{"id":3489,"date":"2017-09-13T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:35:56","slug":"the-long-needle-pine-that-had-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"The Long Needle Pine That Had to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we positioned the house, we set it just to the west of the beautiful long-needle pine. Off center, of course, because everything in my world is slightly off center. So there sat house and tree in what would evolve into the Bent Pine Farm Tea Garden in our first three years.<\/p>\n

We sailed through a couple of tropical storms, hardly worth mentioning. \u00a0 No hard-nose hurricanes for this piece of the peninsula! But, statistically, how long can your luck hold out? So, in Aug we braced for Hermoine, which struck the area as a category 1 storm, taking out power for a couple of days. \u00a0 And even more telling, cracking a couple of very large branches off my beautiful front yard pine.<\/p>\n

See the Post from July 26<\/a><\/p>\n

The pine branches that broke in Hermoine were an indication that long needle pines are much more brittle than the Sand Pines. \u00a0 A long needle pine standing that close to the house would most certainly split, crack apart and go straight through the roof. Would we be sadder to lose our front yard pine or deal with a gaping hole in the roof, or worse?<\/p>\n