Why Danish Christmas trees are considered the best on the New Year's market in Europe

Long gone are the days when, on the eve of the New Year, people walked into the forest for a Christmas tree. Today, most New Year trees sold at holiday markets are grown in special nurseries. Europe in this sense is the trendsetter of New Year's fashion. Here, for several decades, the most popular Danish spruce. Let's see why they are so common among Europeans and why they can be increasingly found in our country.

Most Danish spruce nurseries are located on the Jutland Peninsula. It is here that millions of plants of the species Abies Nordmanniana, Nordman fir are grown. It turns out that from a botanical point of view, this is not a spruce at all, but a fir. It is interesting that it was discovered and first described in the Caucasus in 1835, and later samples of this plant were used to create New Year tree nurseries in Denmark. There are quite a lot of them, and for some Danes, growing New Year trees is a real family business.

A native of the Caucasus has taken root perfectly on the Jutland Peninsula. The marine climate with moderately warm summers and rather mild winters, timely precipitation and high humidity led to the fact that Nordman fir became the main tree in the Danish New Year tree nurseries. It perfectly tolerates the most extreme frosts and stormy winds for these places, and also has a high growth rate compared to other conifers.

For a long time, Danish specialists selected plants from the most correct external form from an aesthetic point of view. As a result, parental specimens possessing a perfectly symmetrical crown and dense branches were used to plant the plantation. Fir is propagated here in a vegetative way, by rooting part of the mother plant. Thus, they are exact genetic copies of their parents and inherit from them not only varietal affiliation, as in seed propagation, but also ideal external parameters.

Before going on sale, the Danish New Year tree grows for about 10 years. Each tree has its own individual number and is grown using environmentally neutral technology, without the use of potent chemicals. Due to the fact that it is fir, not spruce, trees have soft branches, and their needles do not prick.

In addition to the perfect shape and the absence of thorns, these Danish spruces are able to stand indoors until the end of the holidays: they retain their original appearance, do not crumble and do not turn yellow.