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| "Building a better Christmas tree" "Rows of trees grow on Bell's Christmas Tree Farm in Accord, N.Y. "There are so many small things that people would never think of that make a big difference," Gordon Bell said. "How they're trimmed, the spacing, the origin of the seed, the amount of time, the upkeep to get them to be a salable tree." The rest of the article can be found at the link below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Bulletin (Bend, Oreon News)
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| They're best if they're not trimmed at all. Trimming wrecks the symmmetry of the branches. Resin |
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- Posted by IshCountryGal 8 WA (My Page) on Mon, Dec 10, 12 at 23:50
| I'm with Resin in preferring natural tree shapes to sheared ones. I've picked trees with somewhat crooked trunks over ones with strait ones. I want to hang ornaments from limbs, not plaster them on the surface of a green cone. Yesterday, we wandered through a bone-chilling rain to find this year's noble fir (Abies procera) at a Christmas tree farm. The owner said that one customer claimed their family left up a Nordmann fir (Abies nordmanniana) for 6 months without needle drop. Possible? -m |
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| "The owner said that one customer claimed their family left up a Nordmann fir (Abies nordmanniana) for 6 months without needle drop. Possible?" With a degree of truth, yes. Fir foliage retains a lot of its needles when it dries out, though not all - they would have had some needle drop, but also quite a lot of dry foliage still on the branches at the end. Wouldn't have looked very attractive, though. Resin |
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