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jacqui_ontario (Zone 5b) Nov 07, 2006

Hi,
I lost the top 2/3 of a white pine in last week's wind storm and have kept the boughs, some as long as 9 ft, in a plastic pail of water. How long into the winter will the needles stay green? I realized the water will freeze and probably crack the plastic container, but thought having a water source would provide continued greenery in a large outdoor decoration. I'm in zone 5.
Thanks Jacqui

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PrairieGirlZ5 Thornton, IL Nov 07, 2006

I think they'll stay green all winter. Last year, I made a nest of pine boughs in my bird bath, and put a round topiary form wired with white lights, on top of it, for an all winter display.

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jacqui_ontario (Zone 5b) Nov 07, 2006

Thanks Prairie Girl....I want to place this huge "arrangement" in a spot where I severly pruned an Euonymus wintercreeper because it has scale, and am missing green in its spot. Of course, I'm also missing the top of the white pine tree!!!

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PrairieGirlZ5 Thornton, IL Nov 07, 2006

That happened to a lot of spruce and pines around here a couple of years ago. Lots of damage, blamed on "microbursts," which until then, I had never even heard of before. It's a severe weather pattern of damaging winds that accompany thunderstorms. We were fortunate it spared out spruce, but it sheared the top off my neighbor's pine, and felled a lot of trees. I just took a peek outside, it seems to have three leaders now, but otherwise is fine.

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