Santa and Sons Christmas Trees has opened its popular tree lot in Van Nuys

As Christmas comes closer, San Fernando Valley residents start looking for the perfect Christmas tree to buy, rope onto the top of their car, and take home to decorate with their favorite ornaments and lights.

But where do the thousands of Christmas trees come from? They come from Christmas tree farms.

Santa & Sons Christmas Trees has been growing trees in Oregon since 1983. In 2001, Santa & Sons Christmas Trees opened a tree lot next to Los Angeles Valley College, turning the college’s Parking Lot G into a fun place for the holidays.

“It’s very much of a family place,” Mark Rohlfs, the owner of Santa & Sons Christmas Trees, said of the tree lot. It’s a place where children can “run around and (have) that joyful moment of picking out the Christmas tree with your family,” he added.

Santa & Sons Christmas Trees is open seven days a week from 9am to 9pm at 12901 Burbank Boulevard, Van Nuys.