The tradition to make out New Year's holiday was so fallen in love by branches and small trees of coniferous breeds to Russians that it became difficult to provide night since December 31 for January 1 without fragrant prickly beauty and Christmas decorations. Much want to prolong feeling of holiday, as long as possible to keep New Year tree.
New Year tree: how to keep tree fresh for a long time
- It is natural if you want to keep longer New Year's fir-tree, it is necessary to buy it as it is possible later. Usually on city markets the cut-down coniferous trees appear at the beginning of December, but it is recommended to make purchase not earlier than before two-three of days before New year.
- New Year's "fir-tree" - concept conditional, many understand various coniferous trees for decoration of festive interior as it. Buy available pine or more expensive fir (some of their types on markets can call "the Danish fir-trees"). The common spruce will stay in house conditions much less, quickly will begin to be showered, especially without water.
- The fir-tree brought from the street needs to get used to room temperature. Take tree some time in the hall at outer door.
- Update cut (corner - 45 degrees) the cut-down tree hatchet or hacksaw, exempt trunk bottom from bark on 8-10 cm.
- You can keep fir-tree longer if establish it in bucket with sand or loam. Stock up with this filler in advance or look in hardware and flower stores.
- Water sand for New Year tree with slightly added some salt water at the rate of 1 l of liquid on sand bucket.
- Regularly water tree, without allowing sand to dry up. Time in couple of days use nutritious solution: tablespoon of granulated sugar, tablet of acetilsalicylic acid, gelatin pinch on 3 l of otstoyanny tap water.
- From time to time spray needles with water that needles were not showered. Great way as long as possible to keep New Year's fir-tree is to stop the choice on coniferous tree in container. In this case it is necessary to buy plant from the seller with good reputation and to make sure that the root system is not damaged, branches have kept elasticity.
- Take out fir-tree in container after New Year's holidays to the cool placement, for example, on loggia. It will be possible to prikopat in the shady place of the seasonal dacha in its spring, without taking out from container.
- Easy way several years to have near at hand beautiful decoration of New Year's interior and to forget about problem of preservation of New Year tree – artificial coniferous tree. High-quality modern imitations look extremely attractively. The fir-tree artificial can become the basic decorative element of holiday, and for distribution on the house of unique coniferous air there will be enough wreath or bouquet from live pine branches.
Useful tips
- Do not close bucket with sand or loam various decorative elements if you want to keep fir-tree longer.
- Original scenery or cachepot will help to give to the holder attractive look.
- Do not spray needles with water if on fir-tree electric daisies are hung up!