This red and green Larch Pine Floral Pick is approximately 16 inches long and 7 inches wide. These Larch Pine Floral Picks have several different sized pine cones decorating the stem. Also on the stem of these Larch Pine Floral Picks are green Larch Pine leaves, red, shiny, plastic berries, and a spiraled grapevine. These Christmas Floral Arrangements Picks are excellent for decorating your Artificial Christmas Trees, Wreaths, and Garlands.
How to shape your Decorative Larch Pine Floral Picks: Shaping these Larch Pine Floral Picks differs from the shaping of your Artificial Trees and other Floral Picks in that the berries, leaves and pine cones on these particular Floral Picks are not meant to be shaped all that much. If the Floral Pick looks good as it is when you remove it from the box, then it is best to leave it alone, so you do not accidentally break any parts of this Floral Pick. The Larch Pine stems can be, however, mildly shaped if the bend in their stems looks unreal. When bending these stems be very careful and only make minor changes in the original shape; you do not want to ruin them. Shaping the berries of these Larch Pine Floral Picks is very much the same; only minor changes ought to be attempted and great care should be given to ensure you do not break any of them off of their stems. The grapevines on these Floral Picks are too fragile to be molded, as are the pine cones. It is best to leave these items as they are.
How to use decorative Floral Picks in a Christmas tree: Adding decorative Floral Picks and garlands to a Christmas tree truly enhances the look and character of the tree. For some real woody trees decorative Floral Picks and garlands can be the only decorations added to the tree. The very first thing you do is completely shape your tree. Select this link for more information from our Artificial Christmas Tree Shaping Guide. Add any lights that you might want to use on your tree. Select this link to view our Christmas tree lights and outdoor Christmas decorations. Next you would add decorative garland. Select this link to view our decorated country holiday garland. You don’t want to cover the entire tree with garland you just want to add some dimension and highlight. For a 7.5 ft tree you would add about 3 strands, depending on the width of the tree. Select this link to view our Christmas trees artificial. At this point you add decorative Floral Picks and other large, 4 inch diameter or larger ornaments. Select this link to view our unique Christmas ornaments. You will need about 7 of each item for a 7.5 ft tree and 9 for a 9ft tree and so on, it looks better if you use an odd number of decorative Floral Picks or ornaments. What you do is stand about 10 ft away from your tree and squint your eyes as you look at your tree. You will see all the large holes, or areas where large decorations will fit. You want to use decorative Floral Picks and sprays and other large ornaments to fill any spots where you can see all the way into the tree trunk. Put the decorative Floral Picks, sprays and ornaments into the hole or spot that needs to be filled. Some of them will go deeper into the tree than others. This gives dimension to the tree. Don’t put two of the same object next to each other, stagger them around the tree. Add the decorative Floral Picks and sprays first, then add one style of large ornaments at a time. You are not trying to completely cover the tree; you are filling in gaps or spots that need highlighting. Later after you have added all of your other smaller ornaments you can add tinsel trim, such as our, gold silver or white, glitter rain. These are decorative Floral Picks that go into the tree at the very end. They have long glitter streamers that hang down like rain around the outside edge of the tree. You can add as many or as few as you like to highlight your Christmas tree.