Christmas Trees
INFORMATION & OPENING HOURS
Open Every Saturday & Sunday 10am – 4pm
4ft to 12ft Trees Available
Prices start from £25
STOCKS AVAILABLE UNTIL 17TH DECEMBER
LANGLEY HORTICULTURE ALSO STOCK
KINDLING – NETTED BAGS
KINDLING ONLY £4
SEASONED LOGS – NETTED BAGS
SEASONED NETTED LOGS ONLY £4
Delivery charges may apply and will be based on the order size and location so, please provide us with as much information when you contact us with your enquiry.
If you would prefer to collect up your order please email sales@langleyhorticulture.co.uk to make an appointment.
Please note that payments cannot be made online. A member of staff will call you and take payment over the phone.
More Information About Christmas Trees
A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as spruce, pine, or fir or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas. The modern Christmas tree was developed in early modern Germany.
The tree was traditionally decorated with “roses made of colored paper, apples, wafers, tinsel & sweetmeats” the apples and and round ornaments are supposed to represent the fruit of knowledge of good and evil from the first book in the Bible, Genisis. In the 18th century, it began to be illuminated by candles which were ultimately replaced by Christmas lights after the advent of electrification.
Today, there is a wide variety of traditional ornaments, such as garlands, baubles, tinsel, and candy canes. An angel or star might be placed at the top of the tree to represent the archangel Gabriel or the Star of Bethlehem from the Nativity. Edible items such as gingerbread, chocolate and other sweets are also popular, and are tied to or hung from the tree’s branches with ribbons.
In the Western Christian tradition, Christmas trees are variously erected on days such as the first day of Advent or even as late as Christmas Eve depending on the country; customs of the same faith hold that the two traditional days when Christmas decorations, such as the Christmas tree, are removed are Twelfth Night and if they are not taken down on that day, Candlemas, the latter of which ends the Christmas-Epiphany season in some denominations. The Christmas tree is sometimes compared with the “Yule-tree”, especially in discussions of its folkloric origins.