In My Painted Garden: Searching For The Cones Of The White Pine

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Searching For The Cones Of The White Pine

We like to use a certain kind of pine cone for the roofs on our gourd birdhouses and here where we live in middle Tennessee it is hard to find the pine cones we like.Our son said that when he took our dog Kaiden to the vets office ( he lives in the country here) anyway he was walking him around by the tree line and came across some pine cones and told us about them. So we finally made it there last weekend , it was a BEAUTIFUL weekend so we parked attheVet"s office, it was a Sunday ant the office was closed. Yes we asked them ahead of time if it would be alright to come pick pine cones. When we got out of the car all we saw were lots of pine cones , " JACKPOT" or so we thought so !!

No these were the wrong kind of pine cones,,,,, These pine cones were very tightly formed together and the tips on them were so VERY pointed and sharp NOT the kind we use but a good start to our hunt!

At the Vet's office wrong trees and cones

At the VA Hospital White Pine Trees

Then we remembered that when my dad was in the VA hospital here which is only about 20 -25 mins away but still in Murfreesboro. I had a bunch of Kroger shopping bags in my car so those were going to be used as our bags to carry ALL our pine cone TREASURES !! well hopefully !! We had also hoped that they had not mowed yet, YEA they had Not ! We got out of the car bags in hand and looked at the ground it was covered with the " BEAUTIFUL WHITE PINE CONES "!!

Look at All these Beautiful White Pine Cones !

Yes Yes Yes ! We hit the "JACKPOT OF WHITE PINE CONES " When we walked up you saw all these red pine needles laying All over the ground and laying in the needles were white pine cones nestled down in and on the red needles!!

All thered pine needleswith the pine cones nestled about them

This was our first haul of pine cones four full bags of Beautiful White Pine Cones and there were so many more that we decided to go back home and find some more bags or boxes or what ever we could find , we definatly needed to get as much as we could before they started mowing and then we would have to wait until fall to gather more.

So we headed home found what we needed and then back to the VA only this time we drove around to the other side and YES there were many more WHITE PINE CONES" !

Heres my husband doing his share of picking up as many of the pine cones as we could.We really didn'thave to be very picky about the cones they were just ALL so perfect ! So we just grabbed and filled as much as we could fit in the bags and then we dumped them in a big plastic tub.

The plastic tub we filled up

Yep this is the final haul of the second trip back to get the pine cones. We ended up with a Total of a Full plastic tub and 6 full bags of the " BEAUTIFUL WHITE PINE CONES "

We are pretty sure we will have enough to pine cone roof every " ENGLISH COTTAGE GOURD BIRDHOUSE " for maybe the next couple of years. !!

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