Selecting & Caring for Your Real Tree

The celebrating of Christmas with a real tree has been a tradition for over 400 years. At one time, all Christmas trees were cut from natural stands (or straight out of the forest). As you can imagine, these wild trees looked nothing like today's professionally grown and sheared trees. Today Christmas trees are plantation grown. Matthes Evergreen Farm is a choose and cut farm where you can come, select and cut down your own tree. 

To make your tradition a more memorable and pleasant one, we’d like to offer a few helpful hints when selecting a tree:

If you're looking for a particular size of tree?

• Wide trees include Douglas Fir, Scotch Pine and Blue Spruce

• Narrow trees include Fraser Fir and Canaan Fir

What is the length of time the tree will be displayed?

• A short time (3 weeks or less) - all varieties

• A longer period (up to 6 weeks) - Scotch Pine, Fraser Fir and White Pine

How much decoration will be used?

• The more decorations that are used, the stronger the branches need to be, so we recommend purchasing a Blue Spruce or Frasier Fir.