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A brief look at a few of the historic Christmas trees that have lit up Rockefeller Center.

Over the years, the Real Simple editorial team has collaborated with dozens of pro organizers, and we've doled out plenty of our own organizing secrets—but while working with Nikki Boyd on the 2021 Real Simple Home, we still learned a few new tricks.

Removing a tree can be a very stressful process. Without insurance, the average price per tree costs between $700 to $1200. There are a few good reasons why experts say it’s best to leave it to them.

Workers managed to rescue a cow that was trapped in a tree in an area south of New Orleans.

Believed to almost 800 years old, the Beauly elm has been laser scanned as part of work to document it.

People who care about trees are fighting to save them as Morton Aboretum census shows their benefits: natural cooling on hot days, carbon and pollution removal, safeguards against flooding, homes for creatures of all sorts, a daily boost to our physical and mental health.

HOUSTON – If a year ever needed a 9-foot tree made out of whiskey bottles, it’s 2020. Jameson Whiskey has created a tree with a lighting system that makes its 130 Jameson bottles light up. The trees are worth an estimated $5,000. Jameson Whiskey Tree (Jameson Whiskey)Jameson Whiskey Tree (Jameson Whiskey)Jameson Whiskey Tree (Jameson Whiskey)Jameson Whiskey Tree (Jameson Whiskey)Jameson Whiskey Tree (Jameson Whiskey)The Jameson Whiskey Trees will be delivered the first week of December. The bottles on each are empty, but each winner will receive a gift card to enjoy Jameson Black Barrel this holiday season.

HOUSTON – A video showing a massive tree-cutting fail is circulating online, and it’s purported to have been filmed in the Houston area a year ago. Here is what one writer says he discovered while digging into the video’s epic past. Spencer Hall, of the Moon Crew podcast, reports that the viral video shows what happened when Houstonian Matt Bieniek’s lawn guy was hired to chop down a massive pine on November 4, 2019, while Bieniek was at work. “OHHHH GOD DAMMIIIIIIIIIIT” pic.twitter.com/UBRH4O0XG3 — BUM CHILLUPS, NPR CLASS PUNDIT (@edsbs) September 14, 2020Do you need to know more? We love the part where insurance people were asked to address the nearly $60,000 in damage the tree did to the home.

This year, leave your plastic pine in the box and cut down your own tree at one of these Houston-area tree farms.

"Ugly" Christmas tree in Pennsylvania won't come down after all A much-criticized Christmas tree in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania, is still standing. Many community members complained that it looked ugly and local officials started to take it down Monday, but as Vicente Arenas reports, the tree got a last-minute reprieve.

11/17 Missouri gears up for Ferguson grand jury decision,Tree planted on Capitol Hill commemorates Emmett Till In St. Louis, protesters marched near the county courthouse where grand jurors will soon make their decision on whether to charge a police officer in the shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown last.Chicago teen Emmett Till was brutally killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman - an event that helped spur the nation's civil rights movement. Till is now being memorialized on Capitol Hill.

Behind the special tree bearing many fruits A Syracuse University professor has done something no one has ever seen before. He's grown a tree that will produce 40 different kinds of fruit. Jeff Glor reports.

Christmas in July: Who will supply White House Christmas tree? For most people, it’s a little early to be fussing over Christmas trees, unless you’re competing for the right to supply the tree that will grace the Blue Room of the White House. Chris Botek of Crystal Spring Tree Farm in Leighton, Pennsylvania, won that honor. Chip Reid reports.