Species of trees favored for Christmas trees have changed over the years. It certainly isn’t going to get any fresher sitting around on the tree lot. Important Point Number One: buy it early, and get it in water. Because of the short sales season, Christmas trees are harvested in advance, bundled, and sent by truck to the garden centers and Christmas tree sales lots, so, When my wife was growing up in central Wisconsin, one of her summer jobs as a teenager was shearing Christmas trees with a machete. They are sheared and shaped to make a full, Christmas-tree shaped tree.
Freshness counts, water is important, cool temperatures and some humidity in the house are better than hot and dry.įirst: Christmas trees are grown on farms, or “plantations,” specifically for harvest as Christmas trees. Different types of trees hold their needles for shorter or longer times, just as, say, a cut mum lasts longer than a cut rose in a flower arrangement. Well, think of a Christmas tree as sort of a large cut flower. What are the keys to a long-lasting Christmas tree this season if you are planning on enjoying a cut tree instead of an artificial tree?
