Richmond Nursery Christmas Trees

It takes about seven years for a Christmas tree to grow. As the nursery evolved over the years and saw some crops become less important, more land became available. Christmas trees have been added to a number of fields.

Our first experiment into Christmas Trees was with the common White Spruce. At the time of planting, it was the most popular and economical tree, though it is not nearly as common as it has been in the past. However, we still have over 5,000 White Spruce planted used as Christmas Trees and boughs.

Christmas trees start off as small one or two year old seedlings about 12" to 18" in height. They get planted out, pruned regularly and in roughly seven years, they are large enough to become Christmas Trees.

In 2005 an additional field was planted with Balsam and Fraser Fir with more to be planted in the future on other less used land. Some of these trees may be used for landscape grade conifers in the future as well.