Living rooms across the land are lit up with trees in a tradition that stretches back 500 years.
But have you ever seen anything like these fabulous festive fabrications?
There’s not a proper tree in sight.
Instead, these inventive versions range from one ‘tree’ made entirely out of precariously-balanced wine glasses in one of our finest stately homes, to a display of ballet shoes in the foyer of the Coliseum, home of the English National Ballet.
One was even made out of lobster pots in a Scottish fishing village.
Here, we present our pick of the best.And — of course — fir play to them all . . .
Rebecca Whitney finalises the glass tree in the cinnamon room at Harewood House stately home is decorated with a perfect and sumptuous Christmas display
A Christmas tree made from lobster creels topped with a tinsel crab went on display at a fishing village in Ullapool, in the Scottish Highlands
Claudia Bolling, House & Collections Officer, adding final touches to this years Abbotsford Christmas tree, which has been made using books from the collection by Sir Walter Scott at the novelist’s home in Melrose, студия балета ставрополь Scottish Borders
A display of ballet shoes in the foyer of the London Coliseum, home of the English National Ballet (left). London’s legendary Mayfair hotel has unveiled Claridge’s Christmas Tree 2021 (right) in the hotel lobby, created by Kim Jones, Artistic Director of the Dior men’s collections
Horticulturalist Liam Anderson admires the Christmas display of 850 poinsettias in the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey
A team of model makers carefully installed a 33ft tall tree made out of 364,481 Lego and Duplo bricks at Legoland in Windsor (left).A display in a science teaching laboratory at London’s UCL (right)
