Christmas trees...what colour?

Well, as indicate upthread, we now have a new tree, and it is green, and it is huge. It will just about clear the ceiling and take up far more floor space than the old one. The fairy will have a crick in her neck as she will not clear the ceiling. This is what comes of letting DH out on his own. I am trying to be patient but, to quote the Duke of Wellington, it will be "a damn close run thing"!

Since our little grandsons arrived I have had an artifical green one. Less heavy if it falls on them. I have managed to get this tree in a sort of "cage" to keep the little ones out of it.

Once toddler DGS2 gets old enough (also 20mnths) not to pull it on himself or such like I will go back to a proper one.
I would never have a black one. It makes me think someone is holding a black mass.
My trees always have our collection of old traditional decorations we have had since they were small. with some changes.

I have really enjoyed reading about everyone's trees and how different we all are.
I like to see and smell the real trees and appreciate those which some of our friends put up. Personally we just don't want to have the mess to clear away.
We have had our green artificial tree for about 40 years and when we bought it we thought it was hideously expensive even though it was in a sale. It looks so realistic and the shaping is so good that it is not obvious that it is artificial. We have certainly had our money's worth out of it as it still looks really good. We have a vast selection of entirely random baubles, some inherited, some special buys and, most precious of all, some made by DC when they were small.
We are not putting up decorations this year since we will not be home until well after Twelfth Night.

I gave up on a real tree?some years ago when I was faced with an army of ants crawling all over the carpet one morning ??? they were nesting in the pot .... yuk!!

For all who like Christmas trees and cats, check out Simon's Cat on youtube, the Christmas one.Years ago, when we had real Christmas trees, one of our cats did a demolition job on it much like this cartoon.Hilarious......as long as it isn't your cat or lovingly decorated tree!

Love that story DaphneBroon.
Its nice to hear that everyone is different and like different kinds of trees. I see this year you can get bronzey/coppery coloured ones, haven't seen those before.

A small real tree on a high up table so that 20 month old GD does not deconstruct it. It will not be very stylish but all the decorations will mean something to us.

My German mother's first Christmas in Scotland was 1947 and honestly I don't think anybody in their wee town had ever had a Christmas tree so one night she and my dad went out into the vast areas of forestry near their house with a chopper tucked under their coats and "lberated" a tree!! I would have loved to have seen that, those pillars of rectitude, certainly giggling (because I would bet they needed a bit of Dutch courage) their way around a forest in the middle of the night and dragging a tree home (no car) !! Years later she owned up to the local factor (land agent, I suppose in England) and every year thereafter a 6' Christmas tree arrived at their door a week or so before Christmas, courtesy of Philiphaugh Estates!

Thin black pop up one due to limited space and a small green readily decorated waiting to be enhanced ..Looks different each year with different Dec's swapped about

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!

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 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!

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

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

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!

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.

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

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