My Choice For Christmas Tree

Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens). The perfect Christmas tree. An elegant beauty.

Purchase a small live tree. Plant it in the yard after it serves its first showing as the grand tree. Wait a few years for it to grow, cut it, bring it in, and let it have its second grand tree event.

While it’s in the yard it will be a showpiece, particularly in snow and ice!

Native to the central and southern Rocky Mountains. Lots of ice and snow there.

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.