Last year we lost our Christmas tree and all decs in a fire. Long sad story. So we started from scratch. Bought a real tree for the first time from a local farm. A bit clueless but listening to instructions from the farm we chopped an inch off the bottom as suggested, put it up first weekend of December, watered it lots (it was very thirsty!) and it was just lovely, stayed up until the 6th jan and it was still in good shape, barely lost any needles.
So after last year’s success we popped along to the farm last weekend and got another - it’s been sitting in the conservatory ever since (did this last year as well), the kids want to put it up this weekend.
But RL friends and people on Msnet are telling me that it’s FAR too early to put up a real Christmas tree, it’ll lose all its needles and look really twiggy by Christmas etc. DH says “ah, it’s because they’re not looking after it properly” (I.e.
not watering it) and reckons ours will be fine again this year.
So people who are experienced at real trees, is my dh right or we we just exceptionally lucky last year? The farm did give us their usual marketing speed about “only sourcing the very best trees” etc. we paid £50 for a six foot tree, no idea what the going rate is.