1.   And you thought the dangling bulbs just looked pretty.

2.   Its dark green leaves look like spinach, its bulbs look like green onions.

3.   John Fuu Liu, an inventor in Huntington Beach, Calif., has patented Christmas-tree lights whose bulbs look like miniature firework displays.

4.   Naturalized bulbs such as daffodils look great growing in ivy or periwinkle under shade trees.