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Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:04 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
As per thread title.
After getting one this evening if anyone knows where i can get a good one locally. Last years died after about 10 minutes
Saw some advertised in cliveger if anyones been there? Red lees farm i think?
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:14 pm
by houseboy
Best place for Christmas trees? In the ground still growing. Get a good artificial one. You might pay a lot but it lasts for years and if you get a good one they look real enough and make less mess. We had real ones for years but then about 5/6 years ago we bought an artificial for about £120 (and we got that cheap) but after about 3 years it had paid for itself and now we don't have to keep forking out and there are no pine needles in June.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:15 pm
by houseboy
By the way it fools the cat, it was climbing it last night, bloody thing.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:29 pm
by Quickenthetempo
Huntroyde nurseries just off Padiham Bypass.
It's run by Pete Shirtcliffe who owns Burnley memoribilia.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:29 pm
by bezzybfc
Missus got one from Aldi for £15 about 4/5 ft
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:49 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Artificial ones are ok. But i cant be arsed taking up stirage space for something i use for 3 weeks. Plus real ones smell better.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:53 pm
by Wile E Coyote
Norway
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:16 pm
by Funkydrummer
Up a fairy's bottom.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:22 pm
by Dazzler
Towneley garden centre ?
Edit: Oh and the one further up towards Pike Hill?
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:31 pm
by Loyalclaret
Spring wood or further up Red Lee rd near junction for Hurstwood, Going Dutch in Nelson.
The efforts in Wilkinson’s today looked em, erm...
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:49 pm
by Steve-Harpers-perm
Lea Brook Garden Centre in Rawtenstall.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 5:59 pm
by longside72
Crown point , take a saw and pick your own !
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:04 pm
by Wile E Coyote
apologies, Norway is hardly local.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:22 pm
by 1968claret
Used to be a good garden centre on ighten Hill lane that did good Xmas trees
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:41 pm
by Bfc
Get a tree and wreaths from Red Lees farm, which is run by Dave. His place is well signposted on your left from Burnley.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:21 pm
by 2 Bee Holed
A woods?
Go on I give in. Is this a question or a statement?
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:29 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Wile E Coyote wrote:Norway
Thats only local if you live in Norway... or possibly other parts of scandinavia depending on definition of local
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:37 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Dazzler wrote:Towneley garden centre ?
Edit: Oh and the one further up towards Pike Hill?
Went to towneley on way home. Gates closed at 16:45, 15 mins before advertised closing time with 4 or 5 cars behind me probably expecting same.
Rung up. Was entertaining at least!
'Are you open?'
No we close at 5
'but it isnt 5'...
I know but we close at 5....
'How much are your trees if I come back tomorrow?'
They are half price.
'So how much is that?'
Well if it was 50 its now 25...
(Great maths
) 'So whats the price range?'
No idea...
Drove up the road to the other one mentioned along with half the cars behind me, picked one he'd loaded it in my car and I'd paid for it before Towneley was meant to have closed!
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:38 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
longside72 wrote:Crown point , take a saw and pick your own !
Was contemplating it. My uncle genuinely used to do it every year. Tight *******
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:39 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:01 pm
by Hendrickxz
cricketfieldclarets wrote:Went to towneley on way home. Gates closed at 16:45, 15 mins before advertised closing time with 4 or 5 cars behind me probably expecting same.
Rung up. Was entertaining at least!
'Are you open?'
No we close at 5
'but it isnt 5'...
I know but we close at 5....
'How much are your trees if I come back tomorrow?'
They are half price.
'So how much is that?'
Well if it was 50 its now 25...
(Great maths
) 'So whats the price range?'
No idea...
Drove up the road to the other one mentioned along with half the cars behind me, picked one he'd loaded it in my car and I'd paid for it before Towneley was meant to have closed!
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:04 pm
by Hendrickxz
That'd be Springwood Nurseries. Very nice obliging people, really helpful. We were doing some working the garden in the summer involving heavy bags of pebbles. I was incapacitated at the time and the guys loaded everything in the car for us on about three successive visits. Just looking for somebody to unloadthem at the other end now!
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:10 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Hendrickxz wrote:That'd be Springwood Nurseries. Very nice obliging people, really helpful. We were doing some working the garden in the summer involving heavy bags of pebbles. I was incapacitated at the time and the guys loaded everything in the car for us on about three successive visits. Just looking for somebody to unloadthem at the other end now!
Tell them to get in and put the child lock on
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:30 pm
by Boll ewood
Ossy mills have them. £ 20/30/40 depending on size.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:31 pm
by MyRightFoot
Get mine locally from a lad in simonstone! Hardman’s Christmas Tree’s is the name on Facebook. They are up on Trapp Lane on the farm on the right hand side. Pump house farm Bb127JD.. Last years lasted till new year and it comes with a free stand that allows you to put water in.. also does free local delivery I think!
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:58 pm
by conyoviejo
There's one for sale in the garden centre in Towneley for just £1300..
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:12 pm
by tybfc
O/P got it spot on with the Red Lees Farm in Cliviger.
Bought one last weekend and it is brilliant according to the wife, kid and dog.
As much as I hate Christmas.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:32 am
by ChrisG
I purchased a 6' real tree from Morrisons on Saturday. £15. It's super.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:26 pm
by Falcon
Got a real one from Spring Wood last year. Minimal needle droppage and still looked as good as the day we bought it when we chucked it out in January. In fact, felt a bit of a shame to be getting rid it looked that healthy.
Re: Best local place for real xmas trees
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 4:48 pm
by biggles
local? that would depend on where you live, wouldn't it? burnley is anything but local to lots of us on here
