One recent pain point was the economic downturn of 2008, when the total number of real Christmas trees sold nationwide fell 34% from 19.3 million sold in 1998 to 12.8 million in 2009.

Between 2005 and 2020, the total number of tree farms in Oregon — the country’s top producer of natural Christmas trees, accounting for about one-third of sales in 2019 — plummeted from ...

What to make of black Christmas trees. December 8, 2020. Kara Trombetta, a photographer based in Austin, has had a matte black tree for several years. (Anthony Trombetta) By Elizabeth Mayhew.