Christmas Trees: Where to Get Them
When I was young, my folks, siblings and I would drudge across town to the Christmas tree farm owned by family friends, pick the tallest tree in the lot, and then saw it to the ground.
It was a ritual we repeated every year, no matter how far away each of us lived. The group dwindled year by year, to the point where it’s my parents and one brother who will head this year to Schaeffer’s Farm, drop onto the frozen lot, and raze a Douglas fir, or white spruce. They’ll call, or send a picture of the tree, and when I get home on Dec. 21, we’ll probably all decorate it together, like when we were kids.
Which brings me to my point. I gotta have a tree. I don’t need to cut it down, but it needs to be real. I’d ideally like to support a local fire station, church, or otherwise small business. Comments are open; tell me where to go.
If you want to repeat the cut-your-own experience, there are several tree farms out near Canton. You can stop at the Dairy Palace on your way out there for a burger and shake to provide you fuel for the sawing.
Nicholson-Hardie on Lovers, just west of Inwood, south side.
Local family business.
And they deliver and set up as well.
Good thing you don’t need to cut your own:
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/national/south/
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I go to Sandone’s behind Keller’s on NW Hwy. They are really friendly and I found a beautiful blue spruce last year at a great price. (I have several heavy ornaments and you need a strong tree if you do, too.) The tree was sitting in water, unlike a lot of trees around town. The guys cut it for me, put it in my stand from home & trimmed the bottom branches accordingly (and evenly). They used two men to make sure it was straight from all angles before tightening it in the stand. I didn’t have to do anything other than bring it in the house. They wrapped it up with cord, put it in my car & sent me on my way. It was the easiest Christmas tree experience of my life and my tree lasted so much longer than my trees from other places. I like that it’s a locally, family owned place, too. I didn’t get my tree until the early side of mid-December last year and most places seemed to picked over & have needles falling by the fistful.
http://www.sandonechristmastrees.com/
From a local garden center on Greenville Ave. Calloway’s Nursery