General info on renting a living Christmas tree...
TOLCTC makes it convenient for you to have a live tree. You don't have to haul it around or buy a pot or have a place to plant it. TOLCTC takes care of all that for you. We deliver your tree to your door, you keep it inside for eighteen days then we pick it up and it gets planted to grow old. This is our Sixteenth year. Over two thousand trees have been planted by parks departments, schools, churches, landscapers, private landowners, Metro, watershed councils, friends groups and SOLV. See the link to news stories about us at the bottom of this page. Living Christmas Trees are planted in bunches all over the Northwest where they grow old and improve the environment.
Trees: the trees we offer are 4 1/2, 6 and 7 1/2 foot tall. Tree sizes include the pot. The tips of the trees are around the height of the size listed. This year the types of trees we are offering are: Balsam fir, Douglas fir, Fraser fir, Grand fir, Nordmann fir, Turkish fir, Norway spruce, Serbian spruce and Scotch pine. The shape of tree we offer is halfway between a natural sparse tree that grows in the forest and a sheered, dense foliage Christmas tree. The trees semi-dense / semi-sparse shape ensures a high rate of survival after planting.
Price: The rental price is $75 for delivery. If you pick up and return your tree the price is $65.
Deposit check: Each order would include a $15 dollar deposit check. (Your deposit check is not cashed, you get it back when we get the tree back.)
Rental period: The longest you can have your tree inside your home between Friday 12/12/08, 9pm and Thursday 1/1/9 before you go to bed. The limited rental period gives the trees the best chance of survival after planting.
Delivery: You will get your tree by Friday evening, 12/12/8, 9pm. It may arrive a few days early but wait till Friday evening to move your tree inside. Your tree will be put right next to your door. You don't have to be home for delivery. You don't have to lift it. Slide your tree inside. Read and consider our care recommendations before ordering and when your tree arrives. Our truck is a 15 foot yellow truck, so expect a moving truck to be coming by your home.
Care: Please read and consider the care instructions on this website. The following are the basics of what's in the care recommendations. No; tinsel, flock (fake snow) or big hot colored lights. The small, usually clear, pencil erasure sized lights are fine. Keep tree as cool as possible- put it near a window if possible and turn the heat down when not at home. Printed care instructions come with your tree, you'd read them then too.
Your tree needs to be undecorated and outside your house on New Years Day before you go to bed. We start picking up the trees Friday morning, 1/2/9. We finish getting the last of the trees by Tuesday evening 1/6/9. Due to costs involved, if your tree is not ready for us when we arrive, you would forfeit your deposit, you can either keep the tree and the pot. We might be able to come back by and get it or may ask for a fee or you could drop it off to a planter.
Special: If your tree needs to go up or down stairs inside your home order a smaller size tree, they weigh 60 pounds. If you're in charge of finding a tree for a business, call us a fee around $50 for delivery and pickup on a certain date and time are possible. If you live in an apartment or condo pickup your tree or call us about delivery, a fee and arrangements are possible. If you live outside our delivery area, you'd pickup your tree (and return it).
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Order with us by Halloween for the best selection.
To order a living Christmas tree; 1. read over the website 2. print fill out and mail in the order form 3. email us. In the email include your name address and phone numbers and what kind of tree you are ordering.
Here's the zip codes we deliver to, 972: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 06 (not south of Flavel), 09, 10 (not north of Vaughn), 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 (not south of Taylors Ferry), 21, 23 (not south of Taylors Ferry), 25, 27, 32, 39. If you live in our delivery area you can get any tree delivered. If you live out of our delivery you can pay a delivery fee or come pick one up yourself on Tues. 12/11, see info below.
If you don't live in Portland, there's info on the last page of this website about how you can do a live Christmas tree. Go to the last page of this website to read how, "anyone anywhere can do a living Christmas tree". (What TOLCTC does is unique in the world, there is a similar service in San Francisco fuf.net.)
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| 6' Balsam fir (click to enlarge, then scroll down) |
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| 4 1/2' Douglas fir (click to enlarge, then scroll down) |
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| 6' Nordman fir (click to enlarge, then scroll down) |
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| 6' Norway spruce (click to enlarge, then scroll down) |
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| 6' Serbian spruce (click to enlarge, then scroll down) |
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| Douglas fir 7 1/2 foot size. (Tip of tree 7 to 7 1/2 foot high, including pot.) This is the tree planters want most. It's the State Tree of Oregon, the only tree native to Oregon we offer. All the trees look different because they aren't sheared so the artists image above is what we shoot for, sparse enough to transplant and full enough for a Christmas tree. The outer branches aren't cut and don't support ornaments, so you'd hang ornaments on the inner branches. Some of the Douglas fir we buy are from cut Christmas tree fields, but we dig them, so if you want to save a tree from being cut, a Douglas is your best bet. Photos of actual Douglas firs we offer below. |
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| 7 1/2 foot Nordmann fir (Tip between 7 and 7 1/2 foot hig including pot) |
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| 7 1/2 foot Fraser fir (Tip between 7 and 7 1/2 foot hig including pot) Bad photo, nice tree. |
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| Scotch pine 7 1/2 foot size- tips between 7 and 7 1/2' high, including pot. |
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| Balsam fir branches (click to enlarge) |
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| Douglas fir branches (click to enlarge) |
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| Nordmann fir branches (click to enlarge) |
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| Norway spruce branches (click to enlarge) |
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| Serbian spruce branches (click to enlarge) |
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| Fraser fir branches (click to enlarge) |
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