New Fir Tree Available at Paul’s Tree Farm Again This Year. 

Canaan fir will be available again this year as a Choose & cut Christmas Tree at Paul's Tree Farm.  We will also have a few more Concolor (White) Fir available this year.  The needle length on this fir are a little longer than on other firs.  In 2007 we put up a Concolor Fir and loved it!  We cut it on November 14th & put it up December 6th & took it down on January 13th.  It had been up 39 days!  It hardly lost a needle & the needles and branches were soft & pliable just like the day we set it up.

Over the past ten years or so Paul’s Tree Farm has been experimenting in the growing of Exotic Christmas trees. The definition of an "Exotic tree" is one that normally doesn’t grow in the area.

Paul's Tree Farm has been raising Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce, White Spruce, Balsam Fir and Scotch Pine successfully for years. These can hardly be called "exotic" any longer.

The most popular exotic tree is the Fraser Fir, but is difficult to grow. As an alternative to Fraser Fir, Paul’s Tree Farm has been planting Canaan Fir, along with Fraser Fir. Canaan Fir is a natural cross between Balsam and Fraser. The Canaan resembles the Fraser, but is easier to grow and more hardy like the Balsam. They are native to the Canaan Valley in West Virginia. Paul's Tree Farm has several thousand in the ground and they are doing very well. They are less susceptible to root rot, drought and late Spring frosts. There will be a few Canaan Fir big enough to cut this year.  The supply will be limited.

Also being planted on an experimental basis are Meyer Spruce, Douglas Fir (Deep Mountain variety), Grand Fir, Korean Fir, Nordmann Fir, Siberian Fir and Serbian Spruce. Some of these varieties may prove to not do well in Southern Wisconsin. Only time will tell.

The following Hybrid trees are also being grown and available this year: Hybrid White Spruce, Hybrid P-70 Balsam Fir, Blister Rust Resistant White Pine, "Misty Blue" variety of Colorado Blue Spruce and Norway (Red Pine) from selected seed source. These have all proven to be genetically superior as Christmas trees to the older regular varieties.

With the increasing popularity of the short needled varieties (Spruce & Fir), Paul's Tree Farm is doing all they can to bring you the best there is available on the market and a huge selection of varieties of Christmas trees. Of course the longer needle varieties of Pines (Scotch, White & Norway) will continue to be available. They are not as popular as in the past, but they will always be in demand.

For more information on Christmas trees, check out the following websites:

www.realchristmastrees.org