Creole Christmas tree Arrived

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Date:19/08/2021

Time:1:00 am

Author:Urjani Chénier Micklè

As we prepare for Noël (Christmas), we were very elated that our arbre Noël (Christmas tree) arrived through the mail carrier via Amazon. In my order information in my Amazon account, my order stated that the Christmas tree arrive with a week and it arrived at our door, a few days earlier than expected. Our Creole Christmas tree arrived in the typical live plant brown cardboard shipping box. Our Christmas tree arrived intact and no damage to the box. The seller and gardener are very professional and we are very impressed by this seller.

You May be asking yourself, “What is a Creole Christmas Tree?”. A Creole Christmas is a Louisiana Wax Myrtle tree that is known to grow in batture, swamps and barrier islands located at the foot of the State of Louisiana and Mississippi. One such barrier island is known to the Gulf Coast as Cat’s Island which use to be predominantly by the Mississippi Wax Myrtle trees. The Mississippi Cat’s island received its name from the French inhabitants that saw large numbers of raccoons, unfamiliar to the French visitor, they mistakenly took the raccoons for cats. The Louisiana Wax Myrtle tree, is one of many trees native to the barrier islands that help mainland cities such as New Orleans, and Natchez from on coming Hurricanes.

Louisiana Creoles, both Upper Louisiana and Lower Louisiana were and still got most very religious people. The celebration of Christmas and other Holidays were not in Creole homes done in the way Americans traditionally celebrate today. Creoles are historically known to have a Roman Catholic religious origination. It is because of the France and Spanish predominantly cultural makeup of Roman Catholicism with us Creoles, Noël was in the past and current for most, a religious affair. The celebrating of Christmas was an American custom that was brought over by the English and British settlers. The Roman Catholic French and German speaking German and Swisses as they assimilated into Louisiana Creoles community and society, ntroduced the Louisiana and West Floridan Creoles to the custom of the Christmas tree. New Orleans Creoles were no different. The First documented Christmas tree by the New Orleans Creoles was the Famous Louisiana Wax Myrtle tree.

Last year, sometime after Pâque (Easter), our potted arbre Noël (Christmas tree) died. We ordered a new arbre Noël from a gardener located in Texas. The arbre Noël was the same height and weight our current tree was but when it arrived, the arbre was died on arrival. Upon opening the shipping and handling cardboard box, the arbre leaves were falling off and most of the leaves were not green. I am aware that in the fall, the wax Myrtle tree prepare itself for winter and slowly becomes dormit. However, when we planted the arbre the same day it arrived, the tree developed problems and instead of going to sleep, the arbre was dying.