How to Turn Christmas Porch Pots into Winter Porch Pots

The Christmas porch pot is the chameleon of outdoor holiday decorations. Once Christmas is over, you can smoothly transition it to a winter porch pot that fits right in for the rest of the season without looking like you forgot to take it down in January. Removing the unmistakable Christmas decorations from the porch pot is obviously the first step, but what else can you do? Here are some of the possibilities:

Winter Porch Pot Ideas

What other winter themes could you celebrate besides Christmas? Perhaps you could create a colour palette centred around wintry white, for example, and add white snowflake decorations or dried white hydrangeas.
For a new winter theme that embraces local plant life, take a walk through your favourite winter countryside and forage for new additions for your pot. Finds could include wild grasses, branches from bushes, winterberries, or even cattails.
If you’re ready to start thinking about that magical season that happens after winter, replace the conifer evergreens with plant cuttings that turn our minds to spring. Green leaves are a good choice if you can get your hands on any this time of year—magnolia leaves work particularly well—along with dried flowers and branches from deciduous trees like birch.

Christmas isn’t the only winter holiday. What other winter holiday could you showcase with your porch pot? Many readily-available decorations can help you create a Valentine’s Day theme, or maybe there’s a lesser-known theme from your personal cultural heritage that you could represent in your winter porch pot.
Just as Christmas tree decor has become more adventurous in recent years, you could be similarly adventurous with your winter porch pot—especially once Christmas is over. Feature items that celebrate your hobbies and personality, like a decorative birdhouse or fairy figurines.

Do You Water Winter Porch Pots?

Ideally, winter porch pots receive water at the design stage to help ensure the greenery stays fresh as long as possible. One best practice is to soak evergreen cuttings in cool, clean water for a day before adding them to a porch pot. When the pot has soil as the potting medium, another best practice is to water the soil generously before inserting cuttings and decorations. The wet soil makes it easier to position everything securely, and when you put the pot outside, the winter air will freeze your cuttings and decorations into place.

Some people also take a third preservative measure: they use an anti-desiccant spray to coat needles and leaves with a waxy substance that seals in the moisture and keeps them looking nice and fresh.

If your winter porch pot missed some of these steps or is looking a bit parched, spray it with water or mist it regularly. This tip may come in handy if the temperature rises above zero and the pot in a place that gets a lot of sun that might be drying it out.

Another simple solution for dealing with dried-out cuttings is to remove any that seem too far gone to revive. Fill holes by adding new decorations or repositioning other items.

You can also repeat the soil watering step when you’re transitioning your winter porch pot to its non-Christmas theme. Bring the pot inside, let it warm up a bit, soak the soil with fresh cool water, gently remove the Christmas elements, and add your new decorations. You could also use an anti-desiccant spray at this point as well.

Freshen Your Winter Porch Pot With Items From Us

If there’s one common mistake people make with porch pots, it’s that they underestimate how many decorative elements they need to create a full, luscious-looking pot. If you remove your Christmas decorations from your winter porch pot and realize you don’t have enough items to fill the holes, ask us for help! We design porch pots, planters, and container gardens every year and have a huge selection of decorations and plants in-store—not to mention creative suggestions and expert advice.

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