These Lovely and Low-Maintenance Christmas Plants Make the Best Gifts

As magnificent as your Christmas tree is, there's no need to limit your holiday botanicals to just the evergreen variety! Getting a Christmas plant (or two, or three ...) as seasonal decor or as a green-thumb-friendly gift will add color, beauty, and a much-needed burst of energy to your space — just as most of the outdoor flora is heading into winter dormancy.

These Christmas plants symbolize the Yuletide season, coloring the home in elegant shades of red, green, and white. Whether displayed as dinnertime centerpieces atop a Christmas table runner or as leafy decor bedecking the crackling hearth, we appreciate their easy vivaciousness. Best of all? While some are long-lasting, many of these Christmas plants also happen to be very low-maintenance — some have a brief, blooming lifespan of just a few weeks or months. So if you're a first-time plant parent, there's no need to stress!

Have fun shopping for these holly-jolly Christmas plants for your home or for a loved one this holiday season.