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Creating Warm Memories On Cold Days
TREE VARIETIES
Douglas Fir
Caanan Fir
White Spruce
Serbian Spruce
Colorado Blue Spruce
Concolor Fir
Balsam Fir

Here we see the beautiful Douglas Fir. Because of
its classic triangular Christmas Tree shape, the Douglas Fir is
the preferred tree of the Bell's Christmas Tree Webmaster, Terry.
The needles are dark green 1 to 1 1/2 inches long, soft to the
touch and radiate out in all directions from the branch.

The Caanan Fir is a short needled tree known
for it's wonderful fragrance and excellent needle retention. The
soft needles are usually green to blue green.
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This is the White Spruce. Many of the white spruce at Bell's
Christmas Trees are decorated with natural growing pine cones,
ooops!!!!, don't call them pine cones, they are SPRUCE cones!

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This is the Colorado Blue Spruce .
The needles range in color from dark green to bright blue. The
Colorado Blue Spruce has short, sharp, very strong needles with
good needle retention if kept watered. The needles are 1-1
1/2 inches long on lower branches but somewhat shorter on upper
branches. They are 4-sided and have a very sharp point on the end.
It is this point which gives the species its name "pungens", from
the Latin word for sharp, as in puncture wound. Needles are
generally dull bluish-gray to silvery blue.
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These are the branches of our Serbian Spruce. It is the most
graceful of all spruces, the Serbian Spruce offers thin arching
branches with a slender straight trunk. The needles are
light-green to blue-green with purple to cinnamon colored ones
and a half inch cones.

This is one of our newer trees, the Concolor Fir. This tree
grows in an almost perfect pyramidal Christmas tree shape when
young, with horizontally tiered branches. At maturity the tree
develops a dome-like crown. The short, flat, soft needles are
silvery blue-green both above and below, although the undersides
may have a whitish bloom. The needles have a slight citrus smell
when broken. The smooth gray bark develops attractive deep,
irregular furrows and irregular, flattened scales on mature
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