![]() ![]() “If you’re going to buy a tree that’s not traditionally green, then you already have imagination, right?” he said. ![]() Everybody’s got an attic full of Christmas decorations, he said, and they like putting their heirloom decorations on. It’s just a pretty decoration out there and it fits in with the rest of my purple stuff.” Decorating tips? Use your imaginationĪs for decorating, well, Schenk said the tree is already decorated purple, so she just puts some lights on so people can see it at night.ĭavid Hanggi said you can decorate any tree. “I love purple and everything’s purple here at the pie shop. People who stop in say they love it, Schenk said. Monica Schenk has a purple tree, which is outside her Naples pie shop, Monica’s Pies. If you’ve ever stepped barefoot on a pine needle on Christmas morning, you know how important that is. The needles tend to stay on the painted trees longer. The colorful trees tend to be sold by the time the Hanggis open up for the season. In fact, some press coverage in recent years referred to their popularity as a "trend." Tree farms from Long Island to Central New York and the Southern Tier offer them. Purple, at least around here, is a constant. They’ve done red, white and blue in certain election years, and they have been asked if they will do Buffalo Bills football team colors – someday, perhaps. In previous years, they tried orange, because some of their customers came from Syracuse – and they come from Rochester, Buffalo, Elmira and Pennsylvania – but they didn’t look right when the paint faded. This year, the 50 or 60 painted trees are either sugar plum purple or midnight blue. About 5% of what they sell are painted trees. That they did, although business for the painted trees didn’t exactly explode, David said. I just thought people would enjoy that,” Celeste said. It’s something different, something neat. They did their first tree purple – remember, Naples is grape country – before a fall Naples Grape Festival. Then after seeing a demonstration of how it was done, he was a convert. The paint was green, and meant to be used in case a tree was off-color.Ĭeleste’s wheels first began to turn and she tried, unsuccessfully at first, to talk her husband into trying it. Around that time, while attending a summer convention of the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of New York, they saw a painted tree. She concocted a story, saying a special snail that only lives in Naples used to ingest the tannins from grapes that drop on the ground and then excrete the byproduct into the ground, which in turn leeches into the tree roots and gives the trees their purple color.ĭavid and Celeste Hanggi took over the family farm from his parents four years ago. That prompted the question, how does the tree turn purple? So she stopped to take a photo and send along to her cousin, who loves the color purple. The farm is in Naples, just under 40 miles southeast of Rochester.Ī woman was driving past the farm when she spied a purple tree among the traditional green varieties. This weekend, as many people head out to remote areas searching for the perfect tree to decorate for the season and place gifts under, consider this from the Hanggi's Tree Farm in the heart of grape and wine country in upstate New York. – Someday, the story of the purple Christmas trees might be passed on from generation to generation, making spirits bright like Rudolph’s red nose and Frosty’s magic hat.
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