Select Your Cut Christmas Tree This Weekend

This is the weekend to select your live Christmas Tree. There are several options to consider:

• purchase an already cut tree
• cut your own at a tree farm 
• select a balled and burlap tree to bring inside for Christmas and to replant outside  after the holidays

All of these are great options and actually all choices are indeed environmentally friendly as Christmas trees were commercially grown to be cut or dug.


The top selling cut Christmas trees are:

• Scotch
• White Pine
• Douglas Fir
• Noble Fir
• Fraser Fir
• Balsam Fir
• Colorado Spruce (best if locally cut as the tree is stiff and does not allow for shipment)

Though the Noble Fir is often times listed as the most popular tree, my experience was that the Scotch pine was the more popular and affordable tree, and generally, half the price of the fir varieties.

Most customers have a deep passion about the trees they select and the reason for their selection.

For this writer, the Firs are my favorite as they have soft needles; great fragrances; and ornaments and lights display nicely on the tree.

Finally, the top selling Christmas tree producers are the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Oregon and New York. And generally, the National Christmas or Rockefeller Center Christmas Trees have been Norway Spruces.
　
Tomorrow:
How to Select and Maintain a Cut or Live Christmas Tree