O, Tannenbaum

Just wondering who gets trees to celebrate Christmas or another winter holiday. I got a potted tree this year because I feel bad killing a tree just for decorative purposes, I'll keep it potted until it gets too big to bring inside every year and then plant it. If you do get a tree, do you prefer a live (cut) tree, artificial or a live (potted) tree?

 

We have an artificial tree. Just once I'd like a live tree, but not until we have our own yard so I can plant it in the spring. I have a hard time imagining throwing a whole tree away too.
love,
mom

 

I've seen those too. They're really pretty, and useful too I guess.

 

I should try that some year... but I still can't manage to keep an aloe plant alive. (sigh) My mom says I've officially got a black thumb.
love,
mom

 

Ha, I killed a cactus through neglect.


My parents had a real tree the first year they were married, but decided it was a pain in the arse so got a fake one instead.

Real trees are better for the enviroment; as they do the whole co2- oxygen respiration thing whilst growning, then rot down to compost. Though I'm sentimental about our fake tree. It's been around my whole life, so couldn't quite imagine not having it there. That said we probably won't put it up this year because the puppy would eat/destroy it.

 

I have a little tiny fake one but my parents usually get a real one. At least they're grown on tree farms and not cut from the forest though. I'd like to try buying a potted tree and planting it at the end of the season sometime - it seems so pointless to cut down the tree and then let it rot slowly in your living room and then throw it out... yet another casualty of our careless, throw-away consumer culture.

 

I heard about that! Think it was Mary down at Mac's in Crestone that told me about it.

Funny that we don't have something similar up here, with all the forest fires that run through our evergreens. Not even in Duluth do we have something like this though.
love,
mom

 

this year me and my mother donated our very expensive, fully lighted, fake tree to a charity raffle. mostly because putting it up is so damn difficult, and its a little to big for our modest home.

so the choice was between no tree, or a real tree(cut). i decided, as a future farmer, that i would opt for a real tree, so i could support the tree farming industry. Ive always like real trees better anyway.

once the tree dies, i am going to compost the foliage, and chop the trunk up for future fire wood.

 

I like that forest thinning idea much better than the tree farm idea, sounds like a good program. But it'd be a hard one to supervise. I don't want a cut tree in my house though, the whole idea just seems so wasteful, and it's sitting there dying. Living trees are nice (in pots perhaps) or decorating trees in the yard...

Do what ya want on your holiday, but I'm just a tree-hugger so I like either fake or living & potted, then planted.

 

That's exactly why I decided to get a potted tree! I can't stand the thought of just cutting a tree down then throwing it away in a few weeks. Like I said before, I plan on repotting it and using it for a few years and then planting it when we get a house of our own.

I think that's a great idea with the fire mitigation, at least then there is more of a purpose of cutting them down other than to have a pretty decoration for a few weeks.

 

i have a fake tree, and i will always have one. it depresses me to see a giant beutiful thing die in front of me, as corny as that sounds. and its recycling. i like drumminmamas idea tho about taking the branches and putting them in a styrafoam cone!

 

i feel the same way.
in the "save the tree" thread in the "young hippies" forum, was a picture of a beautiful tree, that was to be cut down. some thought the tree was so beautiful that they wanted to sleep in the tree, to keep it from death. i continuously thought, what makes this tree better, or more worthy to "save" than any other tree? ...beauty? ...age? ...location? it really made me think.

i cant say i really support the cutting of "natural" trees for sprawl, or industry, although i do believe there are useful purposes of natural trees.
i do support tree farming. as i do with most all farming, especially organic.

i had a cut, farmed tree this year.... i also ate lettuce today... they both "died" for me, but i don't feel bad for either of them. they where both grown specifically for a one time use, unlike a fruit plant/tree. another will be replanted, to replace the one that i used.

though i think it sucks that so many dead Christmas tree end up in a land fill.... thats not a place for organic material that could be put to good use. i know that some towns collect peoples trees, and sell them to mulching companies for a profit. my town doesn't.... ours go to the landfill. mine personally, is used for my garden compost, like all my organic scraps, and for firewood.

 

great idea!
....i wish i could do that. but i have neither the time nor the money.

 

i have a white tree i bought my first christmas me and my hubby moved in together..it came with beautiful pink purple and baby blue lights on it, and its covered in care bears(mine) and wrestling superstars and elvis(hubbys)..lol...