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The Original Living Christmas Tree Company
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Welcome, thank you for visiting The Original Living Christmas Tree Company (TOLCTC).
This site is about live Christmas tree delivery and permanent planting of
Christmas trees in Portland, Oregon. Portland is the only place in the
world where
full-size evergreen trees in pots are delivered, picked up and planted.
(If you live outside of Portland there is information on the last
page of this site with our recommendations on how anyone anywhere can have a living Christmas tree.)
The
tradition of celebrating with decorated lit-up trees indoors during
winter is a beautiful reminder of nature and spirituality. Much
of the feeling imbued by a glistening evergreen is hard to put into
words. The warmth and mirth of a lighted decorated tree is
appreciated from within.
Living Christmas trees are dug out of the ground miles outside of town a few days before delivery so this website is like your friendly neighborhood
Christmas tree lot. Scroll down on all ten pages to check out how Portlanders Christmas trees are delivered and planted. Now Christmas has it all; Spirituality, Santa and the Environment!
Here's how it works: Check out this website for all the information and our mail in order form. A live Christmas tree in a pot is delivered to your door.
After New Years your tree is picked up and planted for you in a
watershed. Order a tree from us, or get your own tree in a pot and give it to us for planting.
We hope you enjoy a 'better than sliced
bread' feeling like... "It's a great idea, something to feel good about. The trees
improve the air so I'm doing my part for global warming. Portlanders are making news by pioneering this. I just
decorate and appreciate a beautiful living tree in
harmony with the environment."
TOLCTC has been covered as news, see stories about us by scrolling down to the bottom of the page.
Thank you. It'd be an honor to serve you. TOLCTC 2008! Woooohooo!
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How to have a living Christmas tree
Before ordering read the care recommendations. Then print, fill out and mail in the order form below. Be sure to email us so we can confirm your order.
The zip codes we deliver to are, 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 out of our delivery area you can pick one up yourself near downtown on Sunday 12/14, see the order form below.
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Living Christmas tree info
Trees: The trees we offer are 4 1/2, 5, 7 & 7 1/2 foot tall. The tips of the trees are around the height of the
size listed, including the pot. The shape of our trees is halfway between a natural sparse tree that
grows in the forest and the sheared cone shape. The images of trees below are examples of the shape. The more natural shape lets more rain water gets to the roots after planting. The types of trees we are offering this year are:
7 1/2' Alberta spruce
7
1/2' Black Hills spruce
7 1/2' Deodar cedar (8 1/2' tree avail. for $15 more)
7 1/2' Douglas fir
7 1/2' Incense cedar
7
1/2' Norway spruce
7 1/2' Scotch pine
7 1/2' Sequoia
7' Nordmann fir
5' Balsam fir
5' Nordmann fir
5'
Serbian spruce
5' Colorado blue spruce
5' Colorado green spruce
4 1/2'
Colorado blue spruce ($5 off)
4 1/2' Colorado green spruce ($5 off)
Price:
The price is $80 for delivery/pickup, $70 if you pickup/return your tree. (Orders received before Halloween are ten dollars
less, so that's $70 for delivery and $60 if you pickup and return your tree. It's possible to work/barter in exchange for all or some of the price.) Deposit
check: A $20 dollar deposit check is required for each rental order. (Your
deposit check is not cashed, when we pick up your tree you get it back.)
Rental
period: You can have your tree inside your home between
Sunday 12/14/08 @ 5pm and New Years DAY evening, Thursday 1/1/09. Make sure it's outside before you go to bed New Years Day evening.
Delivery:
You will get your tree by Sunday, 12/14/8, 5pm. It may arrive a few
days early but wait 'till Sunday 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.
Our delivery vehicle is a 15 foot Budget Rentals moving truck. The zip codes we deliver to are, 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.
Care: Please read and
consider the care instructions. 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.
Pickup: Your
tree needs to be undecorated and outside your home on New Years Day
before you go to bed. We start picking up the trees early morning the day after New Years Day, Friday1/2/9. We finish getting the last of the trees by
the evening of Tuesday 1/6/9. Due to costs involved, if your tree is not
ready for us when we arrive, you'd keep the tree and pot/saucer and we'd keep the deposit check. Or, depending on or situation, we might be
able to come back for free or for a fee, or you could
drop it off to one of our planters.
Special:
If your tree needs to go up or down stairs inside your home consider
ordering a smaller size tree, they weigh 60 pounds. If you're in
charge of finding a tree for a business, call us a fee of around $20
to $50 for delivery and pickup on a certain date and time are
possible. If you live in an apartment or condo with a shared secure main door, pickup your tree or a fee and arrangements for delivery are possible. If you
live outside our delivery area, you'd pickup your tree (and return
it). Here's our email.
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You can use PayPal below instead of mailing a payment check with your order.
(If you use PayPal you'd still mail in an order form and deposit check.)
(The price goes up $10 after Halloween when our early bird special ends.) For
delivery & pickup in our delivery area,
If you'll pickup and return your tree,
it's
$72 ea. ($2.00
pays for PayPal) it's $62 ea. ($2.00 pays
for PayPal)
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Below are photos of trees we are offering this year.
(More/total photos are planned to be posted ASAP.)
While Douglas fir is by far the most popular
cut Christmas tree, those millions of trees are sheared several times to become conical shape. TOLCTC works to provide a Douglas fir tree
that is desirable as a Christmas tree and planting tree, that's how this idea will
become really popular. Instead of shearing, TOLCTC prunes Douglas fir to be a shape that is half way between a tree in the forest and a sheared tree. The outer branches of our Douglas fir don't support the weight of almost all ornaments, the inner branches do. Check out the photos of our Douglas fir immediately below and the decorated ones on the photos page of this website.
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Above, ↑, Douglas firs
Below, ↓, other KINDs
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| 7' Nordmann fir, click to enlarge |
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| 7 1/2' Scotch pine, click to enlarge |
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| 5' Serbian spruce, click to enlarge |
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| 7 1/2' Deodar cedar, click to enlarge |
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| 7 1/2' Sequoia, click to enlarge |
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| 5' Balsam fir, click to enlarge |
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| 7 1/2' Norway spruce, click to enlarge |
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| 4 1/2' and 5' Colorado blue spruce, click to enlarge |
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| 4 1/2' and 5' Colorado green spruce, click to enlarge |
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| 7 1/2' Alberta spruce, click to enlarge |
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| 7 1/2' Black Hills spruce, click to enlarge |
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| 7 1/2' Incense cedar, click to enlarge |
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Branches and needle pics below
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| Serbian spruce, click to enlarge |
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| Nordmann fir, click to enlarge |
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| Norway spruce, click to enlarge |
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| Douglas fir, click to enlarge |
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| Deodar cedar, click to enlarge |
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| Black Hills spruce, click to enlarge |
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| Colorado blue spruce, click to enlarge |
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| Colorado green spruce, click to enlarge |
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| Scotch pine branches, click to enlarge |
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| Incense cedar, click to enlarge |
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| Sequoia, click to enlarge |
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| Alberta spruce, click to enlarge |
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