Rather than get bogged down in the real tree/fake tree debate this year, I decided to take things in a different direction.

I grew a vine screen instead!







It has taken me the best part of 12 months to train, trim and weave this vine into its current shape.

The vine provides our small verandah with a thick ceiling of leaves.

Decorations start to go up:

Fairy lights at night:

A few more decorations:







Top of the spa needs a bit of tidying up, but I'll think of something to make it look nicer.

Does anyone else have some innovative Christmas decorations they'd like to share?

A Blue Peter badge is on it's way.

Geez, tough crowd!

There is no way I could sit under that. You see screening and lights, I see spiders by the million.

Looks lovely though - from a long long way away!

That's pretty cool, I'd have to have an actual Christmas tree as well though. Does that vine make nice grapes?

maybe could you put a blob of glue on their back and douse them in christmas coloured glitter.

they could be like mobile (****ing scary, eight eyed) baubles

We havent done our decs yet... Mumbles put up the tree, perhaps you'd like to come and supervise ours?

No spiders; never seen any in the grapevine, and we've been here two years already.

Unfortunately no grapes either; it's a glory vine. But we do have some proper grape-growing vines along the back fence, and they produce a few nice bunches every year.

Your thread kills my ipad

It's optimised for Asus Transformer Prime.

Looks great Vash . . . nice bit of screening for you and the missus in the hot-tub . . . but tell me can your neighbours hear you through the grapevine?