For Christmas tree shoppers who want a real live tree that’s also reusable like an artificial one, there’s a solution: rentable, potted trees that are planted in the ground when they grow too big.
Monica's Husky-German Shephard mix, Heidi, is the business's official greeter and CDO: chief dog officer.Customers order their trees online, where they can pick their tree based on species, height and price. Then, the trees are delivered to their homes or businesses for a period of 30 days, after which they are picked up. This makes trees accessible to older people and business owners who don't have the capacity to install one themselves, Hudson said.
Very rarely is one of the rented trees stolen or killed. Only three have been swiped in 13 years of business, and those were largely due to customers leaving their trees in the wrong place to be picked up, Hudson said. Otherwise, about 2% of trees die each year of dehydration, despite people signing a waiver promising to water them each day. Hudson described it as a big loss, as the trees take a long time to grow: It can take about 10 years to cultivate a six-foot tree.
The National Christmas Tree Association points out on its website that real trees are grown as crops, not harvested from a forest, and seedlings are planted in place of each one cut down.
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