Why kill the trees ?????? For the same price or close to it one can buy a 2-3 foot spruce tree with root ball and bring it in side, decorare it and later take it outside and plant it in the yard. No yard, then sell it for half price to a coworker friend of family that has a place for it. Or give it away, after all if it was dead it would just be thrown out.
Been trying for 20+ years to get hubby to do this, ----He reminds me of Fiddler on the Roof---TRADITION----darn it all.
Neighbor did this about 15 years ago, he went out and dug a hole for the tree when the ground was still soft not frozen. When I visited them they had the tree with root ball and dirt in a very large pot in his front window all decked out in lights and decorations. Only a bit less then 3 feet tall and a beauty. After Christmass he moved the tree to his back porch and wrapped it up in plastic and newspapers and there it sat until March. He then moved it to it's new home and today it is a good 12 feet tall. All toll he planted a good 7 of the trees , when his wife died and he moved those trees still remind me of him and wife.--------His home lot was 1/4 acre and became a wonderland of trees.
Trees add to the value of property, even if one lives in a run down trailer park, the first beat up old home to be sold is the one with the most trees and the most cared for shrubs.
The only dead or dieing trees I buy are lumber.
