Across the US, Christmas Trees May Be Harder to Find This Year

Whether you like to celebrate the holidays before or after Thanksgiving, it might be time to start looking at Christmas trees if you are planning to get one. Executive director of the American Christmas Tree Association, Jami Warner, spoke out on how extreme weather events like wildfires, droughts, and floods have made this an especially challenging season for Christmas tree growers. Because of this issue, it is expected that the sale of Christmas trees, whether real or synthetic, is expected to go up in price by 20%.

Jami Warner stated: “”The great majority of our artificial Christmas trees are manufactured in China, and Christmas trees and pretty much every other consumer good is languishing either out at sea or hasn’t shipped yet…I think it’s very important for consumers to, if they see something they like, to buy it right away…This year, I think people will be able to celebrate Christmas with their families again and with their friends, and no one is going to notice if you don’t have that very, very perfect Christmas tree. Really, there are no such thing as bad Christmas trees — they’re all beautiful.”

Source: NPR