Faux Frosted Pine and Cypress Stems in 3 Styles for Christmas Vases

A single faux stem with a soft white frost over every needle and frond, in three styles: a frosted pine sprig, a cypress spray set with berries and small brown cones, and a rustic bare branch tipped with snowy tufts. Stand one in a narrow bottle vase on the sideboard, line two sizes up along the mantel, or mix all three in a jug and the room looks like the first cold morning of winter.

No water to change. No needles on the floor by Christmas Eve. It goes back in the box when the season ends and comes out looking the same next year.

The look of a snowy walk, without anything wilting on the shelf

Cut greenery looks wonderful for a week or so, and then the tips go brown, the vase water clouds over and needles collect on the shelf underneath. These stems skip all of that. They are PE plastic with a white flocked finish, so there is nothing to water or sweep up, and the shape you set out at the start of the season is still there at the end of it.

The frost is a matte, chalky white, thickest on the tips and upper faces, with soft sage green showing through underneath. That mix is what makes it read as snow settling on a branch rather than a stem sprayed white.

Which of the three to pick

Pine is the classic one. Each sprig is a column of short frosted needles around a slim green stem, tapering to one upright tip like a small Christmas tree. Small and Medium are slim and simple, made for a bud vase or a row of bottles on a windowsill. Large is fuller and wider, and it is the only Pine with cones, about four small frosted ones tucked among the sprigs.

Berry is the most festive of the three. Its lacy cypress fronds spray out wide, frosted white with fresh green showing at the tips, and each stem carries small berries and natural brown cones. The two sizes are genuinely different: Small is a wide fan with two cones and soft pale pink berries, while Large is taller than it is wide, with one cone and raspberry red berries on thin stalks.

Rustic is the quiet one. A bare, gray-brown forked branch carries airy tufts of frosted foliage at its tips, so you see the shape of the twigs through it. It looks at home on a mantel beside stoneware, wood and candles, and it adds air to a mixed arrangement.

One stem, and a few ways to use it

Each order is one stem, and the vase is not included. A single stem in a tall, narrow bottle looks deliberate rather than sparse, and two sizes of one style side by side is the easiest arrangement there is. Pine comes in three lengths, Berry and Rustic in two, with exact sizes in the specifications.

For a fuller jug, order a few and mix the styles: Pine Large for height, Rustic for an open, twiggy outline, Berry for a little color in the middle. A stem also lies flat along a table runner between candles, tucks into a wreath or a garland, or slides under the twine of a wrapped present.

Specifications

Type: Faux frosted stem, sold individually

Styles: Pine (frosted pine needles), Berry (frosted cypress with berries and cones), Rustic (frosted tufts on a bare brown branch)

Material: PE plastic with white flocking

Pine Small dimensions: 13.8 x 4.7 in (35 x 12 cm)

Pine Medium dimensions: 17.7 x 5.9 in (45 x 15 cm)

Pine Large dimensions: 23.6 x 7.9 in (60 x 20 cm)

Berry Small dimensions: 13.8 x 11.8 in (35 x 30 cm)

Berry Large dimensions: 19.7 x 10.6 in (50 x 27 cm)

Rustic Small length: 11 in (28 cm)

Rustic Large length: 15.7 in (40 cm)

Pine weight: Small 0.9 oz (25 g), Medium 2.1 oz (60 g), Large 4.2 oz (120 g)

Cones: About four on Pine Large, two on Berry Small, one on Berry Large; none on Pine Small, Pine Medium or Rustic

Berries: Pale pink on Berry Small, raspberry red on Berry Large

Vase: Not included

Use: Indoors, in a vase, on a mantel or table, or in a wreath, garland or gift wrap

Package Includes

1x Faux Frosted Stem in the style and size you choose