We here at Urban Forest Pro cut down a lot of these ill-fated Christmas trees very year. It will probably need to be cut down sometime in the not-too-distant future.Trees sometimes never return to a good strong healthy structure after this type of pruning. Although this is good for ornament hanging it is bad for the long-term health of the tree. Christmas trees, even live ones, are often sheared on the side and on the top to give them a more attractive shape. The decorative pruning done to maintain a Christmas tree shape effects the long-term health of the tree.Also, if you are open to planting a large evergreen, the smaller and shorter-lived Christmas tree is going to be taking up a spot where a long lived evergreen could be planted and grow for 100’s of years, making a real impact on our urban canopy. Most Christmas trees, given the opportunity to grow to their full potential, will grow big and wide and full, taking up an enormous amount of space in your yard. Typical Christmas tree varieties don’t make good yard trees.Putting the tree back outside in the cold of the winter can shock it and possibly kill it. Once you bring the tree inside a warm house for more than a week, it thinks it is spring. The tree, like it always did, sensed the season and went dormant. Before you purchased your lovely Christmas tree it was at the nursery, sitting outside in the cold. The tree can’t go right back outside after Christmas.

But there is actually a lot to consider and as good stewards of the trees, we have to highlight some of the more negative considerations below. Well, if you are thinking about planting it in your yard, you might want to think again.Īs an early tree hugger, I planted a Christmas tree or two in my yard as an adolescent, so I understand the appeal. I mean why cut down a tree when you don’t have too, right? And now that Christmas is over you are pondering what to do with that live tree sitting in your living room. So you choose to do a live Christmas tree.

Happy christmas tree kill