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Sign Up. Please enter a valid email address The emails have been sent. Please consider subscribing to PureWow. Sign up for PureWow to get more daily discoveries sent straight to your inbox. Thanks for Sharing! Now like us on Facebook. Want more where that came from? By Alexia Dellner Oct. Additional reporting by Stephanie Sengwe. How to Keep Your Tree Looking Its Best So, you decided to go with a live tree and want to make sure it lives through the holiday season.
How to Decorate a Christmas Tree So the Frasier Fir you picked out in a dimly lit tree lot seemed great—until you put it up in your house and realized it had more gaping holes in it than the footer holding court at Rockefeller Center last year. Home Depot 8 ft.
Follow PureWow on Pinterest. Christmas tree farms typically open during the middle of November and start cutting trees for lot sales. These are commercial wholesale farms who often sell high-quality trees out the front door and smaller tree farms catering to "cutting your own tree".
These types of Christmas tree farms promote early sales in designated sections where Christmas trees are of age and in prime shape. Obviously, these areas yield better trees at the beginning of the season, and it's when you need to plan your visit. Farms selling trees online actually insist you place your order early in November. Although pricey, I've found holiday trees purchased on the Internet to be of higher quality than even the premium selects growing on a tree farm.
These trees are the grower's "best of the season" crop and harvested first. They will arrive in perfect condition and are stand-ready some farms even provide temporary stands with the tree. Instead of having to pick the perfect tree, you have professionals select the best for your holiday season. Most people don't realize that many Christmas trees bought on lots were cut in early to mid-November. So, when these trees are not purchased until after Thanksgiving, the drying process is well advanced and needle retention is often compromised.
You are just as well off, and in our opinion much better off, buying the tree early and following our recommendations on how to prepare it for optimum freshness over the rest of the season. Although you just might luck out and get a fresh tree late in the season, you should not consider yourself getting a fresh tree by purchasing after Thanksgiving weekend.
You just get a lower quality tree picked over with shedding needles as you delay your purchase. The sooner you get your Christmas tree in a watering stand after cutting, the longer will be the tree's needle retention. The above reasons are the perfect excuse to buy a tree early and enjoying it during the Thanksgiving season.
You should not consider yourself getting a fresh tree by purchasing later. The odds are that you just get a lower quality tree with shedding needles if purchased in December.
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For a Purpose. Spring interest plants Summer interest plants Autumn interest plants Winter interest plants. When to buy a real Christmas tree There's a careful balancing act to buying your Christmas tree sufficiently early to make sure the best trees are not sold out whilst also managing how much care and attention it will need whilst in the home. One option that gives you the best of both worlds is ordering online or by phone well in advance and having our garden centre staff reserve a tree that fits your requirements.
You can then arrange for it to be delivered on a day of your choosing or collected from our Staffordshire garden centre at your convenience. Remember that real Christmas trees have been living things; the right care and attention will make a big difference to how long they last. Keep it away from heat sources such as radiators and open fires and remember to top up the tree stand or water basis before it drops below the base of the trunk.
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