Jo Ann, I like your tree solution and Bonehead I love what you are doing for the birds. I hang apples slathered in peanut butter and seeds in my trees, too.
I have a son who has allergies and though we had real trees and natural swags and wreaths for a few years, he spent every one of those holidays sick with asthma. Poor little guy began to dread Christmas until it was all finally resolved. No more dried nature inside. So now I have reasonable facsimiles. Close as I can get to real, the tree is full of them.
