These are the best artificial Christmas trees to buy in 2019

CHRISTMAS can be a season of cheeriness and goodwill, sharing and giving and enjoying festive lights and sparkle.

Or, it can be a season where you feel supremely harassed long before the actual Christmas Day arrives. This might be due to the fact that in addition to organising cards and gifts and food for the big event, getting a Christmas tree together is quite a lot of work.

While we do enjoy the smell of a real Nordman tree, there are a lot of benefits to faking it.

Getting an artificial tree can save you hundreds of pounds over the years – just keep the tree you’ve bought and reuse it from one year to the next.

Also, artificial Christmas trees can be real time-savers.

You can get pre-lit ones and even pre-decorated ones, with baubles, bows and more.

The best perk, however? You know that your tree will look just as good on December 25^th as it did on December 1^st. And that, dear readers, is priceless.

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1. Best bargain artificial Christmas tree

Whoever said you need to spend a fortune to get a great-looking Christmas tree hasn’t yet met the 4ft-tall Shatchi tree. Ideal for smaller spaces, it’s made from 100% virgin PVC, with 230 bushy tips begging to be adorned with tinsel and baubles. It even comes with a metal stand – all for under a tenner. Fans think it’s amazing, and brilliant value for money.

• (AD) Shatchi 1.2m Christmas Tree Green 230 Pines Artificial Tree with Metal Stand, for £8.99 on Amazon – buy here

2. Best pre-decorated artificial Christmas tree

This Christmas Workshop artificial tree from Amazon has many points in its favour, like its slimline silhouette, which lends itself to sprucing up even the tightest spaces.

The pop-up tree can be assembled in five minutes – and goes down just as quickly – and comes pre-decorated with 60 LED lights, 30 gold bows and 30 gold baubles. Job done – now time for a festive tipple.

• (AD) The Christmas Workshop 84710 6 Foot 6ft Decorated Slim Line Pop Up Christmas Tree-Green with Gold Bows, for £44.68 on Amazon – buy here

3. Best colourful artificial Christmas tree

This stunning blue tree comes from one of the US’s best Christmas tree suppliers, Vickerman. It’s on the expensive side but fans argue that it does indeed stand the test of time. It also comes pre lit with hundreds of mini LED lights for that extra festive sparkle.

• Vickerman K160646LED 4.5 ft. x 34 in. Navy Blue Christmas Tree with 250 Blue & 525 Tips Mini LED Lights, for £292.99 on OnBuy – buy here

4. Best XL artificial Christmas tree

We know you can get convincing-looking artificial Christmas trees on a small scale, but Snowtime’s Colorado Green is proof that you can get turbo-sized Christmas trees that are of fantastic quality and amazing fullness.

This is a tree that really comes into its own with a bit of TLC, so spend some time playing around with the tree tips to get them looking their best. Bonus: it comes with a stand and a storage bag.

• (AD) Snowtime Colorado Green artificial Christmas tree, for £58.99 on Amazon – buy here

5. Best potted artificial Christmas tree

Finding an aesthetically pleasing Christmas tree stand is hard enough, so you can imagine our joy when we stumbled upon this glorious planter, which happens to house an absolutely divine artificial Christmas tree (that’s pre-lit and has tips that are forest green or frosted with ‘snow’). It’s also a smart choice for tight spaces.

• John Lewis & Partners St. Anton Potted Pre-lit Christmas Tree, 4.5ft, for £129 on John Lewis – buy here

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