Christmas Tree Sorted?
Friday, November 25
What are you planning to have for a Christmas tree this year?
If you're like our family we've always gone for plastic Christmas trees over buying a fir that lasts a couple of days and then die. However, when I was a child, my dad did buy a fir for a couple of years in a row and I remember the fragrance that would waft through the house afterwards. Sentimentality....
Another option which we've toyed with is growing a container conifer which we can bring indoors each year for Christmas and then leave outside for the rest of the year. It makes a lot of sense. A living, breathing, non-plastic tree which doesn't take up storage space and can be reused year after year.
What does your family do for a Christmas Tree? Do you buy a cut fir prior to Christmas, keep a container conifer, or just bring out the plastic?
Gardening Christmas Tree
posted by Stuart at 9:41:00 AM
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Realistic fake trees are quite expensive, but can look lovely decorated. We had an ugly little plastic tree for several years but now we usually buy a small cut pine tree as the smell is appealing and I don't have to store it for the rest of the year. It ultimately becomes compost. My parents only started having a Christmas Tree after the grandchildren began arriving and a variety of tree branches were used at different times - Wild Cherry, Eucalypt, or any other type of bushy branches that looked suitable - in fact, whatever we could find down the paddock. The only one we could never find was a pine tree. No matter what type of tree was used, they all looked good decorated and the everyone was happy.
2:12 PM
I've been using a dwarf Alberta spruce (Picea Glauca Conica) in a container as my Christmas tree for years; it's worked out perfectly. You have to be careful, though, to slowly acclimatize it when moving it indoors (or back outside).
8:08 AM
Being a Canadian, I cannot imagine using a fake tree. We only have our tree up for 7-10 days and the house smells lovely. Conifers don't do well in containers inside with our dry heat. I imagine that they would do okay there because it is summer and they wouldn't get shocked from the cold to hot to the cold again. If you have a place to plant one afterwards that would be the route that I would go. I love conifers!!
11:00 AM
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