How to Make Herbal Holiday Decorations

Create a holiday herbal display inside a clear glass ball using regular Christmas balls, moss, a few sprigs of partridgeberry and other herbal plants.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Glass Christmas Balls
• Liquid Bleach
• Mosses And Partridgeberry
• Water
• Eyebrow Tweezers
• Paper Towels
• 1 tsp. crumbled charcoal
• 1/4 cup soilless potting mixes

1. Pull chimney top off a 2½-inch diameter Christmas ball. Save chimney top.
2. Place Christmas ball into a 1:1 solution of water and bleach and let soak overnight.
3. Rinse ball with plain water and wipe off with a paper towel. At this point, the color should come off and the ball should be clear and see-through.
4. Mix crumbled charcoal with soilless potting mixture.
5. Pour charcoal/potting mixture into ball. Fill ball half full.
6. Using tweezers, insert small amounts of trailing moss into ball.
7. Insert partrigdeberry and other herbal plant material into ball.
8. Replace chimney top.
9. Hang ball as Christmas ornament.

Tips & Warnings

• Regularly mist plant material with water.
• Hang away from direct sunlight.