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Selecting The Most Popular From The Wholesale Christmas Trees Virginia Farmers Grow

By Dennis Anderson


If you are planning to make some extra money this year opening a holiday tree lot, you have to start making decisions early. You will need to contract with a farmer and have your tree order in no later than October 1. Which plants to buy should reflect what customers are looking for. You want to choose the best and most popular varieties from the wholesale Christmas trees Virginia farmers have to offer.

In most areas of the country, the Fraser Fir is the most popular holiday tree. This is for good reason. It has a beautiful blue-green color and is soft to the touch. Buyers love the almost perfect conical form most of the plants have. They also like the fact that the needles are short, and the branches have enough room between them to make decorating easy.

The Noble Fir is another great tree that most people like. It is deep green with graceful, artistically shaped branches. Decorating a Noble is easy because, like the Fraser, the branches are spaced well enough apart to make hanging ornaments easy for even a novice decorator. They can accommodate heavy ornaments handily.

Customers who have homes with wide open interior spaces may be looking for big, tall plants. The Grand Fir fits the bill for them. It is dark green in color and has soft, short needles like the Fraser and Noble. Unlike those trees however, the Noble fir branches aren't suited for really heavy ornaments. If your customer wants to make a dramatic statement, the Noble Fir could be a good choice.

Balsam Firs are favorites with families that love to fill their homes with the smell of a living tree. Balsam Firs are very aromatic with nice form and pretty dark green needles. They will not hold heavy ornaments however. The branches are too light and delicate for that.

The White Pine is the only pine tree that makes the top ten favorites list in any given year. Customers recognize this tree by its long soft needles that make the branches look like great big feathers. They are favorites of those like to make wreaths and garlands. Because this is such a lush tree, decorating it can be challenging, and heavy ornaments won't work.

The Douglas Fir is a perennial favorite with many families. It has shiny green needles and can grow as large as the Grand Fir. It is not a good tree for holding heavy ornaments though, and it can be difficult to decorate because the branches can get too dense to hang dangling type decorations.

If you want to see trees fly off your lot this year, you need to offer what people are looking for. Everybody has favorites, and the more varieties you offer, the more likely you are to make a sale. Buying the hardiest, healthiest, and best looking trees is the best way keep your customers coming back year after year.




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