The first pic shows what this poor JBP looked like when it was given to me at the end of 2012. The person who had it hardly watered it all for the whole summer and by Nov. when I took over with it I wasn't sure there wasn't much I could with it except hope for the best. There were more brown and pale needles than green ones. The second pic is from today. It's been doing great ever since I started giving it the TLC it needed.