{"id":3938,"date":"2021-04-19T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2021-04-19T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:34:32","slug":"the-great-tree-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/the-great-tree-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Tree Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you buy a fresh Christmas tree? I do. Still a traditionalist. December 2020 was a &#8220;stay at home&#8221; year which meant Christmas tree shopping. Boy did I get a surprise, not just sticker shock &#8211; but finally on our third stop I found a tree \u201cI could live with\u201d. I tell this story because the scarcity of all evergreens is scary. Not just cute sheared Christmas trees, but 6\u2019, 7\u2019, 8\u2019, and up, Colorados, Black Hills, even Chamys (can\u2019t spell that word \u2013 it would make a great password). Soon Arborvitae? Then\u2026? Get them as soon as you can and lock them up!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"000_2751_683\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/000_2751_683.jpg\" alt=\"colorado spruce\" width=\"683\" height=\"455\" data-id=\"3944\" data-init-width=\"683\" data-init-height=\"455\" data-width=\"683\" data-height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately plant material in general is going to be scarce.<\/strong> 2020 was a boom year for \u201cgen-whatever\u201d to plant or get planted for yard fun. 2021 is going to be identical \u2013 just much harder. No, not harder \u2013 \u201cmore interesting\u201d, as Tim would say. You might want to come to pick plants with a couple of options. Knowing which is more important: size? color? or location. If your customer really has to have \u201cTHAT\u201d plant make sure they know, they may have to wait for \u201cTHAT\u201d plant to grow up a little!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"000_0528_683\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/000_0528_683.jpg\" alt=\"chamaecyparis\" width=\"683\" height=\"455\" data-id=\"3943\" data-init-width=\"683\" data-init-height=\"455\" data-width=\"683\" data-height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are prepared!! We are working hard to make sure your job is easier. Remember: dull is well, just dull, but \u201cmore interesting\u201d has sparkle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"roth1\" src=\"\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/roth1.png\" alt=\"Kim Roth\" width=\"600\" height=\"175\" data-id=\"3015\" data-init-width=\"600\" data-init-height=\"175\" data-width=\"600\" data-height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you buy a fresh Christmas tree? I do. Still a traditionalist. December 2020 was a &#8220;stay at home&#8221; year which meant Christmas tree shopping. Boy did I get a surprise, not just sticker shock &#8211; but finally on our third stop I found a tree \u201cI could live with\u201d. I tell this story because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,13,22,6],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-posts","category-business-tips","category-landscaping","category-plants","tag-kim-roth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3970,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christensensplantcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}