Replacing Christmas Greenery

We’re bang in the middle of Twixmas; that crazy time of year when you don’t know what day it is… the turkey is eaten and you’re snuggling on the sofa munching through the last of the Christmas choccies. If are you itching to replace the Christmas Greenery and return your house to a sense of calm, or do you like to keep those decorations up until January to keep that festive vibe alive?

Whichever camp you are in, once you’ve finally packed away those decorations, your house may feel a little bare. Perhaps you have an empty space where just last week you were admiring your beautiful Christmas tree and festive treasures. If so, then its time to think about replacing Christmas Greenery with some new indoor plant options.

Well, fear not, plant lovers! Once you’ve waved goodbye to your Christmas trees and other festive foliage for another year, the absence of a large evergreen in our homes doesn’t have to mean the absence of all indoor greenery!

In fact, in the depths of winter, when we spend lots of time indoors, hibernating from the cold, it’s a really good idea to bring the outdoors in and create ourselves a little (or large!) indoor jungle.

Keep reading for team TLB’s best indoor plant recommendations to replace your Christmas greenery this year. You’ll have your winter home feeling like a tropical jungle in no time with these interior green inspo ideas.

Go Green to Beat the Post-Christmas Blues

Bring the outside in over the winter months to reap the benefits of nature! It is absolutely the way to go to beat those post-Christmas blues. Not only does indoor greenery look fab at any time of the year but these wondrous houseplants bring with them a whole host of benefits too. With their proven air-purifying qualities and ability to reduce stress and induce calm, your green companions really can have a super positive effect on your health and wellbeing.

What fab news that these green beauties not only look good but do good too.

As if we needed any more of an excuse to accessorise with green!

Different tree – same statement style!

If having a statement tree as part of your indoor green style has really grown on you over the festive period, why not keep that trend going through the winter and beyond. We have some fab options in our big plant range for filling that empty space.

Check out our XL Ficus Elastica, standing up to a metre in height, this beautiful botanical, with his large, glossy green leaves makes a perfect choice to replace your Christmas tree and keep your home green throughout the winter. Styled in either our cotton and seagrass belly basket or our bespoke grey ceramic, this guy is oh-so stylish as well as gorgeous. However, do avoid this big beauty if you have asthma or a latex allergy, he is also known as a Rubber Plant because he excretes a latex sap. If you think this fabulous statement plant could be the one for you, find out a bit more about him with our helpful blog post all about it.

Another of our favourite big houseplant options to brighten up a dull and empty space is the XL Strelitzia Bird of Paradise. Measuring up to 1.2 metres tall, this fabulous, exotic beauty can’t fail to bring all the stylish statement vibes to your winter home décor. With his large, paddle-shaped leaves and styled in your choice of our seagrass and cotton belly basket or our bespoke grey stoneware, he will make an oh-so stunning statement in your home. Have a read of our blog to find out more about the beautiful Bird of Paradise.

Small Plants, Big Style

Another wonderful thing about our houseplants is that they come in all shapes and sizes so your green style statement can be as big or as small as you like. For those of you wanting to breathe some life onto an empty shelf or bare sideboard, we have some fab choices to help you create a small plant jungle in your interior. These small but mighty shelfie bundles allow you to include some green in your home in a more subtly stylish way, ideal for those of us with a bit less space.

Our Plant Shelfie Bundle is an oh-so-cute collection of five mini succulents and cacti potted in our signature black and gold and grey and copper ceramics. Pop this chic selection on a shelf, sideboard or windowsill to instantly elevate your green style.

Alternatively, take a look at our Pretty Pink Plant Gang, an elegant selection of four mini succulents and plants styled in our bespoke pink and copper ceramics. The gorgeous soft pink of these pots will bring a fresh, feminine vibe to your home.

Alternatively, take a look at our Pretty Pink Plant Gang, an elegant selection of four mini succulents and plants styled in our bespoke pink and copper ceramics. The gorgeous soft pink of these pots will bring a fresh, feminine vibe to your home.

Easy Care and Low Light Loving Plants

For anyone looking to get started with an indoor jungle during the winter, easy care and low light loving plants are a great place to start. Easy care because who doesn’t love an easy care green beauty? And after the hectic nature of Christmas, we highly recommend choosing low maintenance houseplants to get you started and help keep stress levels low as we start the new year.

One of our favourite low-maintenance beauties is the ever-popular Monstera Deliciosa. Commonly referred to as the Cheese Plant thanks to the trademark holes in his leaves that resemble Swiss cheese, this statement plant simply oozes botanical style. Have a read of our blog to find out all you need to know about the Monstera Deliciosa.

As we are all no doubt aware, we don’t get an awful lot of daylight at this time of year. As a general rule, indoor plants need plenty of light to thrive, but there are some varieties that tolerate much lower light levels. And so, it makes sense to choose some of these for winter home décor. Here are a couple of our favourites, that will thrive in your home even during these darker months.

The Chamaedorea is a beautiful, leafy botanical that will bring a timeless elegance to your home. And with a tolerance of lower light levels being one of his characteristics, he’s a fab choice for this time of year.

For a touch of structural style, take a look at the Yucca. Native to the Americas, with this green beauty your home will feel like a tropical paradise, no matter what the weather is doing outside.

If you choose to include one of these low-light-loving beauties in your indoor jungles, check out our fab guide to caring for your palms.

Hopefully, we’ve given you plenty of inspiration this week for keeping your home gorgeously green into the new year and beyond. With all these wondrous indoor plant options you’ll be stepping into 2023 reaping the wondrous health and wellbeing benefits of these green beauties.

As ever, if you have any questions about the plants featured in this blog or any of our other plants, do get in touch at [email protected].

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the New Year festivities and here’s to oodles of happiness, health and houseplants in 2023!