#100 Bavarian Christmas Tree

Sublime.  Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

#99 Making Tracks Christmas Tree

Karlsruhe has now published a book of their unique Christmas trees, you can order it here!  This clever tire tread is by Cornelia Sieg.

#98 Dog Biscuit Christmas Tree

from the ever-interesting Karlsruhe University of Art and Design 'O Tannenbaum' exhibit...by Max Kosoric.

#97 Halifax Explosion Christmas Tree

The Christmas tree that graces Boston Common each year is a gift from the citizens of Halifax, Novia Scotia, to thank the citizens of Boston for their response to the Halifax Explosion. On December 6, 1917, a munition ship collided with another vessel in the harbor in what remains the world's largest man-made accidental explosion. 2,000 people were killed, and 9,000 injured by debris, falling buildings, and fire. To make matters worse, a record-breaking blizzard dropped 16 inches of snow on the devastated city the next day.

Boston quickly engaged in extensive relief efforts, organizing doctors, nurses and medical supplies and raised significant amounts of money and goods for the relief of the beleagured city. Boston military personnel searched for survivors, and helped to resettle victims.  The tree, which must be 40-50 feet in height, has been donated by Nova Scotians each year since 1972.

[Thanks to reader Janey for the tip about this Christmas tree, connected to a historical event I had never heard of!]

#96 Firewood Christmas Tree

Surprisingly beautiful by candlelight...

Also from the contest, tree by Sude Müller, Furtwangen, Deutschland.

#95 2-D Christmas Tree

Cones of paper seem all the rage this year...world wide christmas tree contest entry by Miguel Héctor Chauqui, Jujuy, Argentina.

#93 A4 Christmas Tree

Also Worldwide Christmas Tree contest, the paper tree of Ana Lorca, España.

#92 CD Christmas Tree

Juan Sepulveda Quillota, Chile, also via the Worldwide Christmas Tree contest (where you can vote for your favorites!) 

#91 Ribbon Loop Christmas Tree

I think I could do this!  Pretty.  Also from the Worldwide Christmas Tree Contest, this tree is by Pablo Reboliz of Bella Unión, Uruguay .

#90 I Saw Three Ships... Christmas Tree

...come sailing in on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day (did you know Sting sings that?)

from the wacky Worldwide Christmas Contest, submitted by Alondra Vidal, Ancud, Chiloe, Chile.

#88 Invisible Dog Christmas Tree

by artist Ian Trask at Invisible Dog; made from old roping left behind in the warehouse where the original 'invisible dog' toy was made. Found via swissmiss.

#87 Christmas Tree in a Bottle

"These little bottles hold a bit of moss and a sprig of conifer and a few drops of spruce essential oil. Through the vented caps on these little ornaments your tree will be delicately surrounded with fresh of pine. My family has switched from a fresh tree to a artificial one do to my sons allergies. So in the last few years I have hung these little bottles from our tree, it is that added touch that makes our tree a real christmas tree to my kids."

A nice idea from onegiftoneworld at etsy.

#86 Faux Fir Christmas Tree

Faux-fir, from the botanical puns of Christopher Niemann

#85 Letters to Santa Christmas Tree

On a college campus, requests include:
"dear santa ive been good all year please let me pass (whichever class you are failing)

dear santa make my teacher ( disapear, die, cancel the exam )
dear santa give jimmy some new pants bcause he always wears the same ones
dear santa make the cafeteria evacuate those geeks on the back
dear santa i havent been good, but i still want a car and a hundred in all my exams"

by thecuriouswanderer via flickr

#84 White Twig Christmas Tree

Lovely stylings and handmade ornaments by tabithaemma

#83 Bamboo Christmas Tree

by Brian McFarlane for the Hyatt, Trinidad [source]

#82 Christian Dior Christmas Tree

Designed by John Galliano for Claridge's Hotel in London.  Leopards??

Found via materialicious

#81 World's Largest Living Christmas Tree

The world's largest living Christmas tree is in Wilmington, North Carolina.  It was first lighted in 1929 and, with the exception of World War I, has been lighted ever since. The massive oak tree covered with spanish moss is believed to be more than 400 years old and is covered at Christmas time with 5,250 bulbs.  [source]

#80 Spiky Christmas Tree

At the Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan. By aoisakana via flickr.

#79 Chatsworth Christmas Tree

The Duchess of Devonshire views the modern Christmas tree that she has created for the festive season at her Chatsworth stately home on October 31, 2008."


You may recognize its location as the sculpture gallery featured in the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice.

found at Zimbio.

#78 Hall Tree Christmas Tree

juicedpixels simply repurposes the coatrack/washing rack as a Christmas tree each December...

#77 Christmas Tree Spelling Bee

Great wall decal from funkyds, which appears to no longer be in business...DIY, perhaps?

#76 Drumset Christmas Tree

Michael Miles' tree via apartmenttherapy, "5 drums, 1 tambourine, 1 strand of ceramic lights, and 1 bucket of shiny balls. Partridge not included."

#75 Drying Rack Christmas Tree

found at the clothespeg

#74 Greenback Christmas Tree

at Bar 89, NYC , found at apartmenttherapy.

#73 Catalog Christmas Tree

'Tis the season for a mailbox full of catalogs...found at designmom.

#72 Iron Cross Christmas Tree

from a fascinating piece about how the Nazis tried to remove the Jewish Christ child from Christmas at Spiegel online

#71 Bicycle Christmas Tree

[source]

#70 USS Randolph Christmas Tree

from the National Naval Aviation Museum...

"At sea en route to the West Coast of the United States in the carrier Randolph (CV 15) in December 1944, the pilots of Bombing Squadron (VB) 87 held a Christmas party in their ready room. The celebration came complete with a homemade Christmas tree with a broomstick handle stem and cardboard leaves, the ornaments consisting of playing cards. Assembled beneath the tree were gag gifts that prompted laughter among all."

#69 Holey Christmas Tree

found at coolonsale, trees by Vladimir Ivanov.

#68 Seashell Christmas Tree

Surprisingly beautiful...via the blog enroute

#67 Fabric Samples Christmas Tree

Leftover fabric samples from an architectural studio, clipped to fishing line secured to a recycled piece of foam core. [source]

#66 Desk Drawer Contents Christmas Tree

Green bits and bobs at creativereview.

#65 Car Track Christmas Tree

from a 2007 ad for Mazda, via the great collection of Christmas advertising at designinterviews

#64 Brussel Sprouts Christmas Tree

also via madsilence

#63 French Fry Christmas Tree

found at the blog madsilence

#62 Recycled Robot Christmas Tree

Check out the toilet plunger 'arm'! I've lost my source for this one...please enlighten me if you have it.

#61 CRT Christmas Tree

[source]

#60 Recycled Cardboard Christmas Tree

"First, the cardboard, courtesy of Glen at the local Smurfit Kappa cardboard factory. He gave us a pile of reject cardboard sheet (made from recycled paper).

We hoped to carve out a shape from a block of cardboard but a test showed that it didn't leave a nice finish. So, we modified the design to use only squares, and got the rulers, set squares and Stanley knives out.

We glued the 200-odd pieces using starch to ensure the card could still be recycled; sprayed it with fire retardent, and ta-da!."

Text and image from recyclenow, where you can register to win the tree!  Found via materialicious.

#59 Chocolate Christmas Tree

60 kilos, site unknown. Via the Times online.

#58 MOSFET Christmas Tree

Web-controlled; instructions here

#57 Century Plant Christmas Tree

"Century Plant (Agave missionum) Although many Virgin Islanders now purchase imported pine trees from North America to use as Christmas trees, the traditional Virgin Island Christmas tree is made from the stalk of the mature century plant. "

via the stjohnbeachguide

#56 Children's Costume Christmas Tree

Seriously, there's a kid in there?

Made from those eggcrate foam mattress pieces. Instructions at coolest-homemade-costumes.

#55 Minimalist Twig Christmas Tree

nice instructions at espritcabane

#54 Through the Roof Christmas Tree

Last year, Greg Howe (who makes his money designing skate parks) spent £250 on an enormous tree installed so that it appeared to grow from floor to floor and out the roof of his home in Dorset England.

via the daily mail

#53 Another Cardboard Christmas Tree

this time by hoipippo

#52 Fishing Net Christmas Tree

Cedar Key Marina, Florida [source]

#51 Craft Stick Christmas Tree

full instructions (if you need them) here.

#50 Santa Claus as Christmas Tree by Saul Steinberg

c. 1949 by the famed New Yorker cartoonist. via londonsketchbook

#49 Glass Chevron Christmas Tree

"Like a static waterfall of glass, this tree is one of designer and artist Janis Leonard’s favorites."

#48 Electrostatic ball Tree

Like the ones you can get at science museums...cool idea!

Also by Janis Leonard.

#47 Broken Glass Christmas Tree

Also by Janis Leonard.

"A monument to the fact that beauty can come from broken things, this tree by designer and artist Janis Leonard is made of cracked and chipped martini and wine glasses collected over four years from AZ88 and its sister restaurant Bar 89 in Manhattan."

#46 Shoe Christmas tree

One of a series of Christmas trees made from trash by designer and artist Janis Leonard for Phoenix, Arizona's AZ88 restaurant.

#45 Collapsible Paper Christmas Tree

Good for packing in a suitcase. Instructions at ehow

#44 Insulator Christmas Tree

It even lights up!

Yard art by Bill Spooner.

#43 Christmas Pudding Christmas Tree

"A couple from Somerset have transformed a 20ft (6m) conifer into a Christmas pudding complete with cream and illuminated holly berries on top.

The tree in Roger and Valerie Holley's front garden in Yeovil is spreading the festive cheer to passers-by.

Roger Holley, 60, used white emulsion paint to create the cream and half a dozen ball floats from a toilet cistern, painted red for the berries.

It has taken Mr Holley five years of careful pruning to create the pudding."

via the beeb.

#42 Gryder Modern Christmas Tree

Also from Buro North, also $149 in their store, the "Gryder". 

#41 Tensile Modern Christmas Tree

New from Buro North (makers of this flat-pack plywood Christmas tree featured previously), the "Frigg".  $149 at their website.

#40 Snow Shovel Christmas Tree

from eternallycool

#39 Sushi Christmas Tree

via sushiordeath

#38 Bon Marche 1956 Christmas Tree

On the corner of the store in Seattle, 1956-1957, when it was replaced with the famous star. Via the Seattle Times.

#37 Two Million Dollar Christmas Tree

On display last year at a Japanese jeweler...21 kilograms of gold and 240 jewels including strings of pearls and diamond baubles. Via the mirror

#36 Coconut Husk Christmas Tree

on display in Sulop, Davao del Sur, via Mindanao Magazine

#35 Kraft paper Christmas Tree

via myspinningwheels

#34 Christmas tree Birdhouse

in the Bird and Butterfly Sanctuary section of the Monarch Sculpture Park in Olympia, Washington; photo by hikenutty via waymarks

#33 South Pole Christmas Tree

"As it's been explained to me, the tree started a few years back when the night shift iron workers built it out of scraps and discarded metal parts. Each year since, members of the iron crew have added their own ornaments and adornments, resulting in a monstrous sculptural creation with more personality and character than any other Christmas tree I have ever seen. The ornaments are made from nuts and bolts, broken tools, saw blades, gears, and any sort of scrap that can be dug out of the recycling bins in the shops around the station. Limbs of the tree fall off and it requires repairs and adjustements every season. "

from Kathryn Schaffer, an astrophysicist stationed at the pole. Read more at her blog.

#32 Christmas Trees of the Architects

from ashleygoodwin

#31 Quilled Christmas Tree

The amazing paper stylings of artist Yula Brodskaya

#30 Underwater Christmas Tree

Novosobirsk divers set up a Christmas tree in frigid waters... [source]

#28 Whittled Christmas Tree

from the Phillipines; by mila d aguilar via flickr

#27 Bike-powered Christmas Trees, Barcelona

via treehugger

#26 Ice block Christmas tree

Made by the Swendsen family out of blocks cut from Lake Rainy. "Each block of clear ice was seven inches thick and using the weight of a cubic foot of ice, Frank estimates that the tree weighs 2,400 pounds, or a little over a ton."

[source]

#25 Copenhagen Christmas Tree

I want a bike like this for Christmas!

by [zakkaliciousness] via flickr

#24 Ice Cream Cone Christmas Tree

circa 1961, via -julia- at flickr

#23 Paper Art Christmas Tree

the beautiful stylings of carlos n. molina

#22 Stoplight Christmas Tree

Now if the lights were only all red at exactly the same time...[source]

#21 Christmas Tree in Progress

The Met's Neaopolitan Baroque Christmas Tree (#100 from last year), in the process of being assembled.

By cat boy via flickr.

#20 Christmas Trees and Chryslers

from the Cars Trees and Traditions holiday exhibit at the Chrysler museum

#19 1959 Aluminum Christmas Tree

from the vintage advertisements at curly wurly

#18 Vintage Haberdashery Christmas Tree

by maximum rabbit designs

#17 Arvore de Natal sculpture/Christmas Tree

by Atelier XT via Flickr

#16 Dash Away, Dash Away, Dash Away All Christmas Tree

by raining rita via flickr

#15 Collectibles Christmas tree

by ALTITW via flickr

#14 Tea cup Christmas Tree

by holiday jenny via flickr

#13 French Basket Christmas Tree

Not sure if this is a tower of cut greens or what, but it's interesting....from Christmas and Traditions

#12 Los Angeles Coliseum Christmas Trees

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, decorated for Christmas in a photo published in The Times, Dec. 20, 1949, also at the LA times blog of Larry Harnisch.

#11 Midnight Mission Christmas Tree

"Brother Tom Liddecoat speaks during Christmas dinner at the Midnight Mission, 2nd and Los Angeles streets. About 2,000 men who lived in "Hell's Half-Acre" of skid row were served, The Times said."

from the Dec. 25, 1923 issue of the Los Angeles Times

#10 Dutch Resistance Christmas Tree

"In Weteringschans Prison in Amsterdam, Carel Steensma made a Christmas tree out of the cardboard used for blacking out the window. The strips were cut with a fork that had been sharpened on the floor. The snow is made from a bandage wrapped around a gunshot wound, the decorations from the silver foil of medicinal powders. During the day the tree was kept hidden. On Christmas Eve 1941, carols were sung round the tree. The prisoners from all the other cells soon joined in. "

from the Museum of the Dutch Resistance

#9 Chandelier Christmas Tree

Slovakian open-air folk museum..."Note the hanged christmas tree in the top of the picture. This was a typical Xmas tree installation a hundred years ago."

[source]

#8 A Very Gehry Christmas Tree

spoof at MIT, probably resulting from difficulties in Frank Gehry's Stata center, for which MIT is suing the architect.

#7 Going Native Christmas Tree

a shiny aluminum tree spotted in the wild, via curbly

#6 Antique Cotton Ornament Christmas Tree

also the Taft...

#5 Antique Fruit and Vegetable Christmas Tree

Also from theTaft Museum exhibit

#4 Antique Icicle Christmas Tree

From an exhibit at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, featuring traditional German feather trees made of wire and dyed goose feathers are trimmed with rare ornaments from the mid-19th through early 20th century and surrounded by toys, figures, and dolls.

[source]