Am I going to get shot down if I ask to tell me about your Easter trees...

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I would like an Easter tree, with budding foliage which we will go and forage for, tastefully chosen little eggs, bunnies and Easter trinkets which will be added to over the years.

DH is fucking thrilled.

Show and tell me about yours, best branches to use, do you bulk it up with cheaper eggs to make it look less bare, how long do you have it out for, does anything go underneath it, any traditions associated with it?

I have never heard of such a thing. Do you put it up on Easter Day as part of the celebrations? It sounds lovely. Please share pictures!

What do you mean by forage for budding foliage? If you’re planning to chop off a few branches of a tree you don’t own… please don’t.

Do you have any branches in your garden/ a friend/relative’s garden you could use? Cherry blossom would be lovely.

There was a thread on here a wee while ago about this.

I'd rather stab my own eyeballs than do this, but it was quite sweet really.

My grandma is german and they decorated the trees outside when she was little. I used to decorate the tree in her garden when I was little.

I don't know if I want an Easter tree in the house but I'd like to make some Easter bunting.

@ODFOx if you put Easter tree into Google it comes up with lots but this one is my favourite as a lot of them are just bare branches and I like the greenery and buds on this..

Does anyone know if this is blossom or something different?

Here is a previous year's tree. However the eggs are polystyrene from Poundland, daubed by DS rather than any carefully curated collection.

Ooops forgot picture.

I like Easter trees so much I posted it twice

@TheYearOfSmallThings aww that’s lovely.

My mother in law is German and does this with forsythia

My mum always used to do an Easter tree with forsythia from the garden, and when I bought a house she would bring some round for me to do one as well. She had little wooden Easter decorations that she would hang on the branches, it was lovely. I miss her.

We have one! They have very pretty glass eggs/baubles for them in Sainsburys at the moment.

Never heard of them. Decorating your terrace with an olive branch or palm is traditional where I am (Spain), but foliage with chocolate eggs hanging from them? My mum and aunt rolled their eyes.

Last year I made one in a vase with willow. My 6 year old pestered and pestered and pestered me for one. I had to admit, it looked quite nice.

We are away on holiday for Easter this year, and the kids were VERY concerned about how to manage it this year. So I bought a sodding tree from John Lewis.

It has a mix of decorations. I’ve just bought a puffin decoration. We have some painted blown eggs and some wooden bunnies and also some home made clay things. Scattered around the base are some (hideous) fluffy chicks.

My mum is Eastern European and these trees are quite common I believe.
I've do one most years and have tiny, beautifully carved and painted eggs to put on it.
I also have a bowl with Pisanki ( larger painted and /or carved eggs that are very popular in Ukraine and Poland.
I tend not to do one if we're away visiting family as it seems a bit pointless then.

Lovely photos.

We made one during the first lockdown with a dead branch painted white and stuck in a colourful flowerpot, it has coloured pom-poms sewn all over the branches and is a spring table decoration (not just Easter).
There is no way I would have bothered if it had not been set as a "project" from school....

Lovely idea