This year, of course you don’t want to miss a warm Christmas moment with your family. To bring a Christmas atmosphere into your home, you can start by adding festive Christmas decorations and ornaments. Start changing pillowcases with red colors and patterns, hanging flower arrangements on doors, adding decorative lights and also a Christmas tree. However, if you are a plant lover, decorating your home with Christmas-style decorative plants can also be an option. Not only evergreen trees, the following types of ornamental plants can be an option to decorate a room at Christmas.

Kastuba Plant
Kastuba is an ornamental plant with bright red leaves. This plant is often related to Christmas. Not only red, this plant has various types with pink and light yellow leaf colors. This is a tropical plant that grows well in the sun with humid temperatures between 65 – 75 degrees Fahrenheit.

Amaryllis
Amaryllis flower plants are often found at Christmas and often used as room decorations, both as cut flowers and ornamental plants. Amaryllis flowers have unique shape resembling a bell with red color that adds warmth to the room. Since it is a tropical plant, it requires warm humidity. It’s best to avoid placing the amaryllis in direct sunlight as this can inhibit the blooms and make the colors fade.

Christmas Cactus
This plant is a tropical plant that comes from the tropical rainforests of Brazil. The uniqueness of this cactus is its stems remain green all year round, but just before Christmas the cactus will start to produce red, orange or purple flowers. This plant grows well in moist soil and lots of indirect sunlight. If you want your cactus to flower at Christmas, be sure to put it in a dark place 6 to 8 weeks before Christmas Day.

Holly Plant
You are certainly no stranger to this plant, the holly plant has close related to the Christmas theme. Holly and berries have also been a part of Christmas since ancient times. The holly bush has spiky leaves with red berries and white flowers. This plant requires full sun and well-drained soil with moderately acidic content.

Mistletoe
The mistletoe plant symbolizes love and usually hung in homes during the Christmas season. However, this plant is a parasitic plant, so you need a host for the mistletoe tree to grow properly. Seeding can occur in the ground, but once roots are established, the plants need to placed in the bark of the host tree. It will take about four years for the mistletoe plants to mature, and the male plants will not produce white fruit.

Paperwhites Flowers
This plant is the lily plant family, which has bell-shaped flowers with a sweet aroma. The plant stems can grow to about a foot to one and a half feet tall with pure white star-shaped flowers. Beside the white flower, you can also find paperwhites flowers in yellow or orange colors.

Wintercherries
This plant has white flowers that bloom in summer, but closer to December in winter it will start to bright red and orange fruits that resemble tomatoes. The older and ripe, then the fruits more red. This plant likes bright sunlight, but be sure not to put it in direct sunlight. It is best to keep it out of pets and small children reach because this plant contains poison.

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