New Bethany Lowe Designs, Inc. Traditional Bottle Brush Trees Box S10

Bottle brush trees are the workhorse of Christmas tabletop decor, and this is the traditional version, packaged in a box so the whole lot stores together instead of scattering across three bins by February.

They are useful precisely because they are simple. Cluster them along a mantel, tuck them behind a nativity, line them down the center of a table, or use them as scenery inside a Christmas village so the houses have somewhere to sit. Bottle brush trees have been doing this job on American mantels for generations, which is why the vintage ones still turn up at estate sales. Bethany Lowe has built a reputation on holiday pieces that look collected rather than bought.

How do you decorate with bottle brush trees? Bottle brush trees are typically grouped in odd-numbered clusters at mixed heights along a mantel, shelf, or table runner rather than displayed singly. Smaller sizes are also used as scenery inside Christmas village displays, under cloches, and in centerpieces, where they read as landscape rather than as a standalone ornament.