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Dove Syke is a registered smallholding with a family run Christmas Tree Farm. The "Choose and Cut farm" has helped to renew the tradition of the entire family selecting and cutting the Christmas tree. The whole family can have great fun in the process of choosing a tree.
The tradition of celebrating with a real Christmas tree dates back 500 years. The use of evergreens as a sYmbol and celebration of life during the Winter Solstice celebrations started in ancient Roman and Egyptian times. By the 1700's the tradition of celebrating the holidays with a tree was widely practiced throughout Europe.
Usually the Christmas tree begins life in a nursery where superior seed is planted and grown to a 2 year old seedling. The seedlings are then taken from the nursery beds and planted in a Christmas tree plantation; while growing, the trees provide many environmental benefits. They replenish the earth's oxygen supplies, serve as a wildlife habitat, increase soil stability and provide a valuable and aesthetically pleasing improvement to the land.. Each year some species are shaped and pruned; there average growing time is 6 to 10 years for a well shaped 6-8 foot tree depending on the specie, weather conditions and soil.
We have several species of trees available and operate a wholesale supply as well as a service to the general public at Christmas time. |
