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Christmas tree
Rob Lockwood
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Hi all - compliments of the season! I wondered if anyone had had any success with a real Christmas tree? I was hoping for a decent-sized Norway Spruce to be re-planted in the garden in its pot each year (so I wouldn't have to dig it up every time) and potted up from time to time. Would I be able to keep, say, a 6ft one alive for a few years do you think?
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one of my neighbours had live xmas trees every year, in the middle of January they used to go and plant it on waste ground (that the council called a park - but was waste ground) this year I went down to the newly renovated park and there it a plantation of about 25 trees of all different sizes! be aware Norway spruce can get big very quickly!
Logan, which bit of the RHS website were you thinking of?
https://www.rhs.org.uk/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=rhs%5Fbrand&utm_content=brand%5Fmain%5Fe&utm_term=rhs
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My Christmas tree is in a pot, bought it as a coffee table tree 3 to 4 yrs ago for a couple of £'s and it's now about 4ft high. I've only potted it up twice. It's still looking good though and seems to thrive off neglect, I haven't watered mine since about September but we have had rain every day for over 4wks now and the back garden is looking like it may float away
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It will be repotted next yr too, about March time and get fresh compost.
They grow about a ft each yr in pots. I found a plastic pot better, it's lighter to lift when bringing your tree indoors and I bring it in a couple of days before Christmas eve, then stand it by the back door to climatize. It then goes in the lounge by the window, away from the central heating on a plastic tray. Once indoors it drinks alot of water, so the plastic tray, the pot stands on, needs checking each day, don't let the pot dry out. It's easier to water from the bottom and into the tray, if that makes sense.
In the New Year it goes back in the dining room for a couple of days before going out in the garden again. If we get snow it still goes out but is put in a sheltered spot.
Bought another coffee table tree this yr for £2.99 to replace the taller one when it dies, I'm given to understand they do not last many yrs in pots but I'm hoping my tree will be good for a couple more years to let it's replacement grow on.
I had one in a pot well over 20 years ago, but it started looking a bit unhappy so I planted it in the garden, it is now huge and so are the trees I bought for the next four years. Luckily I have a very big garden, they wouldn't fit in a small garden, but they are getting very tall and making too much shade on the shrubs planted below them.