TRUMBULL -- Carol Konopka sits before a table of cut greens -- snippets of cedar, evergreen, pine, anything that has been donated to the Nichols Garden Club. She carefully inspects each one and snips ...

Despite the fact that you and I both know there are still serious gardening chores to accomplish before the end of the year, the truth is that our thoughts are turning to the holidays and decorating.

“It’s a simple decoration,” he says. “You can make them out of anything.” By Black Friday, the wooden market stand owned by the Waltons down the road from the schoolhouse is filled with holiday greens ...

Sherry Park has made a lot of decorative wreaths. The president of the Springfield Civic Garden Club, she said there is no “right” way to make a wreath — a decorated ring of evergreen branches or ...

This time of year, traditional evergreen wreaths with red ribbons are sold at every bodega, corner store, and gardening center—really anyplace with a cash register. And for good reason. They’re ...

I love gorgeous garland. I adore shimmering, showy Christmas-tree ornaments. And I’ve never met a set of holiday dishes that hasn’t set my heart on fire. But if I had to pick the single-most-amazing ...