My family has always bought our Fraser fir at Lowes and has always been happy with it. We usually wait until the second week of December to buy it, so it lasts until Christmas. However, this year I realized that it doesn’t matter when we buy it, since all the trees arrive in November and remain on the property the same amount of time. Are fresh-cut trees delivered throughout the season, or are they only cut at Thanksgiving and their little stumps cooled by December?
Unless Lowe’s is different, we’ve only received two tree deliveries in my 10 years there, both in the second or third week of November. The term “fresh cut” generally refers to the size before it’s packaged and brought home.
We received a truck around the 15th and another one last Monday. This was my third year unloading live trees, and I’ve never seen more than two deliveries.
We received a shipment at the end of November, one yesterday and one tomorrow. The last shipments contained trees of different sizes. I’ve been told they’re all harvested at the same time and that the distributor ships them at different times, but I don’t know if that’s true. The fresh cut you mentioned undoubtedly refers to the store cut.
This depends on the store’s turnover. Some stores receive one shipment, others two, and some even more if they sell a lot year after year.
New products are added every week.