The tree is locally grown and will be shredded and composted. I was a little worried about the environmental impact but I am doing all I can to reduce it and as others have said cut flowers are equally ā harmfulā and I wouldnāt be without them.Ā
There are lots of things that some folk would consider āwasteā ā¦ I know someone who has no time for novels or poetry and considers that using paper and ink for such books is a waste of resources ā¦ I consider them an essential part of human life ā¦
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A plant grows ā¦ it dies ā¦ it decomposes into the soil ā¦ whereās the waste?Ā
I get what you are saying but again people look at everything with a fine toothed comb nowadays andĀ I think in this context it would be all the energy that goes into the plants production/transportation. If they were just popping up naturally and you went and cut your own, they would be as green as you could get but they are a commercial product, many are simply dumped after Christmas and it's important they are responsibly recycled.
People who don't recycle or consider the environmental impact of what they buy will not think twice about a real or a plastic tree for Xmas.
Those of us who do know that a real tree is environmentally better than a fake as, even if it does end up in landfill it will not be leaving microplastics in the ground and to the food chain for millennia and while it's growing it's absorbing CO2 and emitting oxygen.Ā Ā As for ornamental plants being useless - ridiculous.Ā They give pleasure to those who grow them or just look at them.Ā They also provide habitat and shelter for insects and their nectar, pollen, seeds and berries - if the varieties are wisely chosen - provide food for a wide variety of insects and some birds and mammals.
The energy that goes into its growth is the same as with any hardy plant ā¦ ie ānot a lotā ā¦ itās a pretty low input crop ā¦ not a hothouse plant ā¦ and while itās growing itās contributing to carbon storage etc Ā and if, as many folk do, you buy from a local farmer or smallholder youāre not using a lot of energy to fetch it and youāre contributing to the livelihood of someone whoās job is planting and growing trees.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've had the same two fake trees for years. One is an aluminium job that my grandparents bought in the 50s, the other a small cheap IKEA thing. I'm not very picky about such things so I don't mind that the cheap one looks cheap as it's mainly just a vehicle for my collection of glass ornaments.
Real trees make me sneeze so I avoid them, but I do like to have fresh greenery. I will probably go down to the local woodland next week and cut a bit of ivy and dogwood to make some kind of decorative garland to put by the fireplace.Ā
But you don't have to have a "fir" tree to have at Christmas.
We have had over many years different plants that we decorated and then planted them outside.
We still have these great trees/shrubs in our garden after many decades.
The most brilliant one has been Trachycarpus fortunei. When small as the Christmas tree we decorated it with very fragile "gold" decorations. It did look brilliant and then was planted out. Today it is a magnficent palm with a very strong trunk and over 10 metres tall.
When the wind blows (as it does a lot!) the movement of the palm leaves are wonderful.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Those of us who do know that a real tree is environmentally better than a fake as, even if it does end up in landfill it will not be leaving microplastics in the ground and to the food chain for millennia and while it's growing it's absorbing CO2 and emitting oxygen.Ā Ā As for ornamental plants being useless - ridiculous.Ā They give pleasure to those who grow them or just look at them.Ā They also provide habitat and shelter for insects and their nectar, pollen, seeds and berries - if the varieties are wisely chosen - provide food for a wide variety of insects and some birds and mammals.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Real trees make me sneeze so I avoid them, but I do like to have fresh greenery. I will probably go down to the local woodland next week and cut a bit of ivy and dogwood to make some kind of decorative garland to put by the fireplace.Ā