Living Christmas trees? A great idea that is catching on.
Tue, 2010-12-07 23:14
#1
lonewolfbunn
Living Christmas trees? A great idea that is catching on.
Tue, 2010-12-07 23:16
#2
lonewolfbunn
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2010/12/07/16454266.html
Christmas tree rentals growing in popularity
By Andrew McIntosh, QMI Agency
"SEATTLE, Wash. - Environmentally conscious residents of the Pacific Northwest have embraced a new trend to cut waste and make the holidays greener: they're renting live, potted Christmas trees.
Instead of buying a freshly cut tree from a lot this month and then zapping it into wood chips or mulch in January, an increasing number of residents of Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, Ore. - the northwest's three largest cities - have started renting fir, spruce, balsam and even cedar trees from companies or environmental groups.
...Families and businesses pay a fee between $20 to $100 to enjoy and decorate an evergreen of their choice. Separate refundable deposits are also collected. Some can be ordered online.
When the holidays end, tree renters simply return their potted friend to the group they rented it from. The trees are then replanted at a nursery or as part of habitat restoration projects at a variety of locations, ranging from parks, rivers and streams to schools or even churches.
Two Vancouver companies both offer tree rentals.
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Tree rentals are not entirely new; The Original Living Christmas Tree Company has rented them in Portland since 1992."
Tue, 2010-12-07 23:27
#3
That is a great idea.
On the other hand, not all tree-killing is bad. I have no problem taking a tree from the bush so long as it is one of a group that is growing close together. It helps by making room for the remaining one to grow.
Wed, 2010-12-08 14:38
#4
Snert
[url=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/12/08/16469721.html]Another living Christmas tree[/url]
Two metres! Ho ho ho indeed!
Wed, 2010-12-08 14:44
#5
I have a serious ethical issue with the kidnapping of innocent trees to be paraded, as mere "ornaments", in some human fertility rite or whatever it is. It was almost more humane when they euthanized them beforehand.
Wed, 2010-12-08 15:03
#6
I have a serious ethical issue with the kidnapping of innocent trees to be paraded, as mere "ornaments", in some human fertility rite or whatever it is. It was almost more humane when they euthanized them beforehand.
It's ancestor worship, actually (in its early forms, anyway).
Evergreen trees are where spirits of the departed lived through the winter.
Well hopefully you don't have a problem with landscaping.
Wed, 2010-12-08 15:19
#7
Well hopefully you don't have a problem with landscaping.
No problem at all, quite the contrary. I would even help the land scape if it was being chased by the treenappers!
Wed, 2010-12-08 15:49
#8
In the olden days, when we celebrated X's alleged birthday, i had a potted Norfolk pine for 6 years. It tolerated indoor living quite well, just so it had enough light. It couldn't take heavy ornaments and i only wound one strand of lights up the trunk, and it looked very pretty with small baubles and tinsel on. It grew to about 1.5 m (died of criminal negligence).
One year, i gave friends and relatives baby spruces that i lifted from our bush into flowerpots in September and kept outdoors through the fall. After the feasting season, they'd winter in a cold porch or sheltered outdoor spot, and be planted in the yards, come spring.