Christmas without a Christmas tree is incomplete. For those who don’t know, a Christmas tree is a decorated tree, generally an evergreen conifer like pine, spruce, fir or an artificial tree of similar look. Christmas trees are used as indoor as well as outdoor decorations.
People nowadays decorate Christmas trees in their own way; some make it colorful by putting lots of lights, hanging balls, small stars, tiny artificial gifts and toffee packs, flowers and many other things.
* Evergreen trees have been used to celebrate the winter season even before the birth of Jesus Christ. Actually, pagans used the branches of evergreen trees to decorate their homes during the winter solstice, thinking of the upcoming spring.
* The very 1st decorated Christmas tree was put up in Riga, Latvia in the year 1510.
* Trees used to be festooned with edible decorations. The first Christmas trees in Germany were decorated with apples, gingerbread, wafers and sweets.
* The Original Christmas trees aren’t always fir trees. Different types of trees are used in different countries. Take for example, in New Zealand - the ‘Pohutakawa’ tree with red flowers is used sometimes.
* Christmas tree is thirsty. Even if you have cut them down and placed in your living room, a Christmas tree must be treated as a cut flower. It has only been cut down and not dead. It can drink a litre of water daily in the first week hence keep watering it.