Christmas Tree Topper Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Christmas Tree Topper Highlights The Top Of Your Tree
By Suzzie T Franklin
Christmas tree topper is the highlight on your Christmas tree.
Some people like to place a star, an angel or a large ornament
to highlight the top of the Christmas tree. You can decorate your
tree with Christmas ornaments, decorative lights and then the
topper tells the viewer, you have reached the top.
You may like to decorate a living tree in your front yard. If
you have a pine tree in your front yard, it may make an ideal
Christmas tree. Use strong wires to hold your decorations to ensure
they can withstand wind, rain and other weather elements, in order
to avoid your decorations flying all over your neighbourhood.
Christmas Is One Of The Busiest Times Of The Year
Even if you are not all that religious, getting ready for Christmas
is still one of the most elaborate and difficult tasks of the
year. You need to review your options with a Christmas tree, a
nativity scene, outdoor and indoor Christmas lights, antique ornaments
passed down in your family, and, of course, Christmas gifts.
Then there is all the preparation involved in sending out holiday
cards, preparing a fancy holiday meal, and getting your clothes
ready for the trip to church. But to me, the most important part
is the figure that, both literally and symbolically sits above
everything else: the Christmas tree topper.
Different Christmas Tree Topper Every Year
Most families have a Christmas tree topper that they use every
year, but in my family it was different. One year, we would have
a Christmas tree angel, while the next year we would use a Christmas
star. A few years ago, we actually had a pretty outlandish Christmas
tree topper. We decided to make something by hand all together,
but we could not decide on a theme.
My sister wanted to make a Christmas tree star, while my brother
wanted to make one of the camels that the wise men were riding.
I thought it would be nice to make a pumpkin (I was still in a
Halloween mood) and my father and mother wanted to make a turkey
and an angel respectively.
One Of The Most Outlandish
What we finally decided was to each make a part of it. What we
ended up with was one of the most outlandish Christmas tree toppers
ever made. It had different faces, shapes, and body parts sticking
out at every angle imaginable. We loved it, but objectively speaking,
it was just a little bit terrifying. One of my good friends brought
her 5 year old son over and, when he saw it, he started to cry
right away.
Of course, most people have much more conventional tastes than
that! Usually, an angel Christmas ornament or a Christmas light
star looks best at the top of a tree, but it is nice to be able
to mix it up every now and again. Just make sure that, if your
Christmas tree topper is a family heirloom, you are always careful
about putting it up.
It might seem like a good idea to let your youngest son be a
big boy and climb up on the stepladder with the Christmas star
but, when he drops it and breaks it, no one is going to be all
that happy about it!
Living Christmas Tree In The Front Yard
Especially if the Christmas tree is outside and the neighbours
are watching. You also do not want to cause injury to the youngest,
and he may spend Christmas Day in hospital with fractures, along
with a smashed Christmas tree topper. So it may be better for
one of the grown ups to go up there and be careful when placing
the topper on top of the tree.
We have a beautiful living pine tree in the front yard. It is
like a dwarf tree, so it is not one of those huge pine trees you
see in pine forests, but every year, we decorate it with Christmas
ornaments and it stands out in the yard. Especially when it gets
dark and all the decorator lights come on. It might not be the
biggest and brightest in the neighbourhood, but it meets our needs
for this time of the year. I look forward to decorating it every
year.
We use a smaller indoor bonsai tree, that we decorate with a
small number of ornaments, to avoid weighing it down as it is
so tiny, but it is so beautiful and looks like pet with a new
coat. Every year we place a little Christmas tree topper at the
top of the bonsai tree.
About the Author:
Suzzie T Franklin has written a number of articles on trees, gardening and landscaping including
Bamboo Plants,
The Japanese Garden,
Zen Garden,
Flower Gardening,
Planting Guide,
Cherry Blossom,
African Violets,
Wire Topiary Frames.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
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