of the best expressions of happy Portland holidays that you can give them. It may not be something we all think about around the holidays, when ordinarily we think only of new toys, gadgets, clothes, and games, but it could be a really interesting new tradition to introduce, one that would always remind you of your happy Portland holidays!