This tip starts with a walk around your property, neighborhood or a friends woods.  Gather things that will add interest to a spruce tip pot for your front steps or window box.  Things like dogwood (red sticks), white pine branches, dried hydrangea flowers, pinecones, birch branches and milk weed pods all look great.  You can even spray paint some dried flowers red to add color.

It’s hard to find spruce tips that are even, so I suggest buying a $20 bundle from your local hardware or grocery store.  Start your pot with the tallest spruce tips in the center and the shorter ones around the edges.

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Add in birch branches, dogwood and twinkle lights if you’ll be using them.

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Now fill in around the base with white pine branches or other evergreen boughs.  A few in between the spruce tips will also make it more full.

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Now add in all the little goodies.  Place items at varying heights and   in groups of odd numbers to have the best visual interest.

If the weather stays below freezing, there should be no need to water your pot or window box.  The beauty will last well into the new year!