Set yourself apart from the rest with our range of navy or black Christmas trees for a sharp and modern feel. This dramatic Canadian Blue Green spruce features dense foliage composed of soft yet sturdy needles in blue-green and silvery hues, with light-brown tinted stems for added depth.

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The cashmere one gives your tree a soft-blurry feel whilst the twig trees are ideal for a minimalistic look. The tree is simple to set up - it comes in three sections, which slot together and then into the metal stand provided; the branches are hinged and need to be pulled down into place. Once it's up and built, we recommend you spend a little time tweaking and teasing the branches to give them a thick and full look. This is the gold standard of faux trees: the branches are based on clippings from real Nordmann firs and have needles that are a dark waxy green on top, and gently curved to reveal a silvery underside - just like the real thing. There’s no need to decorate this, meaning it creates an instant wow factor as soon as you’ve got it up and fluffed out the branches.

Remember that you don’t have to plump for the most realistic artificial Christmas tree; twig trees, which were hugely popular last year, look set to be again this Christmas. This 4ft high frosted tree makes an excellent secondary addition - either in the garden or in the hall or porch. You would need to use an artificial Christmas tree for 10 years for it to be more environmentally friendly than a real Christmas tree. Next, lower the hinged branches and spend some time tweaking and teasing them so they're thick and bushy. This is thanks to a more extensive design process, enabling makers to craft more realistic branches and tips: “I can’t tell you how much goes into designing our faux collection to make every branch look as close to the real thing as possible,” says Chrissie Rucker, founder of White Company.Enter the artificial Christmas tree, which these days is a far cry from the cheap-looking options of old. Get a full front luxe look of a traditional 6ft Christmas tree but only take up half the floor space. More realistic trees (like those from John Lewis, The White Company and Balsam Hill, above) have more branches and, importantly, more branch tips. The products or services listed have been selected independently by journalists after hands-on testing or sourcing expert opinions. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

It is easy to assemble but be warned: the branches take quite a while to unfurl and twist into shape. America’s Balsam Hill, who make some of the best artificial Christmas trees, base the branches for their faux Nordmann firs on clippings from real trees. New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . The plastic pot it comes in is fine, but you might want to display it in something more decorative, or even a spare terracotta from the garden.Easy to assemble, just slot the pieces together and into the base, then lower the hinged branches into place. The branches are made from PVC rather than moulded PE tips, but the colour is a nice, natural-looking green (albeit a flat colour compared with the more nuanced tones of the premium options). Or grab one of our fibre optics or pre-lit Christmas trees to make decorating quick and easy this Christmas. So, enjoy decorating your new favourite purchase; some of the artificial Christmas trees in our edit even come pre-lit, meaning no faffing around untangling strings of lights (even more of those this way). I spent some time trying out all this year’s best artificial trees and you can read my reviews further down, followed by some advice on how to tell a good artificial Christmas tree from a bad one, as well as a guide to size, weight, materials and tip count.

This very sweet 90cm high tree has realistic-looking silvery-green branches, pre lit with warm-LED bulbs on a six-hour timer and can be kept outside. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The tree slots together easily, and the branches only need a quick tweak and tease to give you a thick and full looking tree. The Twinkly Light Show option has just 480, but they can be controlled from a smartphone app for a variety of effects. It's generously bushy with eight different light settings so you can find the right ambience for you.