Every year, towards the end of November, there is great anticipation and fanfare as capital cities across the world get ready to reveal their showpiece Christmas tree for the upcoming festive season. These gigantic Christmas trees are typically placed in iconic locations such as New York’s Rockefeller Centre, London’s Trafalgar Square, and even Dublin’s own famous thoroughfare – Grafton street.
But what’s been the tallest Christmas tree of them all? Well, surprisingly perhaps, the Guinness Book of Records maintains that the tallest Christmas Tree ever cut was a 221ft Douglas Fir which was showcased outside a shopping mall in Seattle (USA) in the year 1950. There’s a daytime/nighttime split image below which gives you a sense of this epic tree’s immense scale as it towers over the wonderful old Americana style cars parked next to it.