SCOTS PINE CHRISTMAS TREES

 

Everyone has their favorite type of tree but it would seem that a Scots Pine Christmas tree is considered the most traditional. The best selling variety of Pine Christmas Tree over the Christmas period is the Scots Pine Christmas tree which comprises about 40% of the Christmas tree market.

The Scots Pine Christmas tree is a native of the once extensive Caledonian pine forests, and with its characteristic craggy bark, pink in colour at the top of the tree, still graces Highland lochs and mountains. Scots Pine Christmas trees are fast-growing, some of them reaching 30 metres and the Scots Pine Christmas Tree will most likely have been grown on poor sandy soil.

As a Christmas tree, the Scots Pine Christmas tree's calling card is its dark green foliage and stiff branches. These are excellent for decorating with both light and heavy ornaments. The Scots Pine Christmas tree has great needle retention characteristics and weathers well throughout harvest, shipping and display.

The Scots pine Christmas tree does not dry out too quickly and if it does become dry, it does not drop its needles. When placed in a water filled container it will remain fresh over the Christmas season. Like all natural trees, the Scots pine Christmas tree is readily recyclable and has many different uses when the Christmas season is over.

The needles of the Scots Pine Christmas tree grow in bundles of two. They vary in length, from just over 1" to almost 3", depending on the tree. The color of the Scots pine Christmas tree can also vary from tree to tree from bright green to dark green to bluish tones.

Cones nearest the branch tips of Scots Pine Christmas trees were fertilised in the previous spring; cones below the branch tips of Scots Pine Christmas trees are two years old and still maturing whilst the lowest cones are three years old and ripe.

The seeds for Scots pine Christmas trees are usually sown in the spring and allowed to grow for two years in the nursery bed before they are lifted and sold to Christmas tree producers. The immature fully branched narrow outline of the Scots Pine Christmas tree alters as the maturing tree loses its lower branches and forms a flatter spreading crown.

Scots Pine Christmas Trees also grow right across northern Europe, Asia, America and Canada.

Pine was once known as the 'Sweetest of the Woods' and was said to symbolise fertility.

So go for a Scots Pine Christmas tree this Christmas !