The best Christmas trees in London to get into the festive spirit

While we’re all still wondering if it’s not too early to put up our trees – do it!

We are truly in awe of a scintillating collection of Christmas trees popping up in the capital for public consumption.

Wrap up warm, get your selfie sticks ready and let’s get these beauties out the door with Insta…

Check out our picks from around London below.

Aqua shards

When you find yourself in a giant Christmas tree-shaped building, you don’t have to look far for inspiration. That is undoubtedly why designer Lee Broom and design brand Nude created The Glass Tree, a 10-meter high sculpture made of blown glass LED pendant lights, also in the shape of a shard. The tree is the center of attention in her 31st-floor restaurant, featuring creations from Vivienne Westwood to David Attenborough.

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Leadenhall Market

The masterpiece of Victorian architecture is a breathtaking beauty in any season, but when they take down that huge tree with its traditional ornaments in the center under the glass roof, it becomes nothing short of magical… no wonder the place used to be filmed on locations for the delivered Harry Potter movies. Fun fact!

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Covent Garden

Is it just us or does the Christmas tree in Covent Garden get more spectacular every year. Loaded with lights, in a beautiful wooden tub – huge! — and big, if you will, it’s become a must on any trip west. It doesn’t hurt that the rest of Covent Garden Market has also been spectacularly refurbished and is within easy reach of some of London’s best shops and restaurants.

St Pancras Station

You have a lot to offer when it comes to Christmas trees at St Pancras Station. In the past they have had trees from Fortnum & Mason, Disney, Tiffany and Cirque du Blinking Soleil. Then no pressure. This year it’s The Prince’s Trust’s turn, which was inspired by the London skyline, which includes St Pancras, with a tree-like building where objects fly through illuminated windows.

Trafalgar Square

In recent years there has been some controversy over the traditional tree in Trafalgar Square as it is not, well, Christmasy enough. But that’s because it’s decorated in a traditional Scandinavian style, as it’s a gift from Norway, a gift they’ve been sending since 1947 as an act of friendship to their allies at war. So rather rude to criticize. Although the vertical beams of light are not dazzling, the sheer size of the thing does not impress. Boom goes on December 1.

The Connaught Hotel

Well, you wouldn’t expect a hotel as delightful and posh as The Connaught to disappear before the old Christmas tree would you? And you would be absolutely right. Just outside the hotel is the creation specially commissioned this year by acclaimed artist Suzy Murphy, whose 10-foot-tall tree is covered in lights, created from sketches of the dog Toby, who she had as a child. “My vision was to create a tree that would symbolize my childhood,” she says. And it’s beautiful!

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Claridges

This recently unveiled Christmas tree in the lobby of London/England/the most elegant old-school hotel in the world was designed by Jimmy Choo’s Sandra Choi (yes, the man who makes the shoes), who omitted the usual greenery to complement her Forming a mirror tree with light that gives the feeling of looking straight into a diamond. A bit greenhouse-like, Claridge’s certainly can’t be faulted for being stuck with a tree like this in the past.

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