The winter-proof plants in the flower box can rarely boast colorful flowers as a splash of color. With stylish winter jewelry you can spice up the basic green chord in your appearance in a colorful way. Be inspired by these decoration ideas to elegantly showcase your winter flower box.
How to decorate a winter flower box?
A wintery flower box decoration can be achieved with creative craft ideas such as colored pine cones, conifer branches sprayed with snow, pieces of birch wood and fairy lights or homemade plaster figures. In addition, hardy plants such as boxwood, privet and mountain ilex can be used and decorated with fairy lights at Christmas time.
Make your own decorations - tips for original winter decorations
Decorating the flower box stylishly for the winter is the ideal project for the whole family. When gardening is reduced to a minimum, there is plenty of free time available for leisurely crafting hours. Below we have put together a colorful collection of clever DIY ideas for you and your children:
- Collect pine cones in the forest, spray them with colors or paint them
- Cut off branches of hardy conifers and spray them with artificial snow
- Wrap birch wood pieces with fairy lights
- Form mushroom caps from white modeling clay (€8.00 on Amazon) and glue them onto wooden sticks with hot glue
You can make small figures yourself out of plaster. You can outfit the little men for winter with self-crocheted hats and scarves. Wrap wire around the feet of the mini sculptures and push it through the holes in the bottom of the flower box to secure them in place in a storm-proof manner. In this way, other decorations can also be attached to the balcony box.
Decoration and winter protection in one go - this is how it works
If you make your flower boxes winter-proof, you can also create an attractive decoration out of them. First, cover the box with bubble wrap to protect the root balls from frost. After this obligation, the freestyle follows, in which you hide the foil from the viewer's view. The following options are available:
- Wrap the balcony box with colored jute ribbons, twisting into lush knots on the front
- Lay coconut or straw mats over the film so that they extend 5-10 cm beyond the edge and tie them with jute ribbons
- Make a winter coat for the flower box from mottled grey, brown or white sheep's wool
Give your decorative winter protection the finishing touch with stickers, ribbons or fairy lights.
Tip
Do you use your balcony box as a growing area for vegetables? Then hardy plants take over the floral scepter for the cold season. Plant small box trees, privet or mountain ilex for the winter. At Christmas time, decorate the evergreen trees with fairy lights. The flower box receives a red winter coat made of fleece or jute, decorated with Christmas stickers.
