Can I get a tree and put it up

[Sallycinnamonyouremyworlddd]

Next Saturday…a real tree, will it last?

Yes, provided you don’t erect it next to a radiator and you must keep it in water.

Dunno - but I have to be away for work the first two weeks of December, so we're getting ours next weekend and seeing how we go!

I got a real one at the start of December last year and it lasted ok. It was well away from radiators.

Will not be near any radiators, mot sure we normally have it in water though 🤔😬
Does it seem too early too?

I get mine the weekend after the 5th - it usually lasts until after New Year but when I put it out for recycling it's definitely on the way out.

No. It will be dead by Christmas. A water base will help a little.

Advent Sunday is quite late this year (3 Dec) and from then until Twelfth Night is 5 weeks.

Not sure how much more than that a tree would last. But if you're only adding one more week so it should be OK

As above, stand it away from a heat source and keep it well watered.

The trees that are bought in the middle of December haven't necessarily been cut any later than those bought in November...

There's loads in pots this year it seems, so you might have reasonable luck with one. Keep cool and well-watered.

I’m sure last years was on a wooden stand never watered, am I imagining that 😬

We got one in a pot for this reason (also away in December so want to make the most of it!) normally we chop our own and then it lasts absolutely ages, if in a cool spot and watered it should be fine!

Not in my experience no

It will be fine. As others have said, keep it away from radiators / fire and top up the water daily. Cut trees, like cut flowers, last longer in water

Get a nordman fir. We got one 1st December last year, put it in the bay window next to a radiator and had hardly any drop until we took it down a few days after New year.

Year before last we put a nordman fir in our builders skip after Christmas and it still had almost all its needles in June.