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Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree, oh I think it’s time we stop killing trees.

Why is there no one in Toronto offering this service?

U.S. environmentalists who love the trappings of Christmas but cringe at the thought of cutting down a tree now have another option – an Oregon company that rents out living evergreens and then replants them after the holidays.
The Original Living Christmas Tree Company has rented out more than 400 trees this Christmas season, starting at $55 US for a two-metre Douglas fir.

The company’s founder, John Fogel, and his crew take the plants out of the ground, roots and all, put them into pots and deliver them to people in the Portland area.

After New Year’s Day, they return to pick up the trees, which they deliver to parks, schools and other groups that pay about $10 to have them planted on their property.

“My market happens to be people that feel guilty about cutting trees,” Fogel, who has offered the service since 1991, told the Associated Press news agency. “But this also happens to be a convenient alternative.”

Staff at the National Christmas Tree Association say they don’t know of any other rent-a-tree business in the United States.

Business experts said the $791-million US Christmas tree industry should take note, because it has struggled as synthetic trees increase in popularity.

Of course, the famous carol doesn’t mention the 33 million delightful Christmas trees across North America that end up in the wood chipper each year.

Now, an Oakville native living in Burnaby, B.C., hopes to change that.

Jeff Ferguson and his business partner Sean Macalister recently launched Evergrow Christmas Trees Co., which rents live trees to customers, drops them off in a pot, then picks them up after Christmas and replants them.

“We sold out in two weeks, actually 75 per cent were gone in four days.” The last one on Tuesday, Ferguson says. In this first year of operation they only uprooted and potted 200 trees for rental, not expecting such demand.

“It was pretty much word of mouth,” helped by a recent story in a local Burnaby newspaper, Ferguson says. The rental fee is between $90 and $150, which includes delivery and pickup of the 4 ft. to 7 1/2 ft. firs or spruces.

Next year they plan to have trees up to 9 ft. tall.