Old Summit

Fresh Locally Grown Trees

• Native Species and Others
  • Almost a dozen varieties
  • Grown in the Santa Cruz Mountains
• Sustainably Harvested – PATCHEN Color Spot Method
  • Guarantees the tree lives on indefinitely
• Delivered The Same Day
  • Harvested Today
  • Water-stand installed Today
  • Delivery and setup Today
• Setup & Decoration Options
  • For Home or Business
  • Inside or Outside
  • Entire Bay Area
    • San Francisco to Carmel Highlands
    • Santa Cruz to the Central Valley
• Pick Up & Recycle
  • We pick up at your convenience
  • We recycle lights, plastic, and metal parts
  • We chip the rest to go back into the soil

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Premium Wreaths

• Many Sizes & Shapes to choose from
• Made from high-elevation frost-hardened Noble Fir
  • Needles are plump and full of moisture
  • Fresh and full of forest aroma
  • Average 22″ wreath weighs 4-5 lbs
• Non-polymer dipped
• Will last weeks or months with minimal care

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High-Quality Garland & Greens

• Western Red Cedar from the Pacific Northwest is best
  • High-elevation foliage – lasts longer
  • Tightly woven for strength
  • Fresh forest aroma lasts for weeks
  • Holds its shape well past the Holiday season
  • Delivered fresh and kept refrigerated until sold
• Boughs of other species
  • Cut daily
  • Delivered fresh.

Other Tree Choices
(Big-Box Stores or Nursery Parking Lots)

• They all come from the same Tree Factories in Oregon
  • Clear-cut harvested to the bare ground
  • Stumps dug up with big tractors
  • Thousands of acres are cleared in a few weeks
• Trees are stacked in the fields
  • Takes hours, waiting for helicopter pickup
  • Thrown in a net to fly a few miles to a loading station
  • Bailed by big machines to fit 700 trees on each truck
• The trip to California
  • Loaded on a big truck for the next few days
    (… depending on snow at Siskiyou Summit) 
  • Unloaded in store parking lot for a few days, or weeks
    (… perishables in a parking lot – rain or shine?)

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• Of course, plastic ones from China are always an option
  • More expensive than REAL trees
  • Usually only used for two years
  • Present serious fire hazard
  • Environmentally unfriendly.

Discount Wreaths

• Costco / Trader Joe’s Variety
  • Weight is half that of Premium wreaths (moisture content)
  • Moisture is where the aroma comes from
  • Made from whatever foliage is available
  • Often polymer dipped as a preservative
    • Keeps the needles from falling off
    • Destroys the aroma

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Plastic ones from China can serve as dust collectors
in the off-season.

Questionable Quality from Unreliable Sources

• Locally made garland is generally
  • Unknown variety
  • Lacks aroma
  • Drys out quickly

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