Christmas Trees

White PinePinus strobus• Plant type: Evergreen Tree • USDA Hardiness Zones: 3b to 7a • Height: 50 to 75 ft.Spread: 25 to 35ft. • Exposure: partial shade to full sun

– Optimum growth in full sun• Leaf Color: Blue, Green • Growth Rate: average • Soil/Moisture: Any moist, well-drained soil• Form: Oval, Pyramidal • Landscape Uses: Christmas tree, Aggressive surface roots

possible, Screen, Superior hedge• Meticulous shearing necessary to form marketable Christmas

tree

White Pine

• Advantages– Nice shape– Good needle retention– Locally grown

• Disadvantages– No aroma– Can’t hold heavy

ornaments

Fraser Fir• Plant type: EvergreenTree • USDA Hardiness Zones: 4a to 7a • Height: 30 to 50’ Spread: 15 to 20’ • Exposure: partial shade to full sun – Best for growth - full sun

• Growth Rate: slow • Form: Pyramidal

• Landscape Uses: Christmas tree, Screen, Specimen • Most popular species of Christmas tree in US• Best natural form

Fraser Fir

• Advantages– Lovely Form– Nice scent

• Disadvantages– More expensive

Blue SprucePicea pungens• Plant type: Evergreen Tree • USDA Hardiness Zones: 3a to 7b • Height: 35 – 60 ft, Spread: 15 – 25 ft • Exposure: partial shade to full sun

As a Christmas Tree needs full sun • Leaf Color: Blue, Silvery • Growth Rate: average • Form: Columnar, Pyramidal• Uses: Specimen, windbreak• Very prickly when used as a Christmas tree

Blue Spruce

• Advantages– This Christmas Tree has

good symmetrical form– Attractive blue foliage– Good needle retention.

• Disadvantages– Very prickly– Blue color

Scotch Pine• Plant type: Evergreen Tree • USDA Hardiness Zones: 3a to 7a • Height: 45 to 60ft Spread: 25 to 35 ft • Exposure: full sun • Leaf Color: Green • Growth Rate: slow • Form: Oval, Pyramidal • Landscape Uses: Christmas tree, Specimen • Has excellent needle retention and good keepability. It resists

drying and if permitted to become dry does not drop its needles

• Very prickly

Scotch Pine

• Advantages– Needles don’t fall off if

tree dries out

• Disadvantages– Very prickly

Shearing trees

• Video – old fashioned way

• Video - Mechanized

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