Much as I dislike Christmas, I don't think that 'christmas trees' are such a bad thing. They are a carbon sink and (in UK at least, many of them are recycled).
Basically, small 'christmas trees' are thinnigs from plantations where other trees will be grown on to a larger size to produce timber. This is one of the great things about forestry, that you can extract trees year after year and yet still have big trees left at the end. I would prefer, in genreal to see native woods
but if you have to have plantations then let them be sequential!
In our case, have I written this before?, we dig up yew seedlings from the wood, pot them up, grow them on for a year or so and then replant them ... yews have more character (we think!) than the conifers ....
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Originally Posted by goosey
It always use to make me sad to see all the Christmas trees with sawn off trunks every year, so we always had an artificial one until last year. That was when we found a nursery we could get a tree in a pot for 13 euros (or more for a bigger one) we got a lovely smelling Picea omorika (Serbian Spruce)then after Christmas you can take them back to be replanted and get a 5 euro voucher back to spend in the nursery. Last year we never bothered as it was such a nice tree I put it in the front forecourt garden, where it is still doing well. This year I won’t have room, so it will be going back to be replanted! It's a much better idea than just leaving them in the street to be collected and made into mulch or burned and I won’t feel guilty.
It’s not all perfect, I have had a reaction to the needles manoeuvring and decorating it and have a very itchy rash, the stupid thing is the same happened last year  . |