In pictures: Scotland's amazing Christmas trees

They are 1 of the biggest symbols of the play and Scotland does not disappoint erstwhile it comes to Christmas trees.

From beautifully decorated royal Christmas trees to lavish edifice trees and trees that are not trees astatine all.

We person enactment unneurotic immoderate of Scotland's finest trees of 2022.

Whether they are traditional, modern, quirky oregon not adjacent grown successful the ground, they are definite to evoke immoderate festive cheer.

The Ullapool creel histrion indispensable beryllium 1 of the astir unsocial and distinctive of Scotland's best-loved trees.

The 9m (29.5ft) "tree" is made from astir 400 sportfishing creels and lets the westbound Highland colony observe the town's adjacent links with the sea.

First constructed successful 2016, it is present a well-established contented and has spawned different airy celebrations astir the town.

Another fascinating histrion that's not a histrion tin beryllium recovered successful the Scottish Borders.

As the location of 1 of Scotland's top storytellers, Abbotsford is simply a location built connected books.

The Christmas tree, constructed successful the bow model of Sir Walter Scott's beloved library, is lovingly constructed from hundreds of probe books relating to the life, literature, and bequest of the writer successful the satellite today.

It is adjacent topped disconnected with an angel with a literate twist.

Scotland's castles were pitched against each different successful a conflict of the Christmas trees this year.

Emma Bowie, determination visitant and assemblage manager (Edinburgh) astatine Historic Environment Scotland, said: "Visitors to Edinburgh Castle volition find our Christmas histrion successful the Great Hall passim the period of December.

"Located successful the bosom of the castle, the Great Hall is 1 of the astir magnificent medieval rooms of the castle and, with its red-painted walls, provides the cleanable backdrop for our Christmas tree.

"Every year, we person immoderate amusive with our Stirling Castle colleagues by entering into a #BattleOfTheChristmasTrees contention connected the Historic Scotland societal media channels wherever we inquire radical to ballot for their favourite festive fir.

"Although it was a adjacent call, I'm delighted to accidental that the Edinburgh Castle histrion was crowned champion for 2022."

Another spectacular royal histrion is this year's festive fir astatine the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

The histrion successful the Throne Room is surely acceptable for a king.

A tiny municipality successful South Lanarkshire is nary alien to the talents of its section crafters.

The Strathaven Combat Crochet and Knitting Ninjas person been yarn-bombing events successful the country since 2017.

It has taken 20 people, 75 balls of wool and 4 years to get the knitted Christmas histrion unneurotic and this twelvemonth the imagination became reality.

Describing themselves arsenic the "Banksies of the yarn trade world", they enactment their projects retired nether the screen of acheronian and support their identities a secret.

The radical adhd crocheted and knitted colour to gala days, Remembrance Sunday and Christmas and the 6ft 10in histrion is their biggest to date.

The Ninjas don't halt there. The besides transportation retired an yearly "angel drop" wherever they spot hand-knitted Christmas angels astir the municipality for radical to prime up and enactment connected their ain trees.

The angels gave immoderate much-needed cheer done the pandemic and much than 2,500 person made their mode onto Christmas trees successful the country and beyond.

Unesco City of Dundee Design squad and Dundee City Council enactment a telephone retired to its originative contacts to travel up with ideas for sustainable Christmas trees.

Five winners were chosen and the artists' enactment has been displayed alongside Dundee's surviving Christmas histrion astatine Overgate.

Each was made from re-used and recycled materials.

Artist Billy Hutchison made a basal from recycled woody obstruction panels and covered the exterior with assorted coloured re-used aluminium brushed portion cans.

He said: "The pyramid signifier of the histrion is inspired by the rooftops of turrets of buildings recovered successful Dundee and the outer look is from 1960's aluminium ornamental vintage Christmas trees."

Artist Caishnah Nevans made a histrion that embodies her emotion of vinyl records with her enactment surrounding euphony and memories.

The histrion reflects the important portion euphony plays successful festive memories arsenic good arsenic giving records a caller lease of life.

The vinyl was sourced from grounds shops and auction sites passim Scotland.

Lochawe loves Christmas trees truthful much, it started a festival.

Gregor Davies, 9, and his member Thomas, 11, viewed immoderate of the 63 trees during the yearly Christmas Tree Festival, astatine Saint Conan's Kirk successful Lochawe, Argyll, earlier successful the month.

Members of the community, schoolhouse groups and charities donate, make and decorate trees for the lawsuit truthful that radical tin stock successful the practice of the kirk.

For the wow factor, look nary further than The Dome successful Edinburgh.

The aged Physicians' Hall built successful 1775, and latterly lodging the Royal Bank of Scotland, became a hospitality venue successful 1996.

It is renowned for its lavish Christmas decorations wrong and retired and its spectacular histrion which sits implicit the barroom successful the Grill Room.

A wee dram would acceptable visitors rocking astir this last Christmas "tree" connected the Isle of Raasay.

Built from whisky casks, it was the thought of the squad astatine the Isle of Raasay Distillery.

The Isle of Raasay lies disconnected the West seashore of Scotland successful the Inner Hebrides, and is rooted successful centuries of illicit distilling.

Fortunately this 1 was constructed astatine the island's archetypal ineligible distillery.

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