Make a festive paperwhite arrangement at home

Holiday decorating. We tend to focus on what's inside of our homes, but don't forget about what's on the front porch and you don't need a lot of space to make a big impression. Raina Sartain from Pike Nurseries shows us how to create a festive holiday planter using colorful winter plants. Good morning, I'm Rena at Pike's and I'm going to show you the hottest thing on the internet right now. This is what everybody wants to learn how to do and save money while they're doing it. So you can go out and buy paper whites in an arrangement that's already pre-made if you want to, but it'll cost a lot of money when you can stay at home and do this yourself and it's a lot more fun to do it. So what we're going to do is this is a paper white bulb right here. Thank you. And these paper whites have little roots on the bottom. And that's how they start to grow when you put them in water. So you're always going to put the little pointy part up and have the roots in the water. We're going to start here just to show you. Now, they don't really like to grow in dirt. They get too moist. So you're going to position them pretty tightly. You can do a glass container, any kind of container actually. You can watch the growth of the roots through a clear glass, but you can use anything. And then you're going to add water, and the water is really going to come up just to the height of the rock. So that the roots are kind of in the water but you do not want to submerge the bulb itself in water because it'll rot. So let's look at it in this beautiful bowl that I've used and we're going to do them fairly tightly. They're going to just explode into a beautiful arrangement. It takes about four to six weeks for this to happen. Now you can do them in So that you can have paper whites all year. You might have one of these waiting in the wings. Don't add water because they will not start to really grow until you put water in there. Now, another key, this is very important. These little boogers like vodka or gin, and they even like whiskey. So when they are about two to three inches high, you can do a solution. Thank you. And then you put a solution of about seven parts of water to one part of vodka. your pick, like you know, vodka, whiskey, anything and put that in there and that is going to kind of stagnate their growth so they're going to get about this high instead of this high and flop over as they get top-heavy. Now once you have these in here and you've got your water in there you can embellish it with some moss For other, you know, more colorful rocks, you can use colored stones, whatever you want to do. And then, you know, if you want to make it a little more Christmassy, you might put a little glittery bird in there, something like that, or even some fake berries. And then, now we're going, if I can lift this up, these rocks are really heavy, and put them in there. And then, in about four weeks... You are going to start to see the most beautiful arrangement ever. So come on in, get yourself some bulbs, let's get going, and you're going to have perfect timing for the Christmas holidays. Have a great day.