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Welcome to episode three of our mini Christmas decorating and celebration series.

In this episode, we are talking about Christmas trees of both the traditional spruce variety, branches and how to decorate different

areas of the home with lovely sparkle and decorations.

So I think my very favourite Christmas tree that I ever did was with just aliums.

And I'd managed to collect loads and loads through the previous summer.

And I had some of the whoppers, which is Shibiri, or Spider, which can be about 60 centimetres across,

I guess. And then I had lots more of Christofi, which is a middle-sized one, which are about

25 centimetres across, I guess, 20 sometimes. And then really quite a few of the smaller ones.

And much as they're the least showy,

it's actually really nice to have those different sizes. So I was using Purple Sensation and Purple Rain. And with all of them, I dipped them into some silver paints and dried them on newspaper.

And I left them overnight. And then I had my Christmas tree and I just

stood back and I threw the alium heads at the tree and I'd already covered the whole tree

with lights but literally the only decorations were those alliums and because I had the different

size the whoppers the mediums and the smalls, it meant you kind

of had this real sense of three-dimensionality. And it looked like the most sort of wonderful

celebratory chandelier, and yet everything had come from my garden. And I loved it. It just

felt so sustainable and so good. I love that and I think I'm heading

in that direction this year, although I'll tell you, I'm going to add one other thing I think in

Christmas 22. But over to you, Arthur, what's your tree going to be? Well, I do love how you do your big

Christmas tree and it does look incredibly glamorous with all the aliums on. I've kind of had enough of spending an hour trying to get my Christmas tree to look level

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