Giving outdoor walls a festive look for the holidays is just as easy as gathering greens from your own garden. Here we show a striking arrangement made with prunings from golden juniper, deodar cedar, and cotoneaster.

To hold the display, we used a flat-backed terra-cotta wall planter (8 inches deep and 16 inches wide) that cost about $25. The planter is securely mounted to a stucco wall with masonry screws. The greens are simply tucked in the empty planter. For a strong vertical punch, we placed several 18- to 24-inch-long stems of gold-tipped juniper in the upright position at the rear. As a horizontal accent, we added a few 14- to 18-inch-long boughs of deodar cedar. We finished off with sprigs of berry-laden cotoneaster.

Even without water, the prunings lasted well over a week.