I have just come back from visiting my aunt and she showed me a christmas tree in her garden.
The tree started life 13 years ago as a present that I bought for my late grandmas last christmas... it started out about 7 inch tall in a 5 inch pot covered in white artificial snow and red baubles
It is now about 8 feet tall and looks wonderful... very sentimental I know but it brought a lump to my throat. :'(
I have a tree in a pot in the garden that I took into the nursery where I work and the children helped to decorate... alot of the parents commented on how lovely it was to see a real tree rather than an artificial one.
Does anybody else have a tale to tell about christmas trees ;)
Only that ours came from Woolies in Southend!
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Is this a large enough Christmas tree? It's just behind the Eucalyptus tree. to the right and appears above my neighbour's bungalow!
Can't remember how many years ago I planted it.
Wouldn't like to put the fairy on top of that one :o ;)
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Well we bought an Abies Koreanii  Korean fir tree many years ago as a Bonsai tree. As usual, it was left to carry on growing and it is now blooming enormous out in our garden, about 15ft tall and is beautiful.  It has been home to many nests and we decorate it with fairy lights at christmas time.
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I had better not give OH ideas about lights or even a fairy on top of the tree. He likes to decorate nearly every other tree at Christmas! ;D
Years ago we had a fir tree in our garden from Keilder Forest which started off just a tiny tot and we used to dig it up every year for Christmas (we were very poor in those days) and put it in a big pot with soil in to be placed in our sitting room.  After Christmas back it used to go into the ground,with the odd bit of tinsel still hanging off it. The trouble with doing that, was that although the tree seemed to survive okay, having disturbed the roots, it grew in a very topsy turvy way, first sloping one way and then the next.Â
It grew quite tall, in a funny tilted fashion, and we were sorry to have to leave it in the garden when we eventually moved as it really served us well. I often wonder if it is still growing there. Talking about Christmas I have just been into Whitley Bay and the card shop in the shopping mall has it's Christmas cards already on display. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them. :) busy_lizzie
That reminds me BL, I nicked a sapling fir tree from Kielder Forest last year and it is still heeled in somewhere in the garden. It hadnt died the last time I looked.
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Ahh!! :D Like to think ours is too Carol, with perhaps a tiny bit of glitter still somewhere on it, to remember Christmas pasts. busy_lizzie
OOOOOO :o Carol you naughty wee scot you. ;)