I love the look and smell of a real Christmas tree, but I do not love crawling on my hands and knees every two days, wrestling with branches like I’m in some sort of festive jungle just to pour water ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It's estimated around 25 million real Christmas trees are sold in the U.S. every year. However, the ...

As an Extension Forester, Curtis VanderSchaaf has worked with Christmas tree growers in his region. Every year somewhere between 25 million and 30 million Christmas trees are sold in the United States ...

This past Christmas, we put up a real Scotch pine Christmas tree. It made the entire house smell like a forest, and it was great, until we forgot to keep water in the tree stand. The tree ended up ...