Saturday 5 December 2009

Arvores Natal

I don't know who pays for them - the junta da freguesia (parish council), I expect - but Christmas Trees are given away free here. They pile them up in the car park and you just go down and take your pick. Which is nice.


For those interested in the botanics, they are Cryptomeria Japonica, the forestry plantation tree of choice in the Azores. An exotic conifer of the cupressus (cypress) family, it's closely related to the fast growing Leylandii of nuisance hedge infamy. So come Twelfth Night, you can stick your tree in a pot and it'll be there as a bigger tree for next year until it gets too big to get in the house. Then you can plant it in your garden and annoy your neighbours.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Quando eu era criança era um alegria ir ao mato buscar árvore de Natal e que cheirinho elas deichavam dentro de casa. Rui Machado.

Christmas Decorators Fremont said...

Great rread thank you