Silhouette
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Well I don't need to quote the statistics on the millions of trees that unnecessarily meet their end this time of year. I highly doubt everyone makes it out on Arbor Day to plant a new one.
This problem had bothered me for years. I'm one of those evergreen addicts that has to have the smell of fresh fir or pine boughs that comes with a real, actual murdered sapling. Then one year in poverty, we decided instead just to trim a lower branch of a fir. Lo and behold it was beautiful. They still grow in the classic cone shape of a tree, but are pretty much 2-dimensional. This does well for cramped spaces because you can set this upright branch right up next to a wall and you don't have to trip over it or have it take up space where a chair or couch once was.
So, you can have your christmas tree and not kill. I hope this can become a new trend because we need all the trees we can get right about now. So if you haven't bought a tree, don't. Just trim one up in a forest near you. The benefit to a future logger would be clearer grain since when you delimb a tree down low on its skirt, this makes less knots. Win-win.
This problem had bothered me for years. I'm one of those evergreen addicts that has to have the smell of fresh fir or pine boughs that comes with a real, actual murdered sapling. Then one year in poverty, we decided instead just to trim a lower branch of a fir. Lo and behold it was beautiful. They still grow in the classic cone shape of a tree, but are pretty much 2-dimensional. This does well for cramped spaces because you can set this upright branch right up next to a wall and you don't have to trip over it or have it take up space where a chair or couch once was.
So, you can have your christmas tree and not kill. I hope this can become a new trend because we need all the trees we can get right about now. So if you haven't bought a tree, don't. Just trim one up in a forest near you. The benefit to a future logger would be clearer grain since when you delimb a tree down low on its skirt, this makes less knots. Win-win.