O Christmas tree! O Christmas tree! Thy leaves are so unchanging
THREE-year-old Stanley Marsh celebrates the start of Christmas tree season by placing a star on a Nordmann Firs tree at Netherraw Forestry, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
The plantation is home to over one million firs, 70,000 of which will be felled in the coming weeks. Thousands will make their way into the homes of John Lewis customers throughout the UK as the retailer is selling real Christmas trees for the first time, exclusively to online customers.
Last year around six million Christmas trees were sold throughout the UK. The Forestry Commission alone plants around 150,000 real Christmas trees each year, about half of which are fir, believed to be the best Christmas tree for holding its needles.