Who still has xmas trees?

We waited too long for the Rotary tree sale this year. Are Home Depot trees lousy? Other suggestions?

You can try http://www.hiddenpondtreefarm.com/ - they have pre-cut ones and you can also hike out to the outskirts of the farm and saw down your own tree. We were there 2 days ago and they had plenty of both.

Metropolitan Plant Exchange in West Orange has good trees. Or they did on Saturday.

The only time we bought our tree from Home Depot we sorely regretted doing so. Maybe we were just unlucky, but the tree dried out very quickly and dropped needles everywhere.

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jeffl said:

We waited too long for the Rotary tree sale this year. Are Home Depot trees lousy? Other suggestions?

Didn't check on my own, but a guy at Millstone told me that Home Depot had sold out.

We've gotten Home Depot trees for many years now. they're fine. They have balsams which I like the best cuz of fragrance.

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Oh wait! HD sold OUT?!!! yikes. I got mine last wednesday. seemed like alot still there.

Got that info secondhand, FWIW. Apparently, though, there has been something of a local run on trees.

Whole Foods

Millstone in Maplewood still had a good selection when we got ours yesterday.

eta: the one year that we waited too long to get our tree (a few years ago), we got one from Home Depot. It started dropping needles and drying out much sooner than any other tree we'd had before or since.

DaveSchmidt said:

jeffl said:

We waited too long for the Rotary tree sale this year. Are Home Depot trees lousy? Other suggestions?

Didn't check on my own, but a guy at Millstone told me that Home Depot had sold out.

I think the guy a Millstone was jerking your balsam ... We got ours at HD and are very happy.

cody said:

Millstone in Maplewood still had a good selection when we got ours yesterday.

eta: the one year that we waited too long to get our tree (a few years ago), we got one from Home Depot. It started dropping needles and drying out much sooner than any other tree we'd had before or since.

Millstone today had eight feet and taller, though not many, and five feet and smaller. I think I got the last of the NBA heights.

You can try Hillcrest Farms in Verona. On Sunday they had a good selection of trees at decent prices in very good shape, as well as wreaths, garland and plants. The staff was helpful and plentiful, and we had our Douglas Fir picked out and tied on top of the car in 15 mins.

We have gotten good trees and dried out trees from just about everywhere. Of course the ones we cut ourselves did not dry out. Got one at Home Depot last year and it was very good. The one we had the year before was very dry.

We went to Dixiedale farm in chatham last weekend. they have precut ones for $75 and cut your own for $65.

Millstone had some beautiful fraziers (and Douglas firs, but we don't buy them) on the 12th at closing. 85 total left at the time. They deliver and set up for $25 which is nice.

HD got their trees around 11/20 this year, so generally not a good sign for longevity.

Got a beautiful tree from Millstone yesterday. The house smells of pine as soon as enter. Seems fresher than most trees we've gotten in the past.

They were rather nice. Cut late in NC.

Picked up a Fraizer Fir this afternoon at Home Depot. The helper said they got a shipment of several hundred yesterday from NC.

ctrzaska said:

Millstone had some beautiful fraziers (and Douglas firs, but we don't buy them) on the 12th at closing. 85 total left at the time.

Thanks for the better count after my "not many." I never could estimate crowds (and was preoccupied with finding that last seven-footer).