Christmas trees

Finding the right tree in a range of 166

A long list of trees is only useful if you can cut it down fast. This department can be sliced four ways. The height filter on the left narrows to one size; the height pages do the same with a note on ceiling clearance. The price bands run under £50, £50 to £100, £100 to £200 and £200 and over, and every figure already includes VAT and delivery. The colour pages separate the 57 green trees from the snowy, white, black and grey ones. And the subcategories above the grid split the range by construction: pre-lit, unlit, snowy and flocked, slim and pencil, fibre optic, tabletop and twig.

What the numbers on each tree mean

Height is measured from the floor to the top tip with the stand fitted. Width is the diameter at the widest point, usually the bottom ring of branches; a full 6ft tree is around 1.2m across, a pencil tree under 60cm. Tip count counts the ends of the branches. It is the figure that tells you how dense the tree is at a given height: around 500 tips at 6ft is a standard tree, 1,200 is full, and anything past 2,000 is very full and heavy. Branch material is either PE (moulded from a real branch, used for the outer tips on realistic trees), PVC (cut foil, cheaper and good for bulk inside the tree) or a mix, and the listing says which.

Pre-lit, unlit and lit by design

Thirty-eight trees arrive with the lights already wired through the branches, most of them warm white and most with a mains transformer; two run from batteries. Twenty are unlit, which is the cheaper way to buy the same tree if you already own lights or want a particular colour. Thirty-eight more are twig, microdot and dewdrop trees where the lights are the point: a bare white or black frame carrying up to 1,700 LEDs, used as a second tree in a hall or on a porch. Fibre optic trees light from the trunk outward and change colour through a cycle.

Suppliers

The trees come from Festive (112 of them), Premier Decorations (33), Snow Time (14) and Lumineo, all established UK seasonal suppliers. The brand is on every card and the maker's own code is on the product page, so a tree can be checked against the same model elsewhere before you buy.

Delivery and returns on trees

Delivery is free to any UK mainland address whatever the size. A 6ft hinged tree ships in one box by tracked parcel; 7.5ft and 8ft trees and the heavier pre-lit pines go by two-person courier, still free. Trees can be returned within 14 days of delivery if they are complete and repacked; anything damaged in transit is replaced at our cost.