These twenty-four hour period , you’re able to hire just about everything — Segways , leprechauns , little hoi polloi , sheep , dogs . And here in the UK , a very clever and environmentally concerned businessman come up up with a bright idea : Rent out Christmas trees for the vacation time of year .
The whole thing works like this : The renter orders a tree , choosing between three models ( the Fraser fir , the Norway spruce , and the Nordmann fir tree ) , in size between 5 and 8 feet tall . The tree is then delivered to the customer ’s door in a flowerpot , most of its roots intact , and bearing particular tree food for thought that will keep it healthy during its stint indoors . When Christmas is over , the presents all opened , the seminal fluid of familial angst seed , grown and harvested , and life settles back down to normal , the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree are take back to the wild , where they can be enjoyed by wildlife and humans who favour their tree in the ground for another class .
Martin Cake ( pictured ) is the man behind the architectural plan , the self - styledChristmas Tree Manwho spent 20 years as a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree surgeon before starting the society .
He launched the byplay in belated 2008 , and currently possess a 500 - tree farm in Dorset . bar aver that his dream is a Christmas that sees the survival of all tree — a tree , his website say , is for lifespan , not just for Christmas . And renting a living tree is a positive step towards conserve the environment , and is even safer than cut trees — they’re less likely to angle over , owing to the intemperate pot they live in , and less likely to trip up fervidness , since they ’re not all dried out . Even sound , minimal shedding .
The trees actually spend most of their life in the flock they arrive at your door in and are kept alert by a dripping - provender water supply system . If you become attached to a particular tree , Cake will give chase it so you’re able to rent it again the following year . Once it gets too big for house use , which will ultimately happen , the trees can move on to big environs , such as school and businesses .
Thus far , the panel is out on whether we ’ll be ordering our Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree from the Christmas Tree Man . My husband is n’t yet convince that my motif are actually environmental concern and not just because I see this cool thing on the Internet . But it ’s either this , or I ’m primp the true cat in green feel and sticking a star on his oral sex . And evidently , it is n’t a mo premature to begin thinking about where our tree will be come from — without the dam of Thanksgiving , Christmas madness really started flow back in other October here in the UK . They take these things very gravely over here . * * * * * Does a service of process like this exist in the US ? Anyone ever tried it ?
