On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:34:40 -0600, Muggles
wrote:

I have a live potted Frazier Fir tree on my front porch that I bought a
few weeks ago. I thought I was going to bring it in and decorate it as a
table top tree, but instead I just kept it on the front porch and put
lights on it out there. Inside I took the old lights off the table top
tree from years past and put new LEDs on it and it looks like a brand
new tree, now.

--
Maggie

If I really wanted a LIVE tree, I'd probably get one of these potted
trees too. I've always thought that cutting down all those young conifer
trees every year are a huge waste. They could become lumber or provide
other needs, while giving us oxygen in the process. Instead they are cut
down, put in someone's house for a few weeks, then tossed in the trash.
Many of them dont even get into someone's home. They go to a xmas tree
lot and are never sold, and just go right to the trash. That is such a
waste.

The age old arguement is that they are PLANTED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Yea,
that's true, but that uses up land that could be used to grow food or
grow trees for lumber or other uses.

The artificial trees today can be very realistic looking, and do the
same thing as a REAL tree. They are safer, and you dont have to buy a
new one each year. Not to mention less work....

While LED light sets are a lot safer than the old incan... bulbs, live
trees can still quickly start a fire if they are ignited. I cant even
imagine how or why anyone with a brain would use candles on a conifer
tree inside a house, yet that was common practice before electric xmas
lights.

And for those who like the scent of pine in your house. There are lots
of ways to achieve that without killing trees....