Thursday, December 1, 2011
quicko: christmas tree tidings
I'm amazed how very little counts as a Christmas tree here. People who have waist-high trees are continually insisting that theirs "counts" -- when they're even fake trees at that! The public display trees are good and very well-sized, but I've yet to encounter a fully sized Christmas tree in a house here.
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Maybe pine trees are not native to Australia? They may cost a bunch to import if that is the case. Since many of our cut trees are shipped down from Canada, it makes me wonder where in Australia they would grow in a similar native habitat?
If it is a real Christmas tree you want, maybe you need to come home for Christmas.
Don't worry 'Mom' we have native conifers (possibly the most internationally famous are the Bunya, Hoop, Huon and Wollemi Pines) and pine plantations. Our pines are also not restricted to one type of climate - we have pines native to most, if not all states and territories.
I guess most of us just (a) aren't fussed on cleaning up pine needles - cut trees probably die faster here than there due to the heat; (b) are away from home for long periods (it's our long school holidays after all) so a real tree doesn't work for that; (c) don't want a tree, full stop, because of associations with Pagan rituals & traditions (my hubby falls into this category).
We can get living trees but then there's the problem of what to do with it later - plant it in the garden so it becomes three+ times as tall before next Christmas and one couldn't 'trim' it at that height anyway? That's what happened with one from my childhood. Fortunately my parents' place is large so it's not out of place as an ordinary tree, but it's also not really accessible to decorate.
I bought one the first year here. I was pretty expensive, though, $50-60? I had no ornaments so it ended up being expensive. I thing ornaments are something you have to accumulate. We usually go away for Christmas so I rarely have one.
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