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Select and lower bushes at Pipe Creek Farm are priced at roughly $12 per foot.
These trying to proceed or begin a vacation custom can kick off the festivities by hand-picking and chopping down their very own Christmas bushes. Whereas South Texas might not look like a chief location for evergreen foliage, these 4 San Antonio-area farms have been devoted to rising and promoting vacation bushes for years.
Happily, the farms provide saws to patrons, so there isn’t any want to fret about uprooting your entire tree like The Griswolds.
Pipe Creek Tree Farm At Pipe Creek Tree Farm, yuletide lumberjacks can select to cut down their very own Christmas bushes or take residence a pre-cut North Carolinian Fraser Fir. People trying to protect their vacation cheer even have the choice of buying a residing Christmas tree that may be planted and nurtured after the large day passes. Select-and-cut bushes are priced at roughly $12 per foot and the Fraser Firs begin at $69.95. The farm is now open each day 11 a.m. to five:45 p.m. and will probably be closed Thanksgiving day. If visiting on a weekend, guests can even partake in free hayrides. 805 Phils Street, Pipe Creek, (210) 426-6191, pipecreekchristmastrees.com.
Devine Acres Farm Devine Acres Farm is taking its Christmas tree farm to the subsequent degree this yr by remodeling its fields right into a Christmas CountryFest. Starting Nov. 24, guests can lower down their very own bushes or pick the right pre-cut tree to take residence for $15-$22 per foot. They can also partake in a plethora of vacation actions arrange all through the farm, together with visits with Santa, Christmas photo-ops, specialty food and drinks, play areas, a petting zoo and extra. Admission and tickets to Christmas CountryFest are required for tree area entry, and as much as $50 of the charges could be utilized in direction of the worth of a Christmas tree. 944 FM 2200, Devine, (830) 665-9730, devineacresfarm.com.
Seiler’s Christmas Tree Farm Seiler’s Christmas Tree Farm in Seguin has a wide range of home-grown Christmas bushes able to be lower and stored for the vacations. Accessible bushes embody Virginia Pines, Loblolly Pines, Leyland Cypresses and Carolina Sapphire Cypresses, all priced equally at $10 per foot. Most are pre-priced and labeled. The farm can be providing vacation photo-ops, a playground and a concession stand. The farm will open after Thanksgiving, with weekend hours from 9 a.m. to six p.m. and Monday by means of Friday after 4 p.m. 4100 Jakes Colony Street, Seguin, (830) 303-4130, seilerschristmastrees.com.
Jenschke Orchards This pick-your-own orchard in Fredericksburg affords seasonal harvestings of fruits, pumpkins and, after all, Christmas bushes. Opening this Friday, the farm affords Murray and Arizona Cypresses as cut-your-own bushes, in addition to pre-cut Noble, Nordmann and Douglas Firs. Select-and-cut bushes are priced at $100 every, whereas pre-cut bushes vary from $100 to $500 — and a few tower 12 ft excessive. Throughout the vacation season, Jenschke Orchards will probably be open each day from midday to six p.m. Sunday by means of Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturdays. 8301 East U.S. Hwy. 290, Fredericksburg, (830) 997-8422, bestfredericksburgpeaches.com.
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