But a tree cannot be healthy if the branches are overburdened, the trunk is damaged, or the roots are weak.
There had been claims that bats roosted in the tree, but a survey concluded the tree was not a bat roost.
And then there's Sony Pictures Television, which sent out a Joan of Arcadia box that not only played the series' theme song upon opening, but also featured a live tree, which was prominent in the provided episode.
On the edge of the site is the Survivor Elm, a tree damaged but not destroyed in the blast.
That means there may not be a mountain of gifts beneath the tree this year, but, instead, a few carefully selected items that will hold or appreciate in value.
Mr. Abe didn't visit but sent an offering of a potted tree used in rituals.
But our tree has been having a hard time recently -- this is our third one in as many years.
Timber-cutting was blamed for a while, but most commercial tree farms have more fish in their rivers than in those of urban areas.
But a court heard visitors were greeted by a muddy field, fairy lights dangling from a tree and a broken ice rink.
Police said a man was chained to a tree when they arrived, but the group later moved to comply with the eviction order.
"Schools understand that students want to leave their mark on the way out the door, but a better way to do that is to take up a donation and plant an oak tree, " said Mark Goulet, a lawyer for the school board in Smithville, Texas, where students last month were suspended after a cafeteria food fight involving burritos.
But one that comes to mind today is about a tree on Staten Island.
He hid behind a tree to wait for nightfall, but his plan was stymied when he found another person lurking in the shadows.
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Contractors were due to remove the tree on Tuesday but Mr Snow, a joiner from Scarborough, climbed into its branches, preventing its removal.
Most people see them in flower arrangements, but here it's the size of a small palm tree.
Hunter Mahan's tee shot on the 15th hole got stuck high up in a tree, leading to double bogey, but then he rolled in an eagle putt from off the 16th green.
Later in the week, I was also part of the tens of thousands of people on the streets near Rockefeller centre for a cold but nice evening to watch the new Christmas tree.
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From there, an easy 10-minute hike to the falls takes you through Kaiteur National Park, where you are unlikely to see other groups of tourists but you can catch a glimpse toucans, macaws and golden tree frogs.
But as soon as the droplets brush something solid such as a tree branch, they freeze instantly.
Caijing is a woodpecker, she says, forever hammering at a tree, trying not to knock it down but to make it grow straighter.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
An old Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was twenty-five years ago, but the second best time is now.
But if those advocating a euro breakup are barking up the wrong tree, so too are those arguing for the immediate creation of common euro-zone bonds and a banking union.
But they certainly draw the eye when you see one in a London tree.
But when Ivanka hits her drive, the ball careens into a nearby tree.
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But first, for many African Americans the idea of tracing a family tree has been little more than a dream.
His beard clearly wasn't real, and he looked younger than the first Santa, but he impressed Gabby with a Santa's Workshop backdrop and lighted tree.
But what Jonathan Routh preferred to do was to dress up as a tree, wait at a bus stop and enquire which bus would take him to Sherwood Forest.
But where it should have seen the forest, it found only a single tree to chop down.
But we are hoping he is alive and his parachute got stuck in a tree or something.
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