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Christmas Trees
Jan. 3rd, 2024 12:01 pm We have an artificial Christmas tree. We've had it for most of our married life. It may be artificial but it still sheds needles; I've just been sweeping them up. The needles are made of...well. I don't know exactly... so I'm pausing mid-sentence to examine one. And the verdict is some sort of shiny dark green plastic- presumably cast in sheets and then put through a shredder. How incurious of me not to have looked into this before!
An earlier version of myself bought real trees- always insisting that they be rooted. After they'd stood their time in the living room I would plant them out in the garden. If I remember rightly at least one of them survived and flourished. If it has continued flourishing it will now be a sizable tree of over thirty winters. Sadly I have no way of accessing the garden I planted it in to find out.
We called by the recycling centre this morning- in a sunny interval between storms- and saw how the discarded trees were piling up in the area reserved for garden waste...
An earlier version of myself bought real trees- always insisting that they be rooted. After they'd stood their time in the living room I would plant them out in the garden. If I remember rightly at least one of them survived and flourished. If it has continued flourishing it will now be a sizable tree of over thirty winters. Sadly I have no way of accessing the garden I planted it in to find out.
We called by the recycling centre this morning- in a sunny interval between storms- and saw how the discarded trees were piling up in the area reserved for garden waste...
