Buying a real tree online - are they any good?

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I love a real tree!

I'm considering buying one from one of the many many companies online and getting it delivered this year. But I'm very obsessive picky about my tree - I'm the nightmare customer who asks to see a dozen different ones before finally choosing the first one.

So I'm afraid an online tree might arrive and be lopsided, uneven, and generally crap.

Has anyone done it before? Did you have a positive or negative experience?

Why would you buy it online rather than just going to a local garden centre and choosing one there? Most garden centres deliver if it is just getting it home which worries you. If you are as fussy about your tree as you say you are, I don't think any online tree, no matter how straight/bushy/green whatever, is going to totally satisfy you.

I've always ordered mine online. First year was from pines and needles but I was really underwhelmed by it, it was very thin. Since then I've ordered from send me a Christmas tree and there's are much better. Exact amount of bushyness I like and they last the whole of December!

billingleychristmastrees.co.uk/?prodid=429&catid=3

I get mine from here and they are AMAZING. Get a Fraiser Fir.

Everyone who I've recomended this to has always gone back again.

I've just ordered mine

I get mine from the same place as Smiles. They are fab and very reliable. beautiful trees.

We are surrounded by Christmas tree farms, so you wander into a field and get one chopped down.

Remembering to take a tape measure, they seem to grow when you get them home.

The main reason I'm looking online is because ideally I want a very large tree (8 or 9 feet) and the local places don't have much that big. I've gotten 7+feet the last two years but it isn't quite big enough for the window I like to put it in.

Has anyone had to send a rubbish one back? Is that possible?

Seriously in that case a farm is your friend. Ours always has lots that are bigger than the garden centres sell.

We are always rejecting nice trees that are a bit tall.

I think they let them grow another year or three, because people who bother to drive out there are often after floor to celling trees and like you, some of the Victorian houses in town have lots of space in high windows.

Also lots of pub restaurants and country churches which need decent sized trees to look sensible.

No I like to choose my own. Trees vary so much and what shape fits one room may not fit another.

I like to choose my own. I buy from the forestry commission. Might be worth googling to see if they have somewhere near you. All the profits go into replanting/ training schemes so comes with a feel good factor!

The place I linked to has tress that size. Honestly OP, you won't be dissapointed.

Think of those big bushy trees you see in American films? - THAT'S what I get every single year. 8-9ft Supreme Fraiser Fir. I'm getting the size down from that as I end up having to trim loads off.

Big and bushy all round doesn't work. I want the lopsided one that got planted too close to another tree.

My room isn't very big, it has to tuck back in
The corner to get, 5 adults and two adult sized teens in the room.

In the past, of course, the DDs were smaller, but the presents bigger.

elephants- that was the tree I used to buy!!

I looked for one that was bushier on one side than tho other.making it easier to tuck a big tree into the corner of a small room.

I have moved now to a bigger house- we may even need two trees this year.

It's not an especially small house, but it was once a two up two down cottage, that's been extended, it doesn't have bay windows and it does have the stair case in the living room.