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Fresh Cut Trees At Home Depot
For abounding families, Thanksgiving Day marks the actionable alpha of the Christmas-tree-hunting season.
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That could beggarly a cruise to Home Depot, Lowe’s or the Macon State Farmers Market.
But some families like to booty a alley cruise to a cut-your-own timberline farm, adequate the acquaintance and the attitude of the outing.
You can acquisition several varieties of copse beyond Middle Georgia. Among them: Leyland cypresses, accepted because they don’t afford their needles; Virginia pines; the bluish Carolina azure cypresses; Southern cedars; and the larger, added big-ticket Deodar cedars.
Be abiding to focus on the absolute acme of the timberline and how it will attending aback home. Copse tend to attending beyond at home than they do out in the field.
If you cut your own Christmas timberline now, it should aftermost through Christmas provided that you accumulate it in water. Put the basal of the timberline in baptize as anon as you get home and accumulate beginning baptize in the stand. (It’s a acceptable abstraction to accomplish a beginning cut through the timberline butt to advice baptize consumption.)
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Here’s a sampling of cut-your-own Christmas timberline farms beyond the midstate. Most of the farms backpack several varieties, and copse are about alone priced. It’s not a bad abstraction to alarm advanced aboriginal afore you arch out:
BIBB
Double B Acreage Christmas Trees, 8511 Knoxville Road, Lizella. 808-5271. Leyland and Murray cypress, Carolina sapphire. Opens Nov. 24, afterwards lunch, again Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-dark. Closed Monday.
CRISP
Southern Christmas Timberline Farms, 3452 Pateville Road, Cordele. (229) 276-1875. Open daily, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Leyland and Murray cypress, red cedar, Blue Ice, Virginia pine, Carolina sapphire.
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LAURENS
Boggy Branch Farms, 2130 Hobbs Road, Dexter. (478) 875-4139. Leyland and Murray cypress, Virginia pine, Eastern red cedar. Opens 2 p.m. Thursday, again Monday-Thursday, 5 p.m.-dark, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-dark, Sunday, 1:30-5:30 p.m.
MONROE
Klaus Christmas Trees, 4684 Highway 83 South, Culloden. 955-3330. Opens 9 a.m. Nov. 25, again Monday through Sunday, aurora to dusk. Virginia pine, Leyland cypress.
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Roberts Christmas Timberline Farm, Highway 49 South, Byron, two afar south of Interstate 75 headed against Fort Valley. 956-5325. Open now, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Leyland and Murray cypress, Virginia pine, cedar, Carolina sapphire, Blue Ice.
PULASKI
Our Cotton Pickin’ Christmas Timberline Farm, 120 Cordele Highway, Hawkinsville. (478) 230-3646. Opens Thursday afternoon, again 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily. Leyland cypress and Carolina sapphire, some Fraser furs.
TWIGGS
Sandy Creek Christmas Timberline Farm, 5889 Hammock Road, 741-8798. Leyland cypress, Virginia pine, Carolina sapphire, red cedar, Fraser fur, Deodar cedar. Open Monday-Friday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-dark; Saturday, 9 a.m.-dark.
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WILCOX
Parrish Christmas Timberline Farm, 874 Highway 129 South, Abbeville, (229) 423-7868. Open Monday-Friday, 4:30 p.m.-dark, Saturday-Sunday, noon-dark. Leyland and Murray cypress, Carolina sapphire, Blue Ice.
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