Ingredients for outdoor evergreen winter containers:
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- Spruce tops, small or medium size
- White pine tips
- Noble fir tips
- Blueberry juniper
- Incense Cedar
- Winterberry
- Redtwig dogwood
Other tools needed:
- Top soil, placed in container and watered
- Polyurethane container 12" diameter (best size to insert into urns)
- Pruning shears
- Wire cutters
- Wilt-Pruf
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Step by step directions:
- Select a spruce top that is twice the height of your container and insert into the middle of the container.
- This is your "foundation", the basic form of your arrangement.
- Select 5 white pine cuttings to insert through out the spruce top foliage for texture and color variation.
- Add 3-5 Noble fir tips
- Place 3-5 Incense cedar tips throughout the arrangement to accent with the yellow color; one in the middle of the arrangement, 1-2 cascading over the edge of the pot, and 1 echoing the central spruce top.
- Do the same with the Blueberry juniper.
- Use 5 redtwig dogwood as color extensions, placed throughout the arrangement
- Place 3 winterberry stems for the final accent, use as you would use lipstick - the focal point, to draw the eye into the most interesting part of the arrangement.
- Spray the entire arrangement with Wilt-Pruf, place outside to enjoy until March.
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