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Selection of plants from £8.99
Trade the tinsel!

Replace your Christmas tree with

new year greenery

Dobbies highlights how to fill your Christmas tree gap this January.

ow that we’re into 2024 and Christmas trees
are down, our homes can be left feeling
Na little empty. Dobbies, the UK’s leading
garden centre, believes that January is the perfect
time to put your houseplants centre stage and
create a green display to fill your Christmas tree void.

Forget festive baubles and twinkling lights, Dobbies
says the new year is all about embracing fresh
foliage, and the garden centre’s Senior Houseplant
Buyer, Claire Bishop, has tips on how to breathe life
into your home with plants.

Claire says: “Our Christmas trees and decorations
take up a lot of space, so when these come down,
our homes can suddenly feel bare. A great way to
avoid this is by replacing your festive centrepiece
with a large houseplant to bring your space back
to life.

“Tall standing houseplants like the Dypsis lutescens, “In addition to larger houseplants, if you’re the floor or a table to bulk out your display
or areca palm, are wonderful for filling an empty looking to fill a large space, clustering and create dimension with varying textures
corner of your home and making an instant impact. together plants of varying shapes and sizes and tones. If you’re looking to add a pop
These elegant houseplants are low maintenance, is an easy way to create a full, jungle-style of colour, the cyclamen is a wonderful
making them ideal for beginner houseplant parents, effect. Trailing plants like the Ceropegia choice for January plant displays and will
and do well in a bright spot planted in a good potting woodii, or string of hearts, make an impact inject a fabulous burst of pink vibrancy to lift
compost. As well as looking great, the Dypsis when planted in hanging containers and do your mood.”
lutescens is a proven air purifier, making it a useful a great job of filling a space if you have high
addition to homes in winter when it’s too cold to ceilings. Smaller green plants like the calathea To explore Dobbies’ new houseplant collection
Large Areca from £39.99, Calathea from £12.99 keep windows open. and monstera can be grouped together on for 2024, visit dobbies.com.

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