If you can’t wait to gather your family and friends around a large Christmas tree, listen to festive music and adorn the branches with baubles, we recommend browsing our 7ft and 8ft Christmas trees now. Many people like to have a tree in a pot with hopes to keep it from year to year. Bear in mind that Christmas trees make enormous specimens when planted in the ground and are only suitable for large gardens. If you'd like a tree to keep for several years, it's best kept on the patio outside of the festive season. It'll need watering whenever the compost feels dry when you push your fingers in and feeding with a Best Buy liquid plant food during spring and summer. Watch out for aphids which sometimes will infest the tree. In terms of the environment, you may wish to consider where the tree has been raised as many are transported from overseas.

Clamp your tree securely into a Christmas-tree stand to prevent it toppling over and taking the decorations with it. To find the perfect balance between a sweeping centrepiece and the bustle of a busy home, a medium Christmas tree might be the best option. Explore our great selection of 5ft and 6ft trees. When buying a tree in a pot, always buy one that is labelled 'pot grown' as this has spent its whole life in a pot; 'potted' trees tend to be cheaper but they often die as they've been dug up from the field they were grown in and put in a pot, which results in root damage.

For the tree to look as good as it can on Christmas Day, buy it as near to Christmas as you can - although this year a lot of people seem to be putting them up much earlier than before. In some areas, you can hire a Christmas tree in a pot which will be delivered and then collected. Although you'll pay a premium for this service, it may be useful, especially if you don't have a car to transport your tree or find lifting and carrying difficult.

A Christmas tree is an essential part of any space during the festive season. From real trees to quality artificial Christmas trees in pre-lit and unlit styles, you’re sure to find the best tree for you at Homebase. Alternatively if your living space is compact and cosy, your perfect Christmas tree may be an even smaller size. Our 2ft and 3ft table top trees will let you fit Christmas around you. With a wide choice of tree decorations and string lights to suit all budgets, whatever the tree size we have the perfect decorating solution to make it magical.