Christmas trees...what colour?

Thin black pop up one due to limited space and a small green readily decorated waiting to be enhanced ..Looks different each year with different Dec's swapped about

My German mother's first Christmas in Scotland was 1947 and honestly I don't think anybody in their wee town had ever had a Christmas tree so one night she and my dad went out into the vast areas of forestry near their house with a chopper tucked under their coats and "lberated" a tree!! I would have loved to have seen that, those pillars of rectitude, certainly giggling (because I would bet they needed a bit of Dutch courage) their way around a forest in the middle of the night and dragging a tree home (no car) !! Years later she owned up to the local factor (land agent, I suppose in England) and every year thereafter a 6' Christmas tree arrived at their door a week or so before Christmas, courtesy of Philiphaugh Estates!

A small real tree on a high up table so that 20 month old GD does not deconstruct it. It will not be very stylish but all the decorations will mean something to us.

Love that story DaphneBroon.
Its nice to hear that everyone is different and like different kinds of trees. I see this year you can get bronzey/coppery coloured ones, haven't seen those before.

For all who like Christmas trees and cats, check out Simon's Cat on youtube, the Christmas one.Years ago, when we had real Christmas trees, one of our cats did a demolition job on it much like this cartoon.Hilarious......as long as it isn't your cat or lovingly decorated tree!

I gave up on a real tree?some years ago when I was faced with an army of ants crawling all over the carpet one morning ??? they were nesting in the pot .... yuk!!

I have really enjoyed reading about everyone's trees and how different we all are.
I like to see and smell the real trees and appreciate those which some of our friends put up. Personally we just don't want to have the mess to clear away.
We have had our green artificial tree for about 40 years and when we bought it we thought it was hideously expensive even though it was in a sale. It looks so realistic and the shaping is so good that it is not obvious that it is artificial. We have certainly had our money's worth out of it as it still looks really good. We have a vast selection of entirely random baubles, some inherited, some special buys and, most precious of all, some made by DC when they were small.
We are not putting up decorations this year since we will not be home until well after Twelfth Night.

Since our little grandsons arrived I have had an artifical green one. Less heavy if it falls on them. I have managed to get this tree in a sort of "cage" to keep the little ones out of it.

Once toddler DGS2 gets old enough (also 20mnths) not to pull it on himself or such like I will go back to a proper one.
I would never have a black one. It makes me think someone is holding a black mass.
My trees always have our collection of old traditional decorations we have had since they were small. with some changes.

Well, as indicate upthread, we now have a new tree, and it is green, and it is huge. It will just about clear the ceiling and take up far more floor space than the old one. The fairy will have a crick in her neck as she will not clear the ceiling. This is what comes of letting DH out on his own. I am trying to be patient but, to quote the Duke of Wellington, it will be "a damn close run thing"!