During Christmas time, there is always a tree buying frenzy and once the twelve days of Christmas have gone, most people just discard their trees. A friend of a friend of mine (honest!) bought one such tree for Christmas and decided to palm it off on my friend saying that she was going home to Holland for the holidays and didn't want to waste the tree sitting by itself in an empty house. So my friend took it off her friend, after Christmas my friend found out that she was moving away to Norway so it was to the tip or a new home. To cut a long story short, I decided to rescue this poor pine tree and give it a permanent home. For a while, sitting in my garden it continued to act like the ornamental tree it was sold for i.e. it didn't grow and neither did it wilt...just like a plastic tree! Then suddenly after all these months since December, it woke and started to act like a proper real tree...haha...if you look at the picture, the lighter green parts are new growth. So little pine tree may you live long and prosper!!
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| New growth-light green |
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| When it first arrived in the snowy weather |
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