Originally Posted By goodgirl Topic: The Holiday Season Question: Live tree or artificial? If live, where do you get it from?
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 Live. We get ours from the same people every year. They bring in a trailer full over great trees. The other choices here are Home Depot and one of the grocery stores and then this place called Cost U Less which is like a Sam's Club I guess. Their trees are pretty small though and since we have such high ceilings we need a big tree. I couldn't do a fake one and miss out on the wonderful smell!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Artificial. I love it. It avoids the pain of struggling with the base, getting water everywhere, having to saw off lower branches to make the thing fit in the base, and... THE LIGHTS. Had it about 3 years now.
Originally Posted By officerminnie Ditto what Toony said. For many years (over 20) we would go cut our own live tree at a tree farm. Now that DS's are older and sooooo busy, it makes more sense for us to have the fake one handy and dry and already lit, ready to go when we have the window of opportunity to set it up and decorate it. And you can have it up to enjoy for a longer period of time since you don't have to worry about it drying out and dropping needles everywhere. I do miss the smell of a live tree though, so I have a real wreath on the front door and take a whiff everytime I walk past .
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Here in Florida I have an artificial tree. It is too hard to keep the real ones alive for as long as I like to keep it up. When I lived in Ohio we used to get live trees with the rootball still on them and then after Christmas we planted it in the yard. We had to dig the hole and cover it before the first freeze. Lots of good memories of that!
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 <<Here in Florida I have an artificial tree. It is too hard to keep the real ones alive for as long as I like to keep it up.>> Hey if I can do it here in the Virgin Islands, you can do it in Florida!! ;-) We keep ours up until Three Kings Day.
Originally Posted By SuzieQ Live tree. We always buy it from the same vendor. He grows the trees himself, instead of being a 3rd-party vendor. His trees are always extremely fresh and last into New Year's without drying out much.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 We used to always do a live tree. We'd drive into the Santa Cruz Mountains and cut one down. The smell of the pine and the earth combined with sap on the hands and free candy canes and cider or hot chocolate was wonderful. When I married hubby, we discovered a place called The Johnson Farm and made that our new tradition. A charming little place... <a href="http://www.farmerrob.com/index-old.html" target="_blank">http://www.farmerrob.com/index -old.html</a> Since we've been in Anaheim the past couple of years (this will be our third Christmas here, already!) we switched to artificial. I went to Michael's and bought a few different sized trees and scattered them around the apartment. It looks really sweet... and I have my cinnamon pine cones and Christmas Tree & Cranberry Orange jar candles from Illuminations, so the place smells great. It's the next best thing for now. =)
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 We have a fake one, we are just to busy to keep the water in a live one. But they are just as pretty, I do miss the pine sent however.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 We live in Sonoma County where there are many tree farms. In fact our first home was on a tree farm We always went as a family to cut one down, listening to Disney Christmas music, then to Negri's in Occidental for dinner. This year for the first time, DH and I went to Costco and bought one already cut. We didn't even open up the wrapping string to judge it's shape. It's on the side of the house in a bucket of water. We'll put it up when we get home from DLR next week. I'm thankful that my mom decided to get an artificial one a few years ago It was huge though and took 3 of us to get the thing up. This year she got the "retro" one from Kmart and it is great! An artificial tree is in our near future
Originally Posted By DlandJB All artificial and two are pre-lit. What a wonderful thing, the pre-lit Christmas tree... I did pick up a live wreath, pointsettas and a rosemary plant that had been cut like a tree to add some real holiday fragrances to the house and yard. I love the smell of real trees but I do prefer the artificial ones for decorating.
Originally Posted By bloona a real one, from a farm about a mile away. BIG . (much bigger than it looked in the farm...lol)
Originally Posted By lesmisfan My family does have a artificail tree but i love, love real trees! as much as they are and as much effort as it takes keeping them alive. i just love having the scent of real xmas tree in the house. But i have to admit having a artificail tree is sometimes easier with setting up and what not and it was easy this year since the lights already came on it. We actually have a really good xmas tree this year. You would have thought it was a xmas display that we bought.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS We have a perfect sized artificial tree. The lights are all in the right spot, and it packs nicely. We tried a live tree with our two cats when they were babies, but they kept wanting to sit in the tree. It was knocked over so many times that we gave up. They don't do that in the fake tree.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Live only ever. Same lot year in and year out. My mom and I are pretty picky when it comes to our tree. I don't like the bushy ones. I like the Noble & Douglas Firs. One year we had a beautiful Deodara Cedar with blue green tips. Wow - it was beautiful.
Originally Posted By JazzCat I love real trees, but I hate to see spending $30+ for something I'll have for a month. We went to artificial about 10 years ago.
Originally Posted By RAM1984 Real tree ALWAYS!!!!!!!!! Sometimes we drive to Apple Hill with DD and family to cut our own. This year we will buy at Home Depot. Just love that smell.
Originally Posted By debtee I have a stunning living tree outside under my pergola in a big wine barrel pot and it looks adorable year after year all dressed up. I couldn't bear to cut down a real tree just for us to celebrate Christmas. Inside the house I usually have 2 large trees all dressed and 3 Mickey trees from DL and about 5 other little trees. ( I haven't put them all up this year as we going to DL ) They are artificial but it's funny we don't use that term here. They are simply called trees. Most people in Aus would not have a real tree, it's just not the norm to have a real tree cut down to celebrate the holidays. In fact I don't know anyone that will have a real tree this year! So we call all our Christmas trees...Trees! LOL
Originally Posted By smedley A real tree, and a smaller artificial one in the porch... This is the one thing we argue about in our house, I insist on a real tree, as it's a family tradition, DH would rather have a fake one, hopefully should be picking it up either Friday or Saturday this week from our local farm shop, which is where we always purchase it from, it will probably be a nordmann fir.
