Last Christmas, we fore-went the traditional Christmas tree in favour of a Christmas Branch. If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you will know my love for a good branch in an interior. So a branch Christmas tree felt like a verrrryyy natural step!

This particular branch was rescued from our friends bonfire pile. I thought it had a lovely ‘spread’ and shape. We simply put it into a normal Christmas tree stand and tightened it up. We then covered it with a wicker tree basket.

Reasons I love our Christmas branch:

1. It has zero carbon footprint

2. It’s free

3. It doesn’t drop pine needles on the floor!

4. It’s easy and light to manoeuvre

5. It looks beautiful (to me, anyway!)

6. It’s easy to break down and use as firewood when we no longer need it.

To make sure I still have ‘that’ Christmas scent, I hang a big wreath with foraged evergreen pine and fir branches.

The kids have a charity shop fake tree in their bedroom which is covered in tinsel and baubles! We also hang their favoyrite small toys on the tree too (like Auden;’s cars)- it’s not always necessary to buy baubles.

I love both of our trees equally, for very different reasons.

My branch became famous last year when it was the focus of an Observer article! You can see the feature online here (still very surreal to see a double page spread of me and my branch 😳!) I’ve shared some photos from that feature below, by Rory Mulvey. 

The Images above are by Rory Mulvey for The Observer.

Some of the items in the shoot include:

• Moon tree topper, and moon phases decorations by Workshop Ltd.

• The ribbon is The Natural Dye Works.

• The orange and white round recycled paper baubles, and the woven baubles are from Toast.

• The slippers and white porcelain baubles are from Aerende.

• The fabric wrapping is from Folds

I also made some Floral Posy Christmas baubles too, I love them! I created tiny little bundle, trimmed the talks very short, and secured them with a small length of velvet ribbon from The Natural Dye Works.

Our low impact Christmas has again been featured again this year, in a Guardian article, over here, talking about tips for seasonal decorations that won’t kill the planet or break the bank but still keep all members of your household happy.

Would you ever go for a Christmas branch?