Your Christmas tree - Real or Artifical?

[Bry Nylon]

Well?
Real all the way here

 

[dougdeep]

Fake.

 

[philsussex]

Fake.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Artificial.

A sham of a business - growing a tree, nurturing it and then chopping it down and letting it die over a period of 12-20 days. Unless of course, one buys one with roots and recycles it every year.

 

[Beach Hut]

Real but in moderation this year as two kittens arrived on Friday.

 

[brakespear]

Fake and pretty crappy-looking too

 

[pasty]

Real.

 

[tedebear]

I'm with BoF of this one, I can't understand why we grow and chop down to kill every year all these trees...there must be fields somewhere which could be put to better use or returned to nature...

Sadly I get outvoted and Zef buys a real one each year, but it makes me sad buying a real tree, which is slowly dying in front of me....

 

[Taybha]

dont have 1 its november , and always unplug your death trap fairy lights before you go to sleep viewers

 

[Taybha]

just watched countryfile and theres a guy buying trees from belguim potted with roots, he dosnt sell them he hires them out,the customer then returns said tree after usage and the tree then grows trapping lots of lovely carbon for another year and for years to come and gets to spend lots of christmases snug and warm

 

[Bry Nylon]

dont have 1 its november , and always unplug your death trap fairy lights before you go to sleep viewers

Well, obviously don't have a tree up yet.
The final week before Christmas is the time to put up the tree

 

[Meade's Ball]

Real but in moderation this year as two kittens arrived on Friday.

Fake or real kittens?

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Real. I think I'm right in saying that fast growing young trees provide the best CO2 exchange, so doing my bit for the environment.

 

[LABHA]

My christmas tree this year will be a Palm tree,going to the Carribean for christmas and new year ; )

 

[pasty]

just watched countryfile and theres a guy buying trees from belguim potted with roots, he dosnt sell them he hires them out,the customer then returns said tree after usage and the tree then grows trapping lots of lovely carbon for another year and for years to come and gets to spend lots of christmases snug and warm

We just caught that as well. Might look into it. You can actually tag your tree and have the same one back every year.

 

[Was not Was]

fast growing young trees provide the best CO2 exchange

True that. But once you factor in all the emissions chopping 'em down and getting 'em to you, and the Council collecting most of 'em for woodchip/composting, I'm not sure that it's really ...

doing my bit for the environment.

 

[1066gull]

I'm with BoF of this one, I can't understand why we grow and chop down to kill every year all these trees...there must be fields somewhere which could be put to better use or returned to nature...

Sadly I get outvoted and Zef buys a real one each year, but it makes me sad buying a real tree, which is slowly dying in front of me....

Can you and BoF just expand what you mean by returning to nature?

Do you mean, let all the fields grow out of control and return to waste shrub land? I'm not having a go at you alone, but the majority of the people in this country are becoming disconnected from rural England.

Ask yourself, what makes the British countryside? It's not the 'let it return to nature', its the farming, the roaming of livestock that tenders the fields and gives the countryside its rich green natural beauty. Farming has been a lifestyle to this country, its not a chore to the people who enjoy it, its their livelihood. Without them, the British countryside would not be its beauty it currently is.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

True that. But once you factor in all the emissions chopping 'em down and getting 'em to you, and the Council collecting most of 'em for woodchip/composting, I'm not sure that it's really ...

True. But it's the kind of half baked logic I often use to justify my actions and make me feel good about myself.

 

[1066gull]

Not to mention the amount of jobs being lost as people go for the 'cheaper, cleaner' option.

If everyone got there heating from sustainable logging (as in cutting down woood without killing trees), not only will it create jobs its a much more viable (and slightly cleaner but not completely) solution to energy consumption.

 

[dougdeep]

Drag it out of the spare room and plug it in. Job done.