Price of Christmas trees

[MuswellMetro]

I normally get my Christmas trees from a friend's farm in exchange for a couple of jars of honey, and the same this year, i cut myself a 8ft nordman non drop and gave him 3 jars of honey...he was happy

on the way home i dropped into a garden centre at syon park , Isleworth , london to get a few decorations

suprised to see christmas trees priced at £69.99 for 8ft non drop trees and £54.99 for 6ft trees..is that really the price the are going for in Towns? or is it only high priced rip off London

 

[parkranger]

Rural Norfolk

A real 7 ft non drop beauty today for £32.00

Probably wouldn't pay that for a tree for the garden that would last a lifetime....but it's Christmas.

 

[MuswellMetro]

Rural Norfolk

A real 7 ft non drop beauty today for £32.00

Probably wouldn't pay that for a tree for the garden that would last a lifetime....but it's Christmas.

thats about the price i was expecting £30 to £35, but 70....

 

[Neils]

Ours is potted and maybe 4ft tops at £25. The taller ones were a lot more but I don't think they were anything approaching £70

 

[Erichalfbee]

Pot grown £40 here

 

[Chrisfnvs]

The garden centers have to make some money back as they have not sold much in the way of bedding plants this year due to the bad weather, but i do agree £70 is a little high.

 

[alanf]

a garden centre at syon park , Isleworth , london to get a few decorations

suprised to see christmas trees priced at £69.99 for 8ft non drop trees and £54.99 for 6ft trees..is that really the price the are going for in Towns? or is it only high priced rip off London

The trees do appear to be standard chain lines and only a tenner more than the same size and species the diy sheds stock. On the other hand, you do realise Syon had the reputation as the most expensive garden centre in the area and therefore possibly the entire world? That is, if you exclude a few small urban shops that are closer to expanded florists.

This branch might be part of a chain but when I was there a couple of years ago they still had 'exclusive' lines and range that you won't see outside one or two specialists elsewhere. One way to think of this is it's the nearest sizeable garden centre to the Chelsea flower show. Or that the Duke of Northumberland's estate it's part of runs down to the river where it faces Kew Gardens. It was always somewhere to try for rarities but be prepared to pay. A few years back when I looked, they had olive trees. Imported from somewhere a lot warmer and in large tubs. They would be ideal transplanted into a chic city courtyard, even a penthouse planting scheme. These were not your standard cuttings grown on, they're maybe twelve feet high and twisted by age. What would you expect to pay? Start at five thousand pounds.

 

[Chris B]

I'm in the wrong game. I should be growing trees.

I fished a few times at Syon back in the mid-nineties. I stopped because it was too easy to catch your (expensive) limit in 20 minutes. But now a friend of mine has bees there and I have an invite for a free fishing trip in exchange for bee help. Roll on springtime.

 

[Pete D]

2 years back I bought 120 6 - 8'' bare root traditional Christmas trees for £35 on a whim whilst wandering around an auction. At the same auction I got 150 10ltr pots for a tenner. A blend of 4 grow bags, some of my compost bin and veg bed dirt, coupled with 3 hrs of help from the wife potting them up and they were all lined up along the fence and just needed weekly watering and top dressing each spring.
I plan to try and sell them next Christmas as 3ft pot grown (currently about 2ft - 2ft 6) and initially thought a fiver each would be good as my cost is less than 50p each.
My wife who is the weekly waterer found it theraputic which was handy and this year she has had a lot less therapy due to the weather !
Roll on next Christmas and I will hopefully realise the cash !

We had 4 of them indoors last Christmas as our tree which was actually rather nice, more a copse than a tree !

Pete D

 

[DontWorryBeeHappy]

The dearest honey in the uk

So your honey is worth £23.33 a jar. You are ripping off that poor farmer friend of yours

 

[dpearce4]

down here in sussex, the price is £10 per foot for cut and more if you want pot grown or rooted.

 

[MJBee]

Just paid £16.10 (Euros 20) for a cut 10' tree direct from the grower

 

[theboynelson]

Ithink that the price shown in the photo is more a reflection on the G@rd?n C£ntre Group. They tend to rely on giving people a glitzy shopping experience, smaller independents are usually much more reasonably priced.

 

[ultreen1]

Same chain in Cardiff same prices!
£55 for our tree today! 6ft

 

[psafloyd]

Has anyone considered just not having a tree?

 

[BeeJayBee]

down here in sussex, the price is £10 per foot for cut and more if you want pot grown or rooted.

Ours is still in its box in the attic. Didn't cost much to begin with, because it was bought late one year, just before C-Day when the real, "pot grown", one we'd bought shed all its needles within a week of bringing it home. It'll last for ages, a bit like our poly hives

We've got one in the garden though, maybe we should guard it because a) it can be seen from the road and b) at that (^^) price it's probably worth at least a hundred or so pounds!

 

[MuswellMetro]

Ours is still in its box in the attic. Didn't cost much to begin with, because it was bought late one year, just before C-Day when the real, "pot grown", one we'd bought shed all its needles within a week of bringing it home. It'll last for ages, a bit like our poly hives

We've got one in the garden though, maybe we should guard it because a) it can be seen from the road and b) at that (^^) price it's probably worth at least a hundred or so pounds!

i see then, it is a bit like hives /poly versus wood which is better, i wonder if POLYHIVE from the land on the massive pine forests has a poly Christmas tree or a natural wood one

 

[oliver90owner]

Anyone know what Harrods or Fortnum & Mason charge? Some of these prices seem to in their sort of area.

 

[tonybloke]

we'll get our fake tree out of the loft soon,it's lasted well over ten yrs

 

[Cazza]

Has anyone considered just not having a tree?

Yes. Me.
No tree, decorations,cards, presents or cr*p. Just turkey on the day.
Cazza