In pictures: Scotland's amazing Christmas trees

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From royal palaces to glamorous restaurants to trees that aren't really trees.

A small town in South Lanarkshire is no stranger to the talents of its local crafters.

It has taken 20 people, 75 balls of wool and four years to get the knitted Christmas tree together and this year the dream became reality. The Ninjas don't stop there. The also carry out an annual "angel drop" where they place hand-knitted Christmas angels around the town for people to pick up and put on their own trees.

Five winners were chosen and the artists' work has been displayed alongside Dundee's living Christmas tree at Overgate.Artist Billy Hutchison made a base from recycled wooden fence panels and covered the exterior with various coloured re-used aluminium soft drink cans.

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