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Do you decorate for the holidays? What's your traditions?
For me, it used to be a fake Christmas tree, small enough to fit my coffee table.
This year I decided not to decorate it. Instead, I used a glass bowl with christmass lights inside for Yule decoration. The reason was, I was not it the mood.
Now:
This year (again) I wrote in my gardening column that I absolutely object to the usage of real christmas trees in Greece.
For those of you that come from scarcely populated areas with vast forests, I cannot speak.
But for Greeks, who've suffered the most terrible forest fires and are now witnessing extinction of trees in the greek habitat....I find it despicable, that they would cut so many trees for commercial reasons.
Christmas should not come with such a high cost for Nature.
So I suggested that if one wants to decorate a real tree, no matter what, they should adopt the tree, i.e. buy a potted tree and keep it for many years.
Moreover, I suggested that Greeks finally learn that there are other plants traditionally associated with Christmas (a fact that's totally unknown here as urban city Greeks are notoriously ignorant to everything related to plants), that they can use as holiday decoratives instead.
Naming just a few:
Christmas cacti
Kalanchoe
Poinsettia:
Mistletoe:
Star of Bethlehem
Roses, even!
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