Farms running out of Christmas trees after surge in sales as shoppers buy early

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Farms  are running out of Christmas trees after a surge in sales as shoppers are buying early. The British Christmas Tree Growers Association said there had been a 24% sales rise year-on-year with some farms having their entire crop snapped up by mid-November.

Managing agent Heather Parry said: “It feels like it’s really buzzing.” A stocklist kept by the UK’s 320 tree growers has “nothing left on it”, said Olly Combe, the owner of York Christmas Trees.

Mr Coombe supplied the 20ft Nordmann fir to Downing Street this year – his prize for winning the BCTGA show this month. He sells 11,000 trees a year and currently only has enough stock for his regulars. “I have a friend in Lincolnshire with a slightly bigger business, and he has sold out,” he