Oh Christmas Tree

Not sure if this is the right area/section for such, but am looking for ideas of where to shop, both online and off, for quality artificial Christmas trees. If offline, UK-wide merchants would probably work best, as we live in a relatively remote area. Thanks in advance for any responses!

Last year we got our tree from Tesco. We only paid about £20 for it but it was a decent tree for the amount we spent. Other places we looked at were B&Q, Argos, and ASDA. All of which had a pretty decent selection of tress in all price ranges. From £20 up into triple digits price tags. You can spend as much or as little as you want but I think our 20 quid tree is great. Once it is decorated with lights and ornaments you would think it cost us much more then that.

If you don't have alot of room...like we don't we bought a really nice skinny pre-lit tree from B&Q last year and it worked a treat..I have always been a "it had to be real" person but I just burned some Balsam and Cedar Yankee Candles and it worked like a charm!

If you don't have alot of room...like we don't we bought a really nice skinny pre-lit tree from B&Q last year and it worked a treat..I have always been a "it had to be real" person but I just burned some Balsam and Cedar Yankee Candles and it worked like a charm!

That will be me this year - we don't have room for a real tree - heck I am not sure the one in the loft will fit now but I will make it!

Check out Balsam Hill Christmas Tree Company at www.balsamhill.com.  They are an American company that is testing the UK market this year.  I don't know if the plugs on the prelit trees work in the UK.  They have one or two varieties without lights. You can ask.  These artificial trees are top notch.

... Thank you all again for the replies; very much appreciated!

John Lewis!
http://www.johnlewis.com/Christmas/Christmas+Trees/Christmas+Trees/Christmas+Trees/1310/ProductCategory.aspx

we ordered one of these last year:
http://www.xmasdirect.co.uk/christmas-trees/artificial-christmas-trees/traditional-trees/artificial-fraser-fir-tree

dh is really against fake trees and he was actually happy with the way this one looked.

I believe ours was from Argos, we've had it a couple years and still looks nice.

I found loads of fake trees. They have them everywhere...Tesco, Argos, ASDA, B&Q, Wilkinson's, etc.

Anyone know where I can get a real tree? I am against fake ones. It doesn't need to be a huge real one, but is there somewhere (like a tree farm?) you can go to cut your own down near London/Surrey/Berks/Bucks?

Two years ago we got a small, real tree that was planted in a bucket from Wilkinsons. It was scrawny, and a mess, and sort of died after two weeks even when we tried to plant it outside afterwards.

Katylux - I'm way up north so I can't advise on London specifically, but up here pretty much every garden center has real trees.  I had a scrawny potted one last year from B&Q that died, too.  I haven't seen any cut your own tree places, though.  Our weekly farmer's market has a lot of real trees, too.

I'm with you KatyLux, mostly because I spent the first half of my childhood living on a christmas tree farm!

I haven't seen any cut your own farms. My DH says he doesn't know anyone who's even been to one and he grew up just north of London. There are some farms you can go and pick an already cut tree. A google search got me this: http://www.christmastreefarm.co.uk/

We ended up getting one from the local garden centre  
My husband insisted on getting a potted one because "We can replant it (on property we don't have) and its eco-friendly". This after I explained to him that the roots on a tree are just as big as the tree, and they just chop them all off to fit in the tiny bucket so it can never survive being replanted

I got my live tree from a local garden centre. It's a wee tree- but it's live-it's about 3 feet tall and very symmetrical and cute.    J couldn't actually believe it was real, because it's really symmetrical.  I've had it near a week and there's no needle drop at all. Keeping the water topped up, away from heat.
I do like real trees, my first ever Christmas tree I've ever put up!,  and I don't have any room to store a fake one.  I made all the ornaments out of salt dough. Think I need a few borax ornaments though to make it sparkle. 

The same garden centre had loads of fake trees about. Plus tons of other places, like others have said, have nice looking fake trees.

I absolutely have to have a real tree every year, too. I suppose it comes from growing up absolutely surrounded by Christmas tree farms back in PA!

We had ours delivered for a couple years, but now we have a car, we get ours from B&Q, Tesco, wherever. I've not noticed a difference in quality vs the cut tress back in the states - they stay alive just as long and have the same amount of needle drop per species, but the prices are way, way higher (as you'd expect for buying in a big city!).

My husband got ours on Sunday and he put it up in the tree stand with water and sugar, but I've been too sick to decorate it yet. Right now the cat just thinks we brought it inside for him to sniff.

I got mine from  http://www.pinesandneedles.com/

Picked it up from the Ealing branch (they have several outlets and also deliver), it's lovely about 3ft and it's a potted Norway Spruce rather than cut, no needle drop and I'm going to plant it in the garden after xmas. It looks really health and is super cute.

There's been no needle drop to speak off and it smells amazing. I love it to bits!