Austrian Pine
The Austrian Pine is the ideal tree for hanging large and/or heavy ornaments. This tree has strong limbs with long needles. It's limbs are more openly spaced and has good needle retention.
Scotch Pine
The Scotch Pine is a full tree with strong limbs. This tree has medium length needles and has good needle retention.
Eastern White Pine
The Eastern White Pine has light limbs with very soft needles. This tree is best suited for light ornaments and small lights. A beautiful full tree with excellent needle retention.
Southwestern White Pine
The Southwestern White Pine is similar to the Eastern White Pine but has stronger limbs. This tree has soft, blue-green needles with excellent needle retention.
Canaan Fir
The Canaan Fir is similar to the Fraser Fir - it has soft, short, blue-green needles. This tree has a wonderful fragrance and good needle retention.
Concolor Fir
The Concolor Fir has soft, silvery, blue-green needles. In addition to it's natural shape, it has an excellent aroma. This tree has the best needle retention of any of our trees.
Douglas Fir
The Douglas Fir is one of the most popular Christmas Trees in the nation. It has soft green needles and a very pleasant fragrance. Cut after cold weather for best needle retention.
Fraser Fir
We do not grow the Fraser Fir on our farm. We buy fresh cut trees from North Carolina. This tree has dark blue-green needles, pleasing fragrance and excellent needle retention.
When you visit our farm at Christmas you will be able to select from 8 varieties of Christmas Trees of which we grow 7 of these varieties.
Fraser Fir are brought in from North Carolina to supplement our selection. We cut a couple inches off of the trunks of these trees and place them in water inside our shed out of the sun and wind until we are ready to display them.
The farm has approximately 20,000 trees growing on 30 acres. Each year we plant from 1,500 to 2,500 trees depending on the survival and the sales of the previous year. It takes anywhere from 7 to 9 years to grow a 6 ft tree that is ready for market.
Some of the trees are watered with a drip system and others with an overhead sprinkler system. This enables us to provide fresh trees even during dry years. Each tree is trimmed by hand each year after about the 3rd or 4th year.