Green Ornaments

The Best Green Christmas Ornaments

Green ornaments look great on Christmas trees, and not only when accompanied by red decorations, but with other colors as well!

Although green bulb ornaments are a classic choice, there are plenty of other options for green ornaments. From pickles to The Grinch, green ornaments come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

What Colors Go with Green Ornaments?

While red and green are classic holiday colors and go splendidly together to signify Christmas, green also looks great when accompanied by neutral colors like brown and grey, or by white accents or even a turquoise shade.

While there are certainly "rules" about which colors go well together, the only rule you should go by is this: Your tree, your rules. You can couple your green ornaments with whatever colors make you happy, even if they don't classically go well together.

Green as a Christmas Color

Green has long been a traditional Christmas color alongside the color red. Ornaments in emerald green, dark green, sage green and all shades of green are common sights during the holiday season.

But why is green a color so closely associated with Christmas? There is more than one theory to explain it:

1. Like the green of an Evergreen tree, Christ's love is never-ending. This religious take on green as a Christmas color is widely-accepted.
2. Holly plants were a traditional Winter Solstice plant for the Ancient Celtics. The red and green of the holly plant became the colors signifying the winter holidays.
3. Green symbolizes holly leaves, which represent the crown of thorns worn on Jesus' head as He was on the cross. Another religious take on the color, this theory considers the holly plant an important symbol of Christ's suffering as opposed to a plant loved by Ancient Celts.
4. Artist Haddon Sunblom used both red and green in his portraits of Santa in the 1930s. So while red and green were nothing new to the holidays, these wildly popular illustrations helped the public associate these colors with Santa, and therefore, with the holidays.

So whether you're putting green Christmas tree decorations up because you find them rich in tradition or spiritual significance, or you really just like the color green, you can be sure that everyone who sees your green ornaments will consider them on-trend with the holiday season.