The Flower Hour #10: Festive Holiday Florals and Decor

For the Flower Hour, share your images of flowers, gardens, fields of flowers, seasonal leaves, blossoms, berries, and wildflowers. Even bouquets and silk/faux flowers are welcome.

Rubywine holly in snow
Snowy Holly bush from 2021

Now that the holidays are here, feel free to share close-ups of Christmas tree pine boughs, wreaths, holly berries, etc.

This week, I’m linking with Lens-Artists’: Holidays, in which I will share some festive plant-based holiday decor. Feel free to interpret the Flower Hour any way you would like with your own subtheme!

Local Holiday Fun

“It’s supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly… and other things ending in olly.” – Terry Pratchett

Christmas Tree Lighting 2021
Christmas Tree Lighting 2021
Christmas tree
Tree and Warmth inside the Wine Bar!

No Snow Needed to be Festive

Even in tropical locations, people find ways to be festive. When I visited Hawaii’s Big Island in 2019, I met up with Graham, and we visited the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden in Hilo.

crimson medinilla red flower
Crimson Medinilla flowers hang like a Christmas ornament

We often visit our families in San Diego during the Christmas holidays. A neighbor near my daughter’s home made the most of their native decor to show its festive spirit.

tiki statue
Tiki statue with a flowering bonus Bird of Paradise

Another neighbor wrapped lights around a flowering rosemary bush…double delight!

holiday lights

New to The Flower Hour photo challenge? Please check out my page for more information! I encourage “double-dipping” with other blog challenges if you do not want to create a separate post.

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93 responses to “The Flower Hour #10: Festive Holiday Florals and Decor”

  1. Gorgeous decorations. Happy holidays!!

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    1. Thank you, Debra! Wishing you well for the holidays!

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  2. Crimson medinilla, it’s so beautiful. I like how it hangs there. Have a merry Christmas, Terri.

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    1. Thank you, Hazel! I enjoyed the tropical flowers! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

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      1. Thank you, Terri. God bless!

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  3. […] Dedicating this lovely Chrysanthemums to Cee Neuner and sharing with Terri’s The Flower Hour […]

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  4. […] Dedicating this lovely Chrysanthemums to Cee Neuner and sharing with Terri’s The Flower Hour […]

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  5. As always, just so lovely 🙂

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    1. Beautiful sunny flowers! Crazy warm winter, it was 57 in Spokane! Enjoy the flowers while you can.

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  7. Very festive collection, Terri. I love your photo of the crimson medinilla flowers. Here’s my contribution: https://natalietheexplorer.home.blog/2025/12/12/fleurs-de-villes-noel-2025/ Happy holidays to you and yours!

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    1. Thank you, Natalie! I really enjoyed touring the Hilo botanical gardens with Graham a few years ago. Amazing flowers and plants.

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  11. Beautiful collections, Terri and timely.

    Love the Crimson Medinilla flowers!

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    1. Thank you, Mr Philo! Tropical flowers are always so unusual and beautiful to discover!

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  12. Wonderful Holiday fun photos Terri.

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  15. The snow on the Holly Bush is great to see. No snow here in AZ.
    Merry December my friend!

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    1. Merry December, Nancy! No snow here either right now! Hawaii sent us a huge atmospheric river this week. Caused flooding in Seattle, but not here. We’re praying for a white Christmas!

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  16. Great photos, Terri. Your brought plenty of joy with this post.

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    1. Thank you, Egidio! Hope your holidays are off to a great start!

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  17. Happy Holidays, Terri!

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  18. Wonderful photos! I especially like the light wrapped rosemary in CA 🙂 I love how creative people can be!

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    1. Thank you, Melissa! People get very creative for the holidays, and I certainly appreciate the efforts!

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  19. Lovely festive photos and, you’re right, the Crimson Medinilla does look like a Christmas orchid. Only been over to the gardens once this year, but it still looks good and I like the changes they’ve made after some storm damage a couple of years back. Here’s my flower today: https://grahamsisland.com/2025/12/10/red-anthurium-2/

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    1. Thank you, Graham. It was a fun outing with you that time! It’s nice that so many cities have a botanical garden to visit.

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      1. I’m glad you mentioned that. I’m going to Honolulu next week and there’s a garden downtown that I wouldn’t mind visiting.

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      2. Sounds fun, take lots of pics! And quit sending those pineapple expresses our way 🤣🤣

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      3. I’d keep the rain here if I could. We could use it.

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  20. […] A Red Anthurium at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here. […]

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  21. Terri, you gallery truly meets this week’s challenge. Such festive photos! I love Tiki Santa!

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    1. Thank you, John! I enjoy walking my daughter’s San Diego neighborhood. The tiki Santa caught my eye!

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  23. Very festive-looking Terri, especially the red flower from Hawaii. My mother liked Anthurium, so I always got her some for her birthday (Valentine’s Day as they look like hearts) and sometimes for Christmas if they’d order them as they were busy with arrangements, grave blankets and would forget sometimes. I am sending my post you read the other day for “Peace” where I’m double-dipping to use it for Flower Hour.

    When there’s wicked wind, wildflowers and …

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    1. Thank you, Linda! Glad you could double dip both challenges!

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      1. You’re welcome Terri – glad I could double-dip! I hope your weather is okay … I am hearing news stories of the atmospheric river in your state and statewide evacuations. I hope you are not in the line of any of these flooding issues.

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      2. No, our side of the state stays drier. Seattle is crazy with flooding now. It was 59 F here today. Too warm. Ick.

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      3. Whew for that! I had heard state-wide, so I wondered. It sounds crazy from the flooding already. That is warm for you. The weather extremes are amazing to me … we will be very bitter cold this weekend, Saturday in negative territory, but Sunday a “real feel” of -20 (not a typo, yes minus 20). I’ll dash out and run the car and dash back in both days … my poor Park pals will suffer once again as I’ve only made it there twice the last two weeks due to snow/ice and we had three back-to-back Polar Vortex events hit us. This will be the worst.

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      4. This flooding is so bad for our whole state. There are road blocks in the mountain passes. Our 9 Mile Falls was running today to accommodate the snow melt in our mountains. There is snow in the forecast next week. I hope you stay warm, Linda!

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      5. I hope it gets better soon Terri. A fellow blogger in San Jose experienced the same type of atmospheric river flooding a few years ago. Her husband’s car hydroplaned and crashed on the expressway coming home from work. He was fine, the car was totaled. Well enjoy that snow as you said you were looking forward to it – we will be in the 40s on Thursday with rain – just crazy after this brutally cold weekend we will be having. Thankfully I made it to the Park today, a treacherous path there, so I walked on the snowy grass.

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  24. I’m working on “other words ending in -olly”!

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  26. And the happiest of holidays to you too Terri!! How great to be with family over the holidays.

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    1. Thank you, Tina! We’re excited to stay home and host the grandkids this year! 🎄

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  27. So fun to see all the festive decorations, trees, flowers, and lights at this time of year. Here is my entry:

    https://wp.me/p3RE1e-njH

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    1. Thank you, Barbara! It really is a special time of year! 🎄

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  29. Those mednillas are extraordinary. I’ve never seen them before.

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    1. Thank you, I believe they grow only in Hawaii and in tropical areas.

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  30. Happy holidays, Terri! Wherever you celebrate it’s all about family and close friends. We have a hectic 4 days in the UK and I’m quite happy to be without snow. It complicates travel xx

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    1. Thank you, Jo! You are absolutely right! Enjoy the hectic fun of the holidays!

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  31. Lovely holiday decorations, Terri. Have a wonderful Christmas.

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    1. Thank you, Colleen! I’m finishing decorating my huge Christmas tree today 🤞, and a wonderful Christmas to you!

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  32. Terri, I like both the snowy and tropical images of Christmas decorations. I enjoy seeing the creative ways people in warm climates decorate for Christmas. I love the tiki statue with the Santa hat.

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    1. Thank you, Beth! I got a big laugh at the tiki statue. And plumeria plants grow in that same neighborhood of San Diego.

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  33. Beautiful seasonal images, Terri 🎄

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    1. Thank you, Cathy. It was fun to look back to some of our warm, winter travels!

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  34. Happy Holidays to you and your family Terri!

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    1. Thank you, Anne! Hope you are feeling better!

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      1. I’m slowly getting better. I know I can’t rush it.

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  35. Delightful photographs, Terri

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  36. These are wonderful! I can’t wait to join in. Mine posts on Friday.

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    1. Thank you, Dawn, I’m looking forward to your post!

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  37. Thank you, Terri, for your beautiful photos. You made the snow on the holly bush look fantastic. I love the theme of holiday cheer in various climates and zones. A great idea!

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    1. Thank you, Suzette! I dug into some archives from 2016 from our trips south.

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  38. Your Flower Hour post is such a warm, festive delight. You weave together nature, seasonality, and personal moments with an inviting gentleness that makes readers feel like they’re walking beside you—through snowy hollies, glowing tree lightings, and even tropical blooms in Hawaii.

    The way you open the door for all kinds of “flowers,” from winter berries to faux arrangements, gives the theme a wonderfully inclusive spirit. And your mix of photos, memories, and quotes adds both charm and personality.

    It’s a joyful celebration of the season, nature, and community—beautifully shared.

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  39. It is true that the season looks rather different in tropical places, in my view it seems out of place. But I come from the Santas homeland 😁But it is great that all can celebrate as they please.

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    1. I have to agree, Ritva! When I lived in Portland, Oregon for 2 yrs as a kid, I loved our snowy Christmases. 6 years ago we decided to move to Spokane, Washington, home to white Christmases, northern lights and moose! I love that you live in Santas homeland. I love winter!

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  40. Happy holidays Terri

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    1. Thank you, Sadje, Happy December and Holidays!

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      1. Thanks 🙏🏼

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