Balsam hill trees

[Tiredmummyof3]

Are they really as good as they say?! I want a realistic looking fake tree and I want 7foot! I've seen one on BH website on the black Friday sale that's £189 or £289 prelit. It's such alot of money and it worries me that you obviously can't see it properly!
Do they look expensive or would I be better just going to Tesco and getting one?!

I’ve got one, definitely better quality once you’ve fluffed all the branches out. Prelit makes it so much easier too.

This is mine. It’s the 6.5ft Fraser fir. I would’ve preferred white lights but my husband said it didn’t justify the extra cost (extra £100).

I love mine a lot. I only got a small 4 foot one but if I had the room, I would totally go for a bugger one

Bigger. Ffs. Bigger

And this is what happens when DH gets hold of the Balsam Hill catalogue first

I'm also wondering about getting a 6ft one. I'd prefer prelit but not sure it justifies the extra £100. Do you think the prices woo will do any further?

We’ve got the 7’ prelit slim BH Fraser fir , it’s well worth the money , it looks good even undecorated . The only thing I would say is it’s not particularly slim ! My dh was very sceptical when I suggested BH a couple of years ago but he’s now a convert .

We have a pre lit balsam hill 6 or 7 foot tree. It was a present one year from my mum and dad. I absolutely love it. It does take quite a lot of faffing with the branches to plump them out but it does look good. I can’t imagine us ever replacing it.

I bought ours 2 weeks ago but if I’d waited I could have saved another £30!

Do you think the prices woo will do any further?

It’s more likely that the one you want will sell out, doubt they’ll drop any further, this us the third reduction.

I looked at these, pre lit. How many years do the lights last? A tree that wont light up would be awful.
(Got an issue with the lights failing mid Christmas already! I pre-date LED and, as a child of the 1950s, remember my father's annual git-fest over the fucking tree lights It was virtually his one job. That and fetching the extra chairs.)

Thanks for the responses! The £100 extra does seem alot for lights! I'm so pleased that the general census is that they are great! Not sure the prices will drop any further @TFSRM

@rosamacrose yeah I wondered how long the lights would last! A pre lit tree with no lights would be abit crap! They do come with extra bulbs etc

Yeah I love our one it's a 6ft pre lit one

I know I always say this on the 'which artificial tree? ' threads, but do have a look at ChristmasTreeWorld. I cannot see how our 8ft Woodland pine could be improved upon. Cheaper than BH.

@TrickyD I'll have a look thanks. It's so hard online as you just can't tell properly what they are like do it's good to go with a recommendation!

I didn’t like the look of the bulbs on the pre-lit one, they’re the old fashioned fairy light style.

The bulbs look fine on ours , they push in ,I think ,and we definitely have spares .

We have one and though they are expensive I do think it’s worth DH the money. It packs away so well and every year looks good as new.