The Observation Deck

I'm looking for suggestions...

we've been going to the same Christmas tree lot for the past 20 years, but the family that had been running it has finally called it quits.

So the Callentine family will need to find a new place to get it's annual tree.

I'd prefer to buy from a reputable family farm or at least from a lot that is run by a good local charity or non-profit.

So help me out. Any recommendations?

Lakewood Garden Center just posted they are stocked with trees, roping and wreaths. I don't buy fresh trees but I've heard good things about the Christmas trees they sell and they are very nice local business.

Fred’s Tree Farm In Valley City (Medina).

Not to discourage anyone who wants to buy a real cut tree, (my family has done that too) but...

...here's a neat alternative...

When we bought our home fifty one years ago, we discovered numerous pines around the place. Turns out a family many more years before us got a young live tree every year, used it as a house plant, and re-planted it in the springtime around the home.

Unfortunately over time, we lost those trees to old age and infirmity, but all in all, it was likely a better (and longer) life for them, and a cool living and positive memory for the kids in that family of all those Christmases...this I do believe.

Back to the banjo...

Gary Rice wrote:Not to discourage anyone who wants to buy a real cut tree, (my family has done that too) but...

...here's a neat alternative...

When we bought our home fifty one years ago, we discovered numerous pines around the place. Turns out a family many more years before us got a young live tree every year, used it as a house plant, and re-planted it in the springtime around the home.

Unfortunately over time, we lost those trees to old age and infirmity, but all in all, it was likely a better (and longer) life for them, and a cool living and positive memory for the kids in that family of all those Christmases...this I do believe.

Back to the banjo...

Gary

All of the pine trees around my house, and the houses nearby are replanted Christmas Trees. One in out front yard goes back to when I was 10-years-old.

A great reuse of trees.

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The boy scouts used to sell them around 168th and Lorain at the YMCA, I wish St Edwards would get in on it, and sell trees, that's where I would buy mine, or Lakewood High School, what better place to do business, the kids would load them for you, a good deal all the way around.

+1 for Lakewood Garden Center. That's where I've gotten mine the last 3-4 years. I generally get mine the first few days of December, and it lasts into the first week of January, about five weeks, no problem. Like so many others I like the Fraser fir. Looks and smells nice and seems to last.

Thanks for your opinion, I'm going to get that tree from them,

+2 for Lakewood Garden Center.
Great local business.
Can't say enough about that place.

Sounds like Lakewood Garden Center is the place to go.

thanks for the input, we'll probably be headed over there later on this weekend.