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Real or artificial? 🎄

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  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I think this is lovely,  @Athelas. I have not heard of it before. Those examples are beautiful. 
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Morning Live had a very interesting item on plastic versus real trees yesterday.
    For anyone who is interested and has access to the iplayer, the item starts around 18 minutes in.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00122tx/morning-live-series-3-01122021

  • WeaveyDaveyWeaveyDavey Posts: 575
    The main tree is unashamedly 'artificial' BUT it has charmed us for over 30 years AND was 'rescued from a trades skip at that!
    Whereas the diminutive tree originates from Ukraine: Now known to the family as "Doris's tree, it arrived in an overgrown shoebox & is made up of 50-odd wire strands, clad in silver tinsel. It graces a tabletop or windowledge.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited December 2021
    The first part of this gives Bunny's take on the question.

    Great to see her promoting cob and composting loos too.


  • Ante1Ante1 Posts: 3,085
    Beautiful photos of your trees. Every year I buy real, potted tree, and after holidays I plant it near my cottage. This year I have lovely Nordman fir.


    Croatia
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    @Ante1 I also have a Nordman fir ... in the garden, makes for a lovely natural Xmas tree all year round, but even more like it under the snow.

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I'll be getting the artificial tree out again for indoors, but I might buy a potted tree to go outside by the front door. The supermarkets have them for about the price of a really good bunch of flowers so if it lasts a couple of years, that's reasonable.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Ante1Ante1 Posts: 3,085
    Gorgeous tree @Papi Jo. At the beginning of December I'll go to buy Christmas tree. Still don't know which variety, but I'm lucky that I have enough space at cottage to plant them all. 
    Croatia
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Lidl have 5 ft Nordmanns for £19 yesterday.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Hi! Here's my Xmas tree for Xmas 2022. Natural, cheap, dwarf size, naturally gilded, black Xmas balls... what more would you wish? ;)
    PS.- No prizes given for guessing what it's made of, but you can always try to guess.

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