Each holiday season since 1982, customers in the Alexandria, VA, region have found excellent quality Christmas trees and greenery at great prices from Phil and Shari Gallery and their team. Open daily from just after Thanksgiving until we're out of trees (usually by December 18th), you can find Almost Heavenly Trees in the parking lot at Southern Towers at the corner of Seminary Rd. and Beauregard St. (enter from Beauregard end of parking lot) from 10AM to 9PM Monday through Saturday, 11AM to 9PM Sundays.
We want to make sure you'll have a good experience with this important part of your family holiday. Live trees are a safer choice for your family according to HealthyChild.orgThey are also more environmentally friendly — remember, Christmas trees are planted and grown as a crop, so they get re-planted and help clean the air. After the holiday they get mulched (Alexandria City tree recycling program) and return to the environment in a natural way. Made from petroleum-based chemicals (per Science20.com) artifical trees are also transported all the way from the other side of the world.
Family memories include the tradition of choosing the tree that will be a focal point of your holiday.
2012 CHRISTMAS TREE PRICES
| Size | Fraser Firs | Douglas Firs & Spruce (Blue) |
|---|---|---|
3 to 4 ft |
n/a |
$15 |
4 to 5 ft |
n/a |
$20 |
5 to 6 ft |
$40 |
$30 |
6 to 7 ft |
$50 |
$40 |
7 to 8 ft |
$60 |
$50 |
8 to 9 ft |
$70 |
$60 |
9 ft + |
$80 |
$70 |
CASH AND CHECKS ACCEPTED |
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You can also get white pine garland (roping) in 25-foot lengths ($16 or $2 per yard for shorter lengths), 12-inch mixed-green wreaths (approx. 22" wide) $15 and Superior Tree Stands** now SOLD OUT of wreaths, garland and stands **(designed by tree growers—with a lifetime guarantee—for $25, very stable, accommodates all kinds of trunks and holds lots of water—we call them "marriage savers" because they are so-o-o much easier to use than those awful screw-type stands.
In 2008, after visiting the Almost Heavenly Trees sales lot at Southern Towers, a crew from Ukranian Television came out to Almost Heavenly Trees' farm to film the tree operation from shearing and cutting, to baling, loading, and then even decorating our own family tree. Take a look. If the video doesn't show up, click here to view
The beautiful trees you'll find on our lots are mostly grown in beautiful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia—actually in Hampshire County, WV, the first county over the border west of Winchester, VA, out US Rt. 50. Many have grown from seedlings on the Gallery's family tree farm, Almost Heavenly Trees, in Augusta, WV, while others come from the farms of trusted local growers. You can even come up and visit where the trees start out and stay in our relaxing vacation rental house, Just Far Enough Getaway.
Additional trees come from a top grower at higher elevations in Virginia and North Carolina, where fraser firs are most commonly found. The trees for the Christmas feature in Martha Stewart Living December 2008 issue came from that grower and she is certainly known for being a selective customer.
Our children started helping with the trees as toddlers. Now two of them have finished careers as Naval Officers and moved on to the business world. The other two have graduated from WVU and Shepherd Universities respectively. One is now living and working Los Angeles, CA, and the other is serving in the Peace Corps in Azerbaijan. When they're able to work it into their busy schedules, they all try to return and help out the "old folks" and visit with our long-time friends at the tree sales lots. Now children of long-term customers are working for us assisting current customer.
Son Nathan returned from California to help out this year, seen here drilling a stump for a customer.
