Appetizer: Puff pastry, homemade tapenade, mix it all together and create a beautiful crispy Christmas tree for your ...

Big John Livaditis missed the birth of his second son because he was in Canada on Dec. 8, 1957, looking at Christmas trees. He was busy searching for the best firs, spruces and pines to bring home ...

Ironically, what made the spruce a fantastic Christmas tree also made it structurally weak: The branches that spanned 46 feet in diameter left lots of knots in the wood, so the beams were mainly used ...

What good is a fiber optic self-lighting Christmas tree if it flashes so fast it will put you into an epileptic attack? The answer is “Not very good”, if you ask [Mads Nielsen] a.k.a [EcProjects].

Today's faux firs can be several stories tall. These big, artificial trees start with a steel skeleton. Rollers bend steel tubing into arcs. They'll be joined to form the base of the framework.

Many Christmas tree purchasers have Oregon or North Carolina to thank for the festive firs sparkling in their windows during the holiday season. That’s according to a U.S. News analysis of tree ...