Does anyone buy a real Christmas tree anymore?

[Doughnuts68]

Does anyone buy a real Christmas tree anymore?

Yes we buy a real tree every year

Yes. Every year.

Can’t stand fake plants of any kind, be it Christmas tree or flowers or (shudder) astroturf. Real tree every year which we compost in the garden once done.

We get a Nordmann Fir, put it near a window and turn off the closest radiator, saw off a chunk from the bottom of the trunk before decorating, water regularly. Very little needle drop, lasts from first week of December to first week of Jan. I have a toddler and it’s not been an issue, we don’t leave him unsupervised around the tree though.

I would love to but can't as I love my DD more and I want her to be able to visit so I have an artificial tree.

We have two - both potted so they shed fewer needles. The smaller one lives in the garden all year and comes inside for December. I did suggest we got a nice artificial one instead but DC1 won't settle for that! They'll be at Uni next year though, so we may go with that option instead.

I don’t know anyone who has an artificial one.

A lot of people are allergic to them, DH is

I’m allergic to them but buy them anyway: I spend December with my eyes streaming and constantly sneezing, but it’s preferable to getting a fake tree, to which I’m aesthetically allergic

@stuntbubbles aesthetically allergic is a fantastic phrase, I am going to start using that very matter of factly with a straight face.

We get given one.

That's a sweet, lovely message.

We always get a real tree from a local farm just 4 miles from our house. The local Rotary arrange collection of trees for composting for charity in the New Year. Looking at that article and its assumptions about the transport and disposal of a real tree it'll take a lot longer than 10 years of a plastic tree to be more environmentally friendly than mine. And that's before you even think about the romance and smell and beauty of a real tree.

It seems like I am the only person who has a real living tree in a pot which is used every year! I would've thought this is the ideal solution (unless you want a very big tree, I guess, in which case the pot would be too heavy to move. Ours is as tall as me, 5 foot 3). I can't move the pot but DH can.

It seems like I am the only person who has a real living tree in a pot which is used every year!

We have a real living tree that was once in a pot and now lives outside. It gets decorated every year, although that is getting harder because it’s now about eighteen feet tall.

We tried this and killed the first one, I’ve been trying to find somewhere to rent one but nowhere local to me does them sadly,

Always! I love the smell of a real tree. I usually by one potted and plant it afterwards. It also means I can water it so it doesn't drop so many needles.

Yes of course.

As a Yule tree, an artificial one would rather miss the point

Artifical all the way. I prefer not to spend Christmas clawing my eyes out thanks to allergies and hoovering the floor every five minutes thanks to needles.

@theDudesmummy , besides the indoor (cut) one, we have a small, pot grown one outside the front door every year. I usually manage to keep them for 3 years, current one is in its 2nd year, quite a bit bigger than last year. Sadly can’t plant them in the garden - it’s too small.

When I was a kid with generally skint parents, we had a really tiny tree one year, which was planted in the garden afterwards and dug up again for several subsequent Christmases. But it evidently wasn’t too happy about being endlessly disturbed and turned an odd shape, so that eventually the boy next door (who I fancied at 14 or so) said, ‘Has your Christmas tree had a heart attack?’ 😂
Eventually the poor thing was pensioned off and allowed to grow properly - we did have a big enough garden for it.

I would like to buy a potted one this year but don't know where to buy one.

Oh!
Lovely whatwouldleslieknopedo
I think of her often. And BOF.
💙💙💙💙💔

We bought ours outside Belsize Park tube station at Christmas 2006. The man told us it would not last more than one season.

It's still going strong! Gets new growth every spring. It gets a bit unhappy indoors by the end of December but soon perks up when it goes outside again. It particularly enjoys having moved to Ireland because of all the rain!

Yes, I can’t think of when I’ve had an artificial one since I’ve been a grown up. Ours costs £25-30. It’s lovely. We try to keep Christmas simple, but I do enjoy a tree and nice food rather have that than extra plastic tat as presents.

Yes. It’s a expensive, awkward, litter dropping ritual. And it smells divine and looks amazing and it wouldn’t be Christmas without it 😂🎄❤️

Do you think it's a class thing?