Since saxon times people have decorated their homes with greenery at christmas it was partly to do with left over beliefs from the pagan past but also because evergreens and red holly berries were the only splashes of colour in a monochrome landscape today of course we have tinsel and crepe paper in a whole rainbow display yet theres something wonderfully evocative about decking the halls with boughs of holly or fir or pine which is why this berry and pine wreath is so popular perhaps