Marketing

NC Christmas Trees

Quick Facts

• 2004 Christmas Tree sales in North Carolina totaled in excess of $100 million Dollars.
  
• North Carolina produces over 18% of the real Christmas trees in the United States.
  
• North Carolina has over 1,500 Christmas Tree growers, with approximately 42 million trees growing on over 30,000 acres.
  
• The North Carolina Christmas Tree industry in ranked second in the nation, behind Oregon.
  
• North Carolina Fraser Fir has been judged the Nations Best through the National Christmas Tree Association and chosen for the White House nine times (more than any other species)....1971, 1973, 1982, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2005
  
• The 2005 While Houe Tree will come from Smokey Holler Christmas Tree Farm in Laurel Springs
  
• 96% of the Christmas Trees produced in North Carolina are Fraser fir.
  
• Ashe, Avery, Alleghany, Watauga, and Jackson counties produce 88% of North Carolina's Christmas trees.
  
• It takes as long as 12 years to grow a tree to an average retail height of 6-7 ft.
  
• The average 6-7 foot Fraser fir Christmas tree has been visited by the grower more than 100 times during it's life.