Balsam Hill Trees

[MaryBerriesNiece]

I bought 2 Balsam Hill trees last year and wasn’t happy with how they looked. I don’t know if I should have spent more time fluffing them up though! Someone told me today to assemble them and leave them a week before decorating them.

If anyone has any tips I’d really appreciate them.

You have to spend a lot of time fluffing them with your gloves. My first Christmas I was the same and was quite disappointed but the second year my tree was much better after fluffing the branches.

There was a thread on here, probably in 2017, about this. And apparently you have to spend WAY more time than you think actually fluffing the tree.

Thank you, I’ll go and search for that thread. I’m determined they’ll look good this year.

@MaryBerriesNiece The first year is the hardest to fluff because it is so tightly packed, the second year feels better because you get the hang of it.

But this video by Balsam Hill shows you how to do each branch, so you pull the small branches either up or to the side, that way the next level of branches almost sits on top of the first layer, leaving hardly any gaps at all. I luckily have 2 sons who love doing this, I demo it then all 3 of us do 2 or 3 branches each per layer.

We know that this part takes time so we always do the tree fluffing in the morning, have lunch in the lounge whilst looking at the tree and sort out any gaps then decorate it in the afternoon.