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Home » All Recipes & Inspiration » How to Decorate a Christmas Tree with Artificial Flowers

How to Decorate a Christmas Tree with Artificial Flowers

Published: Dec 1, 2021 by Genevieve Morrison · This post may contain affiliate links

Want to create the look of beautiful fresh flowers on your Christmas tree, without the fresh flowers? Creating a stunning Christmas tree with artificial flowers is easy when you have quality faux blooms, a little string, and an afternoon for drinking Christmas cocktails and decorating the tree! 

A Christmas tree decorated with lights, fake flowers, orange slices and glass snow flakes.

I’ve always decorated my Christmas tree with real, dried flowers, and have even poo-pooed the idea of decorating with (dare I say) fake flowers, but I discovered an Etsy store called Flower Squared that sells gorgeous artificial flowers! They look so real, I squealed when they arrived!

Until this Christmas, I would always get my flowers from a big flower bodega right down the street. I’ve since moved a little too far from that pretty bodega, and what you can’t carry in Brooklyn, you can’t have, unless you have it delivered to your door. 

A Christmas tree beside a window and a mantle with stockings and candles, lit with lights.

Having 20 bouquets of fresh roses and a dozen bunches of hydrangea is a bit out of my price range. So I went artificial this year but made sure to spend some time making pretty dried citrus ornaments for some organic touches. I also added some dry gomphrena (poof ball flowers) to add a little more “realness.”

I also have a little more space to actually store Christmas decorations (what a concept!) I’ve never had that before, so I decided to treat myself to these beauties. A soon as they arrived, I grabbed a tree, poured myself a delicious RumChata Christmas cocktail, and got started!

Artificial peonies and roses in a Christmas tree..
Hydrangea and roses in a Christmas tree with snow flake ornaments.
A bunch of roses in a Christmas tree with lights and a citrus ornament.

The Etsy store has so many beautiful flowers to choose from, it was really tricky to decide which to choose. But I decided to go with 8 bunches of pink roses, 5 bunches of yellow roses, 15 blue hydrangeas, and 10 big peonies!

a collage of 4 images showing peonies, hydrangeas, pink roses and yellow roses.

To add them to my tree, I simply made mini bouquets with 3-5 mixed flowers and tied them together. I also used wire cutters to trim the stems shorter because they come quite long. Once they were trimmed and tied, I simply slid them into the boughs of the tree.

The stems of artificial hydrangeas tied with string.

I also wanted to bring the color up to my new mantle (I made it myself! If you want to see how, take a look at my DIY wall mantle post!) I used a few beautiful bunches and made a precious bouquet in a milk glass water pitcher. They really look so real and elegant. Especially after I added a little dry eucalyptus. 

2 images. A vase of artificial flowers on a mantle and a closeup of the flowers.

If you create your own flower tree, you have to show me! Always tag me on Instagram, or simply email me your pretty photos! Have fun creating and Merry Christmas everybody!

A hand positioning a bouquet of flowers in a Christmas tree.

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  1. aNa

    December 01, 2022 at 2:38 pm

    So lovely! Is your fireplace inoperable? I love fireplaces. Every house on my block has a fireplace, one of them has 2. I am the only house that doesn’t have one. The neighborhood was custom homes and the man who bought my home (we’re the 2d owners) never wanted to pay the extra money to put one in. When we bought the home it was 40 years old and still had the original kitchen in it, appliances and all. The only addition he made was a rolling dishwasher. Sufficed to say he was careful with his money.

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    • Genevieve Morrison

      December 01, 2022 at 4:27 pm

      Aww, thank you! I also LOVE fireplaces…so much, that I made one myself! I simply bought a fireplace mantle and glued anaglypta to a board behind it. It’s a wallpaper that looks like embossed tin. If you want to add one to your home, it was so easy! It literally hangs on the wall like a picture frame. Here’s how I did it! https://www.shekeepsalovelyhome.com/diy-mantle/

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  2. Bobbi Jo

    December 01, 2021 at 12:39 pm

    Absolutely beautiful! Very creative and elegant. Love the color combination and the dried fruit along with the crystal snowflakes compliment the whole look.

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    • Genevieve Morrison

      December 01, 2021 at 2:34 pm

      Aww, thank you!

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