Christmas Trees: Real or Fake?

[rehab71]

As per the title?

I think I'm the only person at work who has a real tree and I think it's a real shame. Was so much fun as a child going to pick the tree not to mention the lovely smell!

What's the PH consensus?

Edited by rehab71 on Saturday 14th December 12:22

[StuntmanMike]

For the last 12 year's we've had real, this year though a fake, ill get a real one next year, I can't be added this year, no Christmas spirit.

[TRB]

I prefer real trees, but we have a fake (one of those pre-lit ones), as the wife wears the trousers in or house.

[Justaredbadge]

Real.

Easiest option this year, ordered off the web. next day delivery. job jobbed.

didn't even need to fold the seats down in the car or any of the usual crap. Same price as from a forestry commission site up the road.

[duncancallum]

fake, only cos the missus wants a tree I would rather have none. because I am a miserable bd.

[HTP99]

Real and always have done; it is a tradition in my family that myself and the youngest (now 14) go and chose it, she gets very embarassed as I go armed with a pair of scissors to cut the trees out of their netting so that I can get a proper look at them.

£45 this year though for a 6-7ft Nordman fir (?), it does look good though and is very bushy.

Funny thing is in the summer I baulk at spending £30 odd on a nice evergreen potted plant for the garden however I'll spend £45 on a tree that I'll chuck away in three weeks time!!

Edited by HTP99 on Saturday 14th December 13:01

[RDM]

HTP99 said:

Real and always have done; it is a tradition in my family that myself and the youngest (now 14) go and chose it, she gets very embarassed as I go armed with a pair of scissors to cut the trees out of their netting so that I can get a proper look at them.

£45 this year though for a 6-7ft Nordman fir (?), it does look good though and is very bushy.

Funny thing is in the summer I baulk at spending £30 odd on a nice evergreen potted plant for the garden however I'll spend £45 on a tree that I'll chuck away in three weeks time!!

Edited by HTP99 on Saturday 14th December 13:01

£45 is expensive for a 6-7ft tree though is it not?

[McWigglebum4th]

Real, very real

As it is still planted in the garden

Keeps me happy as we don't have a tree in the house

Keeps the wife happy as we have a huge and pretty tree

[MikeO996]

RDM said:

HTP99 said:

Real and always have done; it is a tradition in my family that myself and the youngest (now 14) go and chose it, she gets very embarassed as I go armed with a pair of scissors to cut the trees out of their netting so that I can get a proper look at them.

£45 this year though for a 6-7ft Nordman fir (?), it does look good though and is very bushy.

Funny thing is in the summer I baulk at spending £30 odd on a nice evergreen potted plant for the garden however I'll spend £45 on a tree that I'll chuck away in three weeks time!!

Edited by HTP99 on Saturday 14th December 13:01

£45 is expensive for a 6-7ft tree though is it not?

£70 where we were this morning

[RDM]

MikeO996 said:

£70 where we were this morning

I paid £28+VAT for an 8'...

[Johnny]

Much prefer real, but an executive decision was made.

Money would be better spent on alcohol and other sundries. So it has been

Next year...

[vixen1700]

Ours is fake but made from real branches, had it for about 6 years now.

[martinnitram]

I prefer a real tree, but which is kinder to the polar bears? killing real trees is surely going to raise the sea levels to ankle depth, but then dont they replant them afterwards making the practice polar bear neutral?

Or fake ones, no tree has to die doing it this route, but what about the plastic ste there made from.

I really dont know which way is the kindest to the planet, i think ill go for a drive while i think about it. Oh no, cant do that either.

[Mobile Chicane]

I'd always go for a real one. It has that 'smell of Christmas' you can't put a price on.

[Mastodon2]

Fake, easier for me and it doesn't shed needles, and can be used year after year.

[Poison Tom 96]

We've got an 8 foot real tree, currently sat round the back atm. Putting it up tomorrow but feel about as un-Christmassy as possible.

[LocoCoco]

martinnitram said:

I prefer a real tree, but which is kinder to the polar bears? killing real trees is surely going to raise the sea levels to ankle depth, but then dont they replant them afterwards making the practice polar bear neutral?

Or fake ones, no tree has to die doing it this route, but what about the plastic ste there made from.

I really dont know which way is the kindest to the planet, i think ill go for a drive while i think about it. Oh no, cant do that either.

I reckon real trees are better for the environment, they probably plant most of them specifically to sell, these are millions of trees that otherwise wouldn't exist. Also, like you say, the plastic factory probably pumps out a lot of crap.

[bigee]

A 6-7ft Nordmann Fir,the most popular tree by far, is grown for around 7 years....it is specifically planted as a crop but in that 7 years it has provided habitat etc that would not have been there otherwise.Also,they are constantly replanted so same applies.Prices will vary a lot depending on mainly A- where you are in the country and B- what 'grade' the tree is, between £40-£50 is about right (Central London or areas where powerfully built PH Directors live may well pay a premium over this !!)

[Tango13]

LocoCoco said:

martinnitram said:

I prefer a real tree, but which is kinder to the polar bears? killing real trees is surely going to raise the sea levels to ankle depth, but then dont they replant them afterwards making the practice polar bear neutral?

Or fake ones, no tree has to die doing it this route, but what about the plastic ste there made from.

I really dont know which way is the kindest to the planet, i think ill go for a drive while i think about it. Oh no, cant do that either.

I reckon real trees are better for the environment, they probably plant most of them specifically to sell, these are millions of trees that otherwise wouldn't exist. Also, like you say, the plastic factory probably pumps out a lot of crap.

A tree whilst growing absorbs three times as much CO2 and pumps out three times as much Oxygen as a mature tree that has stopped growing.

If CO2 really is the Devils bum gas then by growing and then shredding Christmas trees we are capturing and storing CO2 meaning we can all have a V8 now and sod the next generation.

[Justaredbadge]

£35 quid delivered.

fking paying double that. I can only presume that you bought it within the London area.