If you just happened to live in the country, this would be nothing more than a quick walk around the rural roads. For those of us who live in the city, cutting arm fulls of evergreen branches is a little frowned upon especially if it happens to be on the neighbours property.
So you county folks, ramble on out for a scenic walk, and gather some greenery, and the rest of us who live in town, get yourselves over to a local nursery. Grab a few bundles of mixed greenery, I used pine, huckleberry, cedar, and fir, because that's what is available here. The most difficult thing for me, was finding a empty pot, for some unexplained reason there are no empty pots in my garden. Fill a garbage bag with potting soil, dampen it a little and place it in the container, putting it in upside down makes it easier to poke in the branches. Remember to cover your white plastic bag with some moss, or if you forget to get moss, then just use some smaller bits of branches like I did afterwards.
After starting with some Huckleberry branches because they are a nice shade of burgundy, then adding in the fragrant boughs of pine, I started to work in the cedar, and the fir. You can experiment with reversing branches for a different color, and texture. Add whatever you can find, red or black berries, branches, dried perennial seed pods, go wild. The birds will love you. I am planning to put some bright red balls into this arrangement for color, but you can add anything that takes your fancy.
This ended up just outside of our patio doors, a much nicer view than the pots of dirt that we used to look at all winter. Bootsie thinks that I built it especially for him to hide under while he waits for us to open the patio door.
