SAN ANTONIO, Tx \u2014 The countdown to Christmas has begun and many people will be digging a little deeper in their pockets to purchase real Christmas trees this year.<\/p>\n
For over 50 years William Murphy, the owner of Murphy\u2019s Christmas Trees, has spread the holiday spirit to families by helping them find their special tree. Keeping the price low has become a challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe climate, the soil, the heat,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cThey don\u2019t grow good around here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unable to efficiently grow Christmas Trees here in San Antonio, The Christmas Tree man says each tree on his farm takes approximately eight years to grow and is shipped from Oregon and North Carolina, but not without extra cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been going up because everything cost more these days,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cFertilizer. Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christmas Tree fertilizer bags have gone up $10-$15 per bag, costing tree farmers thousands of dollars. Murphy says it\u2019s a trickle-down effect causing the cost of Christmas Trees to increase nearly 5 percent, but he absorbs the cost instead of passing it along to his customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just keep it low because I\u2019m on the poor side of town,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cI like to sell them cheap because a lot of people need money to feed their families, or to buy gifts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Tx \u2014 The countdown to Christmas has begun and many people will be digging a little…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-409878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115625491504230828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}