Christmas trees...what colour?

We have a fibre optic one that looks nothing when not lit, but lovely when it`s lit up. It`s sort of off white/beigy coloured bin liner type material, I ordered it online, and hated it on sight, but it looks lovely when we plug it in. Hubby couldn`t wait to be rid of all the baubles and the job of sorting the lights out each year.

I have just bought a new artificial tree, a slender green one. I decorate the tree with white lights and baubles in two different colours, the angel is china with a silk dress and has topped the tree for the last twenty years. DH puts the lights on the tree and I do all the rest.

Used to have two, one real for the living room, the other artificial in the dining room window. Both very traditional. Since downsizing we tried traditional but it just didn't work. Now our tree is modern, white, simple and pre-lit. It is in our conservatory, only needs 10 (large) baubles and takes minutes instead of half a day to install. It looks stunning reflecting from the glass. The sitting room is decorated in a cosy, traditional way with items (mostly German in origin) that are precious and hold many family memories. Our white tree is making new memories for us all.

Has to be real. I have three in pots on the patio. The tallest 3 1/2 feet and the smallest a foot. All have been potted on at some point. I have had the biggest 4 years. They come in for a week over Christmas. I have collected very small decorations over the years and they always look pretty.

Green and most definitely real! I'm a proper traditionalist where Christmas is concerned. We have white & silver decorations & little white lights - beautiful!

Just bought a new tree. Waiting delivery.
I have bought a Tesco plain green tree and separate led coloured lights. I have spent some of my Tesco club vouchers so paid nothing in cash.
The tree is 5ft. Will be decorated in a mixture of things collected over the years and some are homemade.
I have also bought a electric train to run around the bottom.

Black. Never known a better-coloured tree for showing up the brilliant colours of the decorations. Green ones (real or not) just don't compete. I did see a gorgeous white one in a front garden once - that was beautifully decorated with pastel lights. Turned out they got it on one of their trips to America. So I'll stick with my lovely black one.

We have a oldish slender green tree that fits well in limited space, but it is shedding its (plastic) leaves!

I saw an idea someone else has mentioned, in a craft centre. A branch of silver birch, about 5 foot high, the bottom was in a small Christmas hessian sack, presumably anchored with quick drying cement? It looked so pretty with a bit of silver spray, and a few baubles, and didn't take up too much space.

When we lived in the old family home we had traditional green tree's in the two bays and one in the hallway,they have been replaced by a half wall tree which we have on the wall in our lounge as we only have a smaller apartment it looks good but there is no contest between it and the real tree's we used to have,best part of the wall tree is that Oliver can't be tempted to climb up it.

For years I always had a traditional green then the first Christmas I found myself living without my ex husband I decided to branch out I bought a white one that I hang baubles of every colour nothing matches coloured lights no more plain white and I feel quite a rebel

Green and real, over the top with baubles and garlands, not silver or blue. Our decorations collected over decades and full of associations.

would love to have a real tree but unfortunately the only place where a tree will go is right in front of a radiator.
so artificial it has to be - but it's quite a realistic one.
trimmings are red and gold - although the chocolate tree decorations add a bit of colour to it.
my daughter gets the lights on the tree and then the grandaughters put the decorations on. i'm the one who sits there and hands everything to them.
it'll go up the weekend after 5 december - my daughter's birthday is then and we'll have to leave enough time for her cards to be displayed before getting all the christmassy bits and bobs out.

Always a real tree but the sort that dont drop needles tgese days (mire expensive im afraid). I too have an assortment of baubles collected over the years but try to use only red & gold plus red beads and some german wooden decorations. Then i ruin it by hanging chocolate ornaments on it for the grandchildren to have at New Year!

Plus white lights of course. The old coloured ones are used in the front window now, tree in room at back.

7ft Black tree with fibre optic lights. Plus several smaller tinsel trees dotted about the house.

Always a real one, at least seven foot, and covered in all the decorations we've gathered over the years, plus lots of lights, white and coloured. Plenty of jingly things and an angel in red velvet on the top. We haven't a big front room, so it's very much a focal point, whether we have to squeeze past it by the stairs door or it blocks out half the window on the opposite wall. DH lobbies every year for a smaller, table top one, but I wouldn't have it any other way. And the beautiful Christmas smell....!

When the DGC are all with us for Christmas (alternate years, and sadly not this one ), we have another small tree at the top of the stairs, again real. We do have a fibre optic one in the kitchen, but nothing beats the real thing.

DH always goes out on a holly and ivy hunt too, and we have lots of it round the house. So beautiful if it's a year for lots of berries. Downtown Abbey, eat your heart out!

As I now live in a flat, I have a smallish black tree. This year it will be decorated with palest pink baubles and grey/sparkle butterflies as my 5 year old GD loves them. She also loves unicorns and I've also bought a couple of unicorn ornaments but these were too expensive to have more. My daughters split all the old & loved ornaments from their childhood between them so they now have them on their trees

Always a real tree which we can now take out of our wood. I love the smell of pine and put up with dropping needles. However when I lived in England I always got a Scots pine from the rangers on Ashdown Forest, much cheaper than the shops and they don't drop.

Only use silver, gold, red, green and white on it, but I do put garlands on the big beam mantle pieces, one is silver and blue on the dining room and gold with purple in the salon. I also have branches around with various decorations. I love the house all dressed upfor Christmas, it drivers OH mad! He wants to take it all down on New Years Day, but I usually manage to keep it up until Epiphany. Then everywhere looks so denuded!

love a real tree especially fr the smell, but they are so expensive.
We inherited a fake one, green, and it will do. I charge the GS and his granddad to do the decorations as late as possible so, quite honestly, i don't really care.
Stays up until Epiphany.

A real one which goes up about 13th of December. Part of the fun is going to choose it, and my now nearly 4 year old Grandson helping out it up.
Lots of white decorations and pure white lights make it look stunning.

Aren't we all different? As my Grandma used to say 'it wouldn't do if we were all the same' Enjoyed reading all the posts.

We used to have a real tree when we were in our large house, lovely bay window in large lounge, it was the begining of Christmas for us, choosing the tree. As family left home we bought a large artificial one in a sale after Christmas (quite a large one)

When we down-sized we bought a tall, slender tree from M & S which is lovely. Last year (1st in my new home) I actually put the tree up on the 1st week of December (always used to be around or after 19th as that was Step-Daughter's Birthday) as every-one on the Park puts their decorations up early

This year tree will go up next weekend as I'm paying a visit to DM
& will still have lots to do when I get home again, no colour scheme just what I fancy out of my bauble collection, I love unusual baubles & will be hunting in the sales

Green trees. Not real but very nice.
All gold decorations in sitting room & silver & purple in hall. Fibre optic in study window. I make a wreath for front door with foliage from garden.
But nothing before 7 days before 25th & it stays put until 12th night.

Only ever a real tree here, and decorated with things in all sorts of colours that we've mostly had for ages, inc. some from my childhood.

I had a friend who would buy a whole new set of decorations in a different colour each year - blue, silver purple, etc. Quite apart from the money, I did wonder where on earth I'd put them all, if I did that.

She did ask me once what colour tree I was having this year.
'Er, green.'

Green & living. Our tree-in-a-pot is called Eric. (As I mentioned a while ago, on another thread.) Can't beat a live tree. Just hope he'll make it through another year!