Few people imagine New Year's holidays without a fluffy Christmas tree decorated with toys and lanterns. It is a pity to buy a felled forest beauty, and not everyone is attracted by an artificial tree. Therefore, in recent years, small decorative Christmas trees in pots have become very popular, which are pleasant to give and receive as a New Year's surprise.
A small live Christmas tree is like a flower in a pot: it looks very cute, and will live much longer than any other houseplant. A decorative Christmas tree will be a great gift: just decorate it with a few New Year's toys or a small garland. It can be presented to a colleague at work, boss, relatives, friends, or simply to please yourself and your family with a New Year tree.
How to choose the right Christmas tree
Anyone who has ever tried to dig a Christmas tree in a nearby forest and plant it on his site knows that such an undertaking is rarely successful. The fact is that conifers are very moody. Even Christmas trees grown in the nursery and specially designed for transplanting into the ground take a long and reluctant way to take root. A very young tree, dug out with a large supply of land, sometimes needs several years to finally acclimatize.
The same is the case with decorative Christmas trees in pots. Since the root system of spruces consists of thin long roots that dry out easily and practically do not recover, it is very vulnerable.
In order to properly transplant the Christmas tree into a pot, the formation of an earthen coma must be carried out very carefully, and the coma itself must be made large enough.
To understand which tree you are buying, you need to ask the seller to remove it from the pot. If the earthen lump is firmly held by the roots, then this is a living tree, which, after the end of the holidays, can be planted in a summer cottage or in the yard of a house. If the earthy ball crumbles, the root system of the tree is damaged and the plant has already died.
Where to buy a decorative Christmas tree
A month and a half before the holidays, a lively Christmas tree trade begins. If you want to get a guaranteed living and healthy tree, choose it from a nursery or a shop that specializes in landscaping. The prices for Christmas trees there are quite high, but all the trees were grown in compliance with the technology. They will tolerate life in a container well, and when transplanting they will be moderately whimsical in relation to the quality of the soil and its moisture.
If the New Year is just around the corner, then you can buy a little fluffy beauty at the numerous Christmas tree markets, which are usually located in the most crowded places of the city. Here you need to choose a decorative Christmas tree especially carefully in order to acquire a really vigorous and viable tree.
For those who do not have the opportunity to choose a New Year's beauty for a long time, there is a convenient modern option: you can buy a Christmas tree in a pot through an online store. There is always a large selection of ordinary and varietal spruces, pines from the Baltic countries, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland.
A small tree with a height of 0.3 to 0.5 m is usually chosen as a gift Christmas tree. It will perfectly fit into the interior of any room or office.
An elegant fluffy beauty will create a great New Year's mood for everyone and give the room a cozy and festive look. If you water the tree with water at room temperature 1-2 times a week, then after the holidays it will delight the owners with juicy greens of its needles.
