Good Care Guide for Christmas Trees

Needle Rating & Tree Suitability

A Guide to help prevent needle drop:

• Buy one of the varieties known for good needle retention if you are going to take the tree inside.

• When you get home cut about 1” off the base of the tree (this allows water to flow up the tree)

• Store in an unheated area and in a bucket of water for as long as possible.

• And when you bring it inside – keep watering it !

     Excellent needle retention

    Good needle retention

   Cut tree requires regular watering

  Outdoor or potted

 Outdoor tree only

Large Christmas Trees are also available:

Norway Spruce, Douglas Fir and Corsican Pine species are available in larger sizes

Large Christmas trees can be delivered in the Retford and Bawtry area and collected after Twelfth Night - for a small fee. (When the Christmas trees are collected we take them on to chipping and recycling as garden mulch, or possibly as a boiler fuel – all very green!)

Lodgepole Pine :

(In latin ‘pinus contorta’)

Long needles, open foliage which shows off decorations to a good advantage and holds needles well.

Needle Rating

Corsican Pine :

Similar to the Lodgepole, will hold its long needles well.

Large Trees Available

Needle Rating

Norway Spruce:

The Traditional Christmas tree, short quite sharp needles that will drop off before the other species’.

Large Trees Available

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Nordman Fir:

Hold needles very well, needles striped on underside, very difficult to tell apart from Noble Fir, though has a slightly more open foliage.

Needle Rating

Noble Fir:

The king of Christmas trees, excellent needle retention. Needles striped on underside and bent similar to a hockey stick (this is the easy way to tell the difference from a Nordman Fir).

Needle Rating