It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year to Buy a Fake Christmas Tree

That’s way less than you’d spend at a Christmas-tree farm.

Pochoda’s neighbors go out of their way to pass by her window to look at this “profane pink number.”

This bears the fruit of conifers.

Actually studio-apartment-friendly.

No more picking up dropped pine needles here.

It’s pencil-slim for a nook (or cranny).

Very lifelike!

A shorter version of the Kingswood Fir our writer Brenley Goertzen kept by her fireplace.

Stefania Orrù, director of production at Eater, decorated this in a “disco junk food” theme (with ornaments shaped like a hot dog and pizza) one year.

Let it “snow,” without any need to apply Elmer’s liquid glue and baking flour (a tip from set decorator Samantha Twist).

To channel A Charlie Brown Christmas television special.

Founded in 1954, Puleo bills itself as “the oldest family name for Christmas trees in America.”

There are approximately 1,023 branch tips on every Puleo Teton Pine.

From Target’s Wondershop comes the Alberta Spruce that e-commerce consultant Brittany Nims kept between her husband’s desk and the entertainment console in her old apartment’s living room. It’s available in 3-, 6.5-, 7.5-, and 9-feet sizes (starting at $23 on sale).

Bring the great outdoors indoors.

Not a bad deal for dual-color LED lights (in white and multi).

It resembles balsam firs in Maine. “Some trees just look like plastic,” says Erin Swift, founder of holiday-decorating firm Holiday Workroom. But if you’re going for realistic fake, “the answer is simple: Balsam Hill. Always Balsam Hill,” she adds.

Trolio, who was sent a sampler kit of Balsam Hill’s branches, notes that the ones on the Vermont White Spruce have pointier needle tips than the Balsam Fir’s.

“It’s one of my absolute favorites of the handful of Balsam Hill trees I’ve actually seen in person,” says Trolio. Plus it “very much matches the product photo on the site.”

It starred in Hallmark’s One Royal Holiday,and themovie’s set decorator calls it “majestic.”

Flip Trees from Balsam Hill “flip” open on a rolling stand (here’s a video of how it works) for an assembly that takes only minutes. Prop stylist Andrea Greco says they’re a “game changer.”

Quite tinselly.

Or maybe you’re more the coppery type.

This one makes me want sing along to “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”

Because of the flocking on this blue tree, it seems much fuller than it is. “Think of thickening mascara on eyelashes,” Trolio says.

Based on the ponderosa pine, which the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln see across the forests near Mount Rushmore.