LivingThe tradition of lighting up Christmas trees in rooms all over the country dates back to 500 years ago.
Have you seen any other festive creations like this?
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 London Coliseum, home of the English National Ballet.
In a Scottish fishing community, one was made from lobster pots.
We present the top picks. And — of course — fir play to them all . . .
Rebecca Whitney finishes the Harewood House cinnamon room glass tree. It is now decorated with an exquisite and lavish 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, Scottish Borders
Left: A display of ballet footwear in the foyer at the London Coliseum. Home to the English National Ballet. Claridge’s Christmas Tree 2021 in London’s Mayfair hotel was unveiled by Kim Jones Artistic Director for the Dior men’s collection.
Horticulturalist Liam Anderson admires the Christmas display of 850 poinsettias in the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey
The tree was carefully built by a team of model-makers from Legoland Windsor. It is 33 feet tall and made of 364,481 Lego bricks. A display in a science teaching laboratory at London’s UCL (right)