"This is a one year Douglas fir seedling," said Day ... whether these little green babies grow up to be Christmas trees - or future forests. "I love what I do coming in and you just you feel ...

Growing trees for your landscape is a gardening challenge ... Norway Spruce grows in USDA hardiness zones 2 to 7. Douglas Fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, can grow up to 6 feet tall in five years.

The farm is one of 15,000 growing Christmas trees throughout the United States ... but the most popular is their Douglas fir. The Douglas firs grown at Holiday Tree Farms are not just sold ...

During the course of a day, they could plant between 2,000 and 4,000 trees, piercing the soil with a shovel, stooping down to bury the roots of a tiny Douglas Fir, pressing the sapling in with a ...

It's a mix of fast-growing species such as grey alder, coniferous trees such as larch and Douglas fir, and species such as sycamore and oak that will take more than a century to reach maturity.

When he first started growing his own trees in the late ... Jason Redmond / AP The most popular breeds of Christmas trees are the Fraser fir, Douglas fir and Noble fir. Now, Chastagner is ...