Firs sale
Why the Christmas trees are greener this year
In 2021 the fir trees are significantly greener than in previous years
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The sale of Christmas trees is in full swing. If you look closely, you will see a difference: Compared to previous years, the fir trees are greener. How come And: How expensive are the Christmas trees this year.
Every year the Germans bring a Christmas tree into their homes. Around 29 million trees must be felled for this, because very few fir trees are planted after the festive season and are in the living room with their roots in the pot until then. Nordmann firs are particularly popular, they make up around 75 percent of all Christmas trees. It is followed by the blue spruce with a market share of around 15 percent.
If you take a closer look at the trees on offer, you may see a difference to previous years. In 2021 the fir trees will be much greener, reports the “SWRReason for this: It rained significantly more this year than usual. The large cultivation areas in Germany are in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and the Sauerland in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Overall, the weather stations recorded more rain than in previous years. The summer months in particular were the rainiest in ten years. The extreme rainfalls from Tief “Bernd” also played a major role in this. Winter 2020/2021 was also wetter. “In the summer of 2021, an average of around 310 liters per square meter fell nationwide and thus 30 percent more precipitation than the average for the reference period 1961-1990 (239 liters per square meter). Compared with the period 1991-2020, the increase was 29 percent”, writes the German Weather Service. “With this, the summer of 2021 ended the three-year period of excessively dry summers and joined the ranks of the rain-rich since measurements began in 1881. Nature thanked us for this with unusually lush green meadows and forests.”
In terms of price, little is happening with the trees. After strong price increases in recent years, the level for one meter of Nordmann fir has leveled off at 21 to 27 euros, reports “RTLAccording to this, there were some new customers in 2020 who bought a tree for the first time in the course of the lockdown. “We assume that many who bought a tree for the first time last year will be repeat offenders this year”, says Saskia Blümel, managing director of the Federal Association of Christmas Tree Manufacturers, “RTL“The trend is clearly going towards smaller trees. Blümel believes that this is due to the shrinking living space and single households.
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