What flowers can be given for the New Year, is it necessary to do it and what compositions are suitable for this holiday?
In Russia, there is no tradition of giving flowers for the New Year. However, who doesn't love a bouquet of gorgeous, fragrant flowers on this winter holiday?
It should be borne in mind that it is better to give the composition in the New Year's theme. Paper snowflakes, figures of Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, as well as artificial snow can take part in it.
Indoor flowers for the New Year
Indoor flowers are beautiful both in summer and winter, so they will be an extremely appropriate gift:
- The Christmas star is very well suited as a gift for the New Year, because its name alone gives the feeling of an upcoming holiday. A legend is associated with this plant about a young man who wanted to give Christ a flower, but he did not have enough money. And he found him under the snow. When the child brought this plant to the temple, it bloomed with delicious, bright scarlet flowers. But it should be borne in mind that the Christmas star cannot be kept in the cold for a long time, and it will have to be carefully wrapped so that it does not wither.
- Hippeastrum - usually this flower is presented as a gift for the New Year, because it is loved throughout Russia. This plant is a bit like a lily. It can be seen in old pictures or postcards.
- Decembrist - As a rule, this flower blooms in late November or late January. Another name for the plant is zygocactus. The Decembrist is unpretentious in care, like all cacti. But during the flowering process, do not touch the petals, because the plant is very fragile.
- The hellebore - when Christ was born, people carried many different gifts. And for each subsequent birthday of Christ, they gave the most valuable. But the poor shepherdess had nothing, and the Angel who saw this situation threw a snow-white flower right at her feet. This is what she presented as a gift.
What bouquet can you give for the New Year?
A great option would be a gift of roses, because this plant is considered universal and always looks aesthetically pleasing. An appropriate gift for the New Year would be a bouquet of white orchids, pink roses- they will look very bright and festive.
An excellent option would be a bouquet of cream roses, red amaryllis.
You can add not only decorative things to the compositions, but also real fruits: tangerines, apples, pineapple. A great addition - Christmas cookies, gingerbread or sweets - for a tea party for New Year's table and just a pleasant surprise.
What bouquet for the New Year to give to women?
That a bouquet of fresh flowers will become great gift for a woman for the New Year, do not even hesitate! You can donate flowers such as roses, gerberas, calla lilies, daffodils, Christmas stars, hellebores, Decembrists, hippeastrum. But this must necessarily be a thematic composition, so the floristic present will look elegant and especially appropriate.
The following combinations of shades look interesting in compositions and bouquets:
- red, green, golden;
- white, blue, greenish yellow;
- blue, white, purple, red.
It is important to consider that each shade has its own symbolism. For example:
- Green - symbolizes spruce.
- Blue, blue and white - snowdrifts, icy lace on the windows, made by frost.
- Red - symbolizes the star we usually see on decorated Christmas trees.
To create a New Year's bouquet, experts use spruce branches, large white or red roses, lilies and many other flowers. They are decorated with various decorative toys, fruits, sweets or small figurines depicting the symbol of the year.
Will especially delight women Christmas baskets with flowers, spruce twigs, tinsel, fruits and sweets. In this variety of presents, it is easy to hide the most important gift, which will become the culmination of the whole celebration.
Agree that it is on the New Year that everyone is waiting for the fulfillment of their deepest desires. So why not make, for example, an offer to your beloved girl in such an exquisite way? Or present your wife with a certificate to visit the spa she has dreamed of for so long? Imagine and give your beloved a truly magnificent surprise, decorated in fragrant flora.
You want to donate to a loved one a floral arrangement or a bouquet for the New Year? Fine! Then find out the preferences and tastes of this person, and then contact professional florists - and you will present an unexpected and pleasant surprise to a woman for this wonderful, magical holiday.
We create the New Year's mood for ourselves, and decorating a house for the New Year is the easiest way to give your monastery a fabulous, festive atmosphere. Ahead is 2018, which needs to be met especially brightly, colorfully and in good spirits. Start preparing now - many great ideas are easy to implement with your own hands!
If at normal times not every one of us is engaged in needlework, decor, embroidery and origami, then in the New Year's Eve, everyone, without exception, decorates their home. Intricate crafts can be done with the whole family with children, and this exciting activity will give you a lot positive emotions... Make your home joyful and light!
Ideas for window decoration
Meet the New Year 2018 outside the windows, painted with frost, even if the outside temperature is above zero. Window- the eyes of the house, outside they are visible to any passer-by, and inside, decorated with garlands, lanterns, snowflakes, serve as additional space for the implementation of design ideas.
- Snowflakes. Filigree work will be an exquisite decoration for your home. Paper snowflakes look very beautiful on the windows of a private house, but an apartment can also be distinguished from a number of boring window openings.
Advice! There are thousands of patterns for cutting paper snowflakes - from the simplest to the most complex. Arm yourself with comfortable scissors, be sure to think workplace and start creating window decorations. The more patterns on the plane of the paper, the more elegant the crafts look.
- Drawings. With water-washable stained glass paint and minimal artistic skills, you can create patterns that look very attractive on the outside, warm and cozy. If you are not sure of your talents, just write on the windows: "2018!", "Happy New Year!". Give your younger family members room to be creative. Don't forget to take a photo of the children in front of their work!
New Year's door
Here it is recommended to use western tradition and hang a wreath on the door of a country house from pine needles, cones and bells. The doorway is easy to decorate artificial snow, a horseshoe for luck, with paper snowflakes. You can make a composition with your own hands, but there are enough ready-made options in stores.
You can make a cardboard horseshoe yourself and decorate with tinsel, rain. On it, write congratulations to your loved ones and give them as a gift when you go to visit. Any crafts are good ideas for a presentation or its New Year's addition.
Garlands are a classic way to decorate your home
How to make a wire star
We bring to your attention another idea of home decoration for the holiday - an unusual frame star. You get a kind of 3D effect if you make crafts in different sizes.
- Take flexible wire. Bend it to form a five-pointed star.
- Prepare a sketch of the star from the photo.
- Cut it out of colored or wrapping paper and fold the edges so that they catch on the wire. Secure with tape if necessary.
- Glue the tinsel to the wire.
Stars can be hung from the ceiling in a checkerboard pattern, or you can decorate with garlands, rain, serpentine. It will hang down beautifully and create a festive atmosphere.
Advice! If you live in an apartment with high ceilings, be sure to hang something from them. This will visually narrow the space and create the effect of floating DIY jewelry.
Photo for memory
Each person has a framed photo in their home. Refresh them, give them good New Year spirit: Hang on a serpentine or thick string along the wall. Fill the free space with small balls, garlands and do-it-yourself drawings.
After the celebration, print new photos and add them to the old ones. Such a composition can stay in the apartment until the very end of January. You will love this idea, and perhaps you will leave the photos on the rope, making them a permanent interior accessory.
Balls everywhere
Ideas for the New Year are not limited to the capabilities of the needlewoman. Use themed toys, sequins, industrial decorations to decorate the room.
Balloons are a wonderful symbol of the New Year. They are different colors, sizes, shiny, matte, with a rough surface, from different materials, expensive, cheap, vintage, modern, etc. A variant of the idea is to hang them on strings from the ceiling, fix them in the window opening in the kitchen and in the living room.
Flowers in winter- this is something fantastic, when there is snow and frost outside the window, a blossoming flower on the window seems like a miracle. Plants full of life at this time of the year especially delight us, give us hope for the arrival of spring, expectation of warmth and joy.
Blooming in winter houseplants are not numerous, most species bloom in spring or summer, and pass into dormancy in winter. For any holiday, flowers are best gift or home decoration and New Year not an exception. The festive colors of winter celebrations are green, red and gold, and it is with this palette that houseplants are chosen to create a New Year's mood.
In this article, we offer a small list of New Year's ornate plants which become most decorative at this time of the year.
For whom the New Year is not acceptable without a living tree, we suggest growing homemade coniferous plant- araucaria, it is also called " indoor spruce» ... Araucaria has lush branches covered with green needles, they form a tree with a conical crown, like a Christmas tree. Araucaria can be decorated for the New Year with toys and garlands by placing a pot in the center of the room. Of course to grow home tree at least up to 1 meter high, several years should pass, since this is a slow-growing plant. At home, a coniferous tree will delight you all year round, while lush greenery perfectly refreshes and purifies the air in the room.
At home, araucaria is most often grown... In general it is unpretentious plant, which is more suitable for spacious, ventilated and not hot, bright rooms. It is especially important to maintain temperature regime, the air temperature in winter should not exceed +20 degrees, optimally +5 ... + 15 degrees, and in summer about +20. The needles need to be often sprayed, since when the air in the room is dry, the needles turn yellow and crumble. Do not place the plant in direct sunlight. Water the indoor tree regularly, without waterlogging or overwetting the substrate in the pot.
No Christmas in Europe goes by without a traditional flower - "Christmas star" or poinsettia... In our country, this New Year's flower has also come into fashion, and in December, elegant potted plants appear in all stores, in which the upper bracts are painted in red, pink, cream or White color.
The botanical name for poinsettia is euphorbia beautiful, in nature it grows like a shrub that can reach a height of three meters. For growing in pots, cuttings are rooted, which "make" bloom for the New Year holidays. Many people buy poinsettia as a long-lasting bouquet and throw it away after the plant has shed its fancy leaves. In order for the poinsettia to bloom by winter, at the beginning of autumn a special light regime is created for the plant - for at least 14 hours a day they are placed in a dark cabinet or covered with a black bag so that no light from a lamp or lanterns falls on the leaves. After about two months, the first bracts will appear on the tops of the shoots, after which the flower can not be shaded and placed on a sunny window. Poinsettia is watered after the top layer of the soil in the pot has dried; this plant does not tolerate coolness, drafts and dry air.
Associations of the New Year - a tree, toys, fun and tangerines, the smell of citrus fruits constantly hovers in the house at the end of December. A growing miniature tangerine tree in a pot, strewn with golden fruits - great decoration for the new year , besides, this plant symbolizes prosperity and happiness.
All types of citrus fruits grow well, bloom and bear fruit at home. Fragrant white flowers appear in spring or summer, and in autumn or early winter golden fruits ripen, among the shiny green leaves they look bright and elegant, like balls on a Christmas tree.
Grow any citrus can be from seeds, but it will take about 10 years before seed-derived lemons or tangerines bloom for the first time. Better to buy a grafted citrus plant that will bloom and harvest annually on the windowsill. Homemade tangerines love moderate heat, high humidity air, regular watering with acidified water.
Throughout the winter, the city streets are decorated with mountain ash with bunches of bright berries. At home you can grow "indoor mountain ash" - yardizia... it unusual plant in the form of an erect, lush bush with numerous shiny leaves, it blooms in spring with white inflorescences, and in the fall, clusters of round red berries ripen, which remain decorative all winter.
Ardisia grows well in bright diffused lighting, under normal room temperature, does not require special conditions. Water the flower so that the ground is always slightly damp. For reproduction, you can use ripe berries, from which the seeds are taken.
Ardisia berries are not poisonous, but they are not edible either, so you can not be afraid if a child or an animal tastes them.
We are not used to associating indoor plants with new year holidays, but in Europe and America, this decor option is very popular. This is simply explained: it is customary to disassemble the Christmas tree and garlands by mid-January, and spectacular green favorites will prolong the charm of the holiday for a long time, without bringing absolutely any trouble, except for timely proper watering.
Decorating a New Year's interior with bouquets of freshly cut flowers is a sign of luxury, and modern decorators actively use this technique. And flowering indoor plants are a kind of “budget option” of the same idea. In this gallery, we have collected 45 examples of original New Year's compositions with indoor plants, interesting for their flowers or type of greenery.
Some of them go on sale in December, while others can be found all year round. Some plants require special conditions, while others are absolutely unpretentious, so this factor can be taken into account when choosing.
Check out our inspirational ideas spectacular decor and add to your New Year's interior a drop of luxury, especially since it is completely inexpensive.
christmas decor with poinsettia:
New Year's decor with cyclamens:
Light and airy flowers on thin legs with a rich palette of shades, they are much more refined than many others, and find a special response in the souls of romantics. Accordingly, the New Year's decor next to the cyclamen should be just as elegant and sophisticated.
Preferred shades of jewelry: white, light pink, silver, turquoise, pale lilac, ivory.
other plants with bright colors and fruits:
The leaders of New Year's home decoration are hippeastrum, amaryllis and anthurium, because it is their flowers that most often bloom in the winter with juicy red shades that are traditionally associated with the New Year.
And in Holland and in the Scandinavian countries white is considered the symbol of this holiday, so white hyacinths and rare white amaryllis are found here before Christmas much more often than plants with red flowers.
It is logical that indoor (potted) plants with white and red flowers will also look very impressive. If you have favorites that bloom in the winter, but with flowers of different shades, just rearrange them on the occasion of the holiday in a snow-white pots.
green deciduous and coniferous indoor plants:
Probably the most unusual is the idea of transparent Christmas tree decorations with tiny plants housed in them that love the greenhouse effect.
But there are other decor techniques that are easy to implement with your own hands. Of course, coniferous indoor plants, stylized as a mini-herringbone, look perfect, but do not forget that they are still intended for the ground, and therefore do not like overheating.