Where Will Your Christmas Tree End Up...

[BloomingMarvellous]

It's that time of year when everyone goes out to pick Christmas Tree's and you watch smiley excited people choosing the perfect Christmas tree for their perfect Christmas, how Jolly nice... Then Christmas Is over and the beginning of the Christmas Tree Dumping Is upon us, they turn up everywhere even though Councils have introduced disposal area's. How people change, I've even seen fully decorated Christmas tree's dumped in the middle of nowhere...

[svenrufus]

Mine's going to end up in the loft - the first time we have had a tree, as I can't really be bothered with the whole thing on my own account, but now the Little Girl is here, she will enjoy it, so that's that. We went for a tinsel tree, as it is done for all time and no more shopping trips needed, and despite being fake, I reckon that with a number of years use, it is possibly cost neutral in environmental terms compared with wasted land, chemicals used, fuel used in felling and transport etc. for a 'real' tree. If I had a garden I would have got a tree in a pot (maybe a yew), which I could put outside each year and get in again for the week or two over chistmas itself.

It is good that councils now offer tree recycling, but like you I have seen some extraordinary stuff after christmas - I saw a plastic tree dumped in with the trees in the disposal points, really missing the point, by a mile!

[kiltoncomp]

saw a poster on the back of a council van today that said ,
recycle your christmas tree and we will plant a tree in sherwood forest in your name,
nice incentive, hope it works

[Kayleigh]

Mine will end up in the attic like last year and the year before and the year before that..

[Phoebe]

If it sees daylight this year mine will be back in the cupboard!

[Hedge Witch]

Back in the attic for us.

Great big artificial thing , takes forever getting it to look mediocre , have to take it down by the 6th or you get bad luck for the rest of the year , takes ages to untangle the whole lot at the end .

Why oh why do we bother.

I want a lovely room decorated like in Country Life.

[Paul mabbott]

There was a thread to this effect last year and probably the year before and....
Never mind. Personally, I've never been convinced of the need for an Xmas tree although I enjoyed decorating one as a lad. I do think that there is tendency to say, 'the bigger the better' and join in with conventional view of an American christmas ....
I've said this before, but if it encourages people to go small scale (and cheap), we dig up yew trees at about 50 cms, pot them up and pot them on, using appropriate ones for the decorative tree. When they're about 1m high is the best time to use them (on a table). When they've grown to big, we plant them out in the wood that they came from - or in bed in a local park!
I must stress that I have nothing to do with this whole thing other than tending the plants - I've not lost one yet!
Otherwise, bah, humbug!

[smartie]

Don't do tree - we decorate the house on Christmas Eve with holly from a friend's garden and ivy from ours, some sprays of greenery from the hedge and some candles, then after new year all the green stuff goes on the compost heap.

This year I'm going to try to make some Christmas wreaths from willow withies we've harvested from the garden and bits of the conifer hedge. Not sure how I'll get on - I suspect it looks easier than it is

[Highland Damsel]

This year I'm going to try to make some Christmas wreaths from willow withies we've harvested from the garden and bits of the conifer hedge. Not sure how I'll get on - I suspect it looks easier than it is [/quote]

The whole wreath thing isn't bad at all i'v made them for the last couple of years for work, if you are using moss make sure it's not frozen or it just doesn't hold together well. As for xmas trees i usually nab a 3-4 ft one sided sitka spruce or lodgepole pine from the roadside for the coffee table in my tiny house. They are both non native and will eventually cost a fortune to get rid of for the council (still hide when a car comes though)

[Ruth Daniel]

Mine will end up back in the loft......when it eventually gets taken out of the loft! lol!