How to Make Herbal Holiday Decorations

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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

Step1
Pull chimney top off a 2½-inch diameter Christmas ball. Save chimney top.
Step2
Place Christmas ball into a 1:1 solution of water and bleach and let soak overnight.
Step3
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.
Step4
Mix crumbled charcoal with soilless potting mixture.
Step5
Pour charcoal/potting mixture into ball. Fill ball half full.
Step6
Using tweezers, insert small amounts of trailing moss into ball.
Step7
Insert partrigdeberry and other herbal plant material into ball.
Step8
Replace chimney top.
Step9
Hang ball as Christmas ornament.

Tips & Warnings

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

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