The Original Living ChristmasTree Company Welcome, thank you for visiting The Original Living Christmas Tree Company (TOLCTC). This site is about potted 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 to grow old and improve our environment. 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. This website is like your friendly neighborhood Christmas tree lot. Scroll down 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, the order form is below. A live Christmas tree in a pot is delivered to your door. After New Years your tree is picked up and planted for you to grow old. We hope you enjoy a 'better than sliced bread' feeling like... "This is a great idea, something to feel good about. The trees improve the air so I'm doing my part for global warming. I just decorate and appreciate a beautiful living tree in harmony with the environment." Check us out in the news, we've been covered locally and nationally, scroll down to the bottom of this page to see. Thank you. It'd be an honor to provide your Christmas tree. TOLCTC 2008! Woooohooo! How to have a living Christmas tree Before ordering read the care recommendations. Then mail in the order form below, just scroll down. 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, (97229 FHHA only). Outside delivery area there'd be a fee from $20 up. If you live in or out of our delivery area you can pick one up yourself near downtown on Sunday 12/14, see the order form below for details. (Picking up yourself is $10 less than delivery.) Living Christmas tree info (see photos and order form too- scroll down) Trees: The tips of the trees are around the height of the size listed below, 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, scroll down. 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 available 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          (recommend for apartment/condo or if you'd pickup and return) 5' Nordmann fir 5' Serbian spruce  (recommend for apartment/condo or if you'd pickup and return) 5' Colorado blue spruce 5' Colorado green spruce 4 1/2' Colorado blue spruce ($5 off)  (recommend for apartment/condo or if you'd pickup and return) 4 1/2' Colorado green spruce ($5 off)       (recommend for apartment/condo or if you'd pickup and return) Price: The price is $80 for delivery, $70 if you pickup and return your tree. Deposit check: A separate $20 dollar deposit check is required with each order. (We don't cash the check, we give it back when we get your tree back.) How long you have your tree: You can have your tree inside your home between Sunday 12/14/08 @ 5pm and New Years DAY evening, Thursday 1/1/09. Put your tree outside your front door before you go to bed New Years Day evening. The limited time indoors is for the health of the tree. (If you want special arrangements email us.) Delivery: You will get your tree by Sunday, 12/14/08, 5pm. It may arrive a few days early (because we can't possibly deliver all of them on one day the 14th). You don't have to be home for delivery. Wait 'till Sunday evening to move your tree inside. Your tree will be put right next to your door. 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, 29- FHHA only, 32, 39. Care: Please read and consider the care recommendations. The following are the basics of care, 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, 1/1/09 pm, before you go to bed. We start picking up the trees early morning Friday1/2/9. We finish getting the last of the trees by Tuesday 1/6/9 9 pm. Due to costs involved, if your tree is not ready for us when we arrive, you'd keep the tree 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 us. When to order: We have around 400 trees to offer all of Portland this year, (because that's how many we have arranged to be planted by landscapers and parks departments and such). Order 'as soon as it's convenient' to select from our largest selection of trees. We start selling out of some kinds of trees in November. We sell out of all trees every year, usually around 12/14. Every year we run an early bird special, orders received by Halloween are $10 off, email us to get on our list for next year. 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, we can deliver on 12/11 during business hours for $25 fee. If you live in an apartment or condo with a shared secure main door, there's no fee just contact us for details. If you live outside our delivery area, you'd pickup your tree (and return it). Here's our email. The top three reasons to have a live Christmas tree. (See our top ten reasons here.) 1. Your tree is the freshest- alive. 2. It's so convenient to order online and just slide it in and out of your home. 3. Your Christmas tree planted in a watershed is a significant personal response to 'global warming'. *****Order form***** Right below here is our order form Click here for the order form to have a living Christmas tree. You can use PayPal below instead of mailing a payment check with your order. (If you use PayPal, still mail in an order form and deposit check.) For us to deliver to you in our delivery area,         If you'll pickup and return your tree,     it's $82 ea. ($2.00 pays for PayPal)                  it's $72 ea. ($2.00 pays for PayPal) If you want delivery guaranteed by Thursday 12/11 at 5pm, you can use the pay pal button below. The charge is for $127. That's; $80 for the tree, $25 for special delivery, $20 for deposit and $2 to cover PayPal. We would give you a check for $20 when we get the tree back to return your deposit. You'd need to paper mail in the order form and email us, include that you're getting 12/11 delivery. Thank You. Below are photos of trees we are offering this year. 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. The outer branches of our Douglas fir don't support the weight of 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. Image:  Above, ↑, Douglas firs Below, ↓, other KINDs 7' Nordmann fir, click to enlarge 7 1/2' Scotch pine, click to enlarge 5' Serbian spruce, click to enlarge 7 1/2' Deodar cedar, click to enlarge 7 1/2' Sequoia, click to enlarge 5' Balsam fir, click to enlarge 7 1/2' Norway spruce, click to enlarge 4 1/2' and 5' Colorado blue spruce, click to enlarge 4 1/2' and 5' Colorado green spruce, click to enlarge 7 1/2' Alberta spruce, click to enlarge 7 1/2' Black Hills spruce, click to enlarge 7 1/2' Incense cedar, click to enlarge Branches and needle pics below Serbian spruce, click to enlarge Nordmann fir, click to enlarge Norway spruce, click to enlarge Douglas fir, click to enlarge Deodar cedar, click to enlarge Black Hills spruce, click to enlarge Colorado blue spruce, click to enlarge Colorado green spruce, click to enlarge Scotch pine branches, click to enlarge Incense cedar, click to enlarge Sequoia, click to enlarge Alberta spruce, click to enlarge Click here to see news stories about TOLCTC. email: office@livingchristmastrees.org next page top