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These timeless, aromatic botanical bunches look beautiful adorning a door or hanging over your stove. Representing strength and protection, cedar and eucalyptus are among my favorite botanicals to use for handmade wreathes, swag, and garland.

Once you learn how to preserve cedar branches, you’ll be able to create stunning accent pieces and festive holiday decorations.

White cedar, known most commonly as arborvitae, is most easily propagated via root stem cuttings. Take cuttings when the tree is dormant, dip them in rooting hormone and plant in a soilless planting mix. Transplant them into the landscape in late fall.

Cedar branches are flat, lustrous, and soft, and very fragrant. Cedar wood is used to make closets and trunks that keep insects and moths out of clothing.

A sugi-dama is a bunch of cedar boughs that have been tied together and clipped into a nice, round ball. It is hung outside of the sake brewery once the sake is ready. Think of it as an “ope…

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Most people go to the cottage to relax. To sip coffee in the morning and lay in the sun. Maybe read a book and roast a wiener or two. I go to the cottage to