Davidson Tree Farm

We had an awesome experience at Davidson Tree Farms! For our first Christmas as a married couple we wanted a live tree. Davidson wasn’t too far outside of the city and their prices looked fair. We arrived, borrowed one of their hacksaws, and tramped out to the fields. There were at least 8 – 10 different styles of trees. Our apartment has tall ceilings so we wandered around until we found one that looked perfect. They had helpers with a tractor and a wagon as well as handcarts.
The prices are reasonable — $ 30 – 55 for 8.5 feet and under, $ 6 a foot after that. They shake the tree up for loose needles, bag it, and will drill a hole. They sell tree bags, tree stands, tree food, anything and everything you need to keep your tree healthy for the season.
There is also a barn with cocoa, snacks, and hole made ornaments, all very well priced. The tree guys take credit cards but the snack barn is cash only. There are porta potties on site. All in all it made for a really wonderful memory– all down to the nice gentleman who helped tie our tree to re car. As long as we are in Maryland we will be getting our tree from Davidson Farms!

I came here on the Saturday right after Thanksgiving, hoping for the best while assuming the worst. When I arrived, there was a long stretch of cars down the road and lots of happy families piling trees onto the tops of them. Parking wasn’t plentiful, but we managed to squeeze into a spot. Then we marched through the snowy mud, grabbed a saw, and off we went to the ‘forest’. There were trees as far as the eye could see, and at least 8 different varieties and in various sizes.
The process was quick and only slightly painful. Chopping the tree does involve getting very low to the ground, so I recommend bringing an old towel or blanket if you don’t want to kneel in the snowy mud. It was also about 10 degrees colder and windier here than it was in DC, so dress warmly. You also might want gardening gloves that you don’t mind getting sap on.
The people who work here are very friendly and not at all overbearing sales people. They help you shake off your tree and wrap it in netting. Hot cider and a few christmas tchotchkes are sold in a nearby barnhouse. You can also buy wreaths or potted trees, too. I left with a huge blue spruce tree, a wreath, and a $ 10 potted dwarf pine tree (impulse buy, but it’s so pretty).
The trees are approximately $ 75 – 85, depending on the type and size you choose. Credit cards are accepted, even Amex.
Feel free to bring your dogs and your children, just keep them all on a leash or else they will be turned into reindeer for Santa’s sleigh.

Great scenery! about $ 85 for Douglas fur and stand. They drill it for you for easy set up and give u free rope to tie it on your car roof. The guys help make the process pretty simple. Huge selection of acres of trees to cut.

We just bought our Christmas tree at Davidson on a very cold day. It was challenging to research which tree farm was the best bet so I decided to add this one to Unilocal to make it easier for other folks.
The scene is quite beautiful at Davidson, with lots of Christmas tree-​covered land and no Walmarts to ruin the photo. They accept cash and credit cards, though a small snack area (serving some pretty popular cider) is cash only.
It was our first time cutting our own tree and we were pretty surprised by how simple it is: You grab a cart thing and an axe and go chop down a tree, any tree. There are different prices for the six or seven varieties they had there ranging from $ 35-​$ 42 or so. We got a Douglas Fir (or so we’re told) for $ 38. They’ve got mega-​huge trees as well as apartment-​friendly ones, though they cost the same pretty much no matter how big they are.
They shake your tree and put it into the plastic netting stuff for you.
Some other farms offered petting zoos, full gift shops and snack bars, etc. But Davidson was pretty straightforward, though you can get a wreath and a cup of cider. I actually really liked the simplicity of it, and the drive was quite beautiful.
Dogs on leashes are welcome and many families took the opportunity to bring Fido along.
So maybe it would have been more convenient to go to Home Depot. But now I have a photo of my boyfriend posing with an axe over our supine tree, victorious. Which is kind of exactly what I wanted!
I recommend Davidson, though of course it’s my only tree farm experience and I obviously have no other point of comparison.
P. S. The sign for Davidson is pretty small and we missed it the first time. Keep your eyes peeled.