Another alternative: live trees! I normally hunt my own to cut in the hills, but a forest fire burned everything for miles... so we bought a spruce still in it

Another alternative: live trees! I normally hunt my own to cut in the hills, but a forest fire burned everything for miles... so we bought a spruce still in its pot from the nursery. It costs more and it’s smaller than our usual, but we’ll plant it outside in the spring when the ground unfreezes (note you can’t plant it after xmas because the temperature shock from coming out of dormancy while inside will kill it).