It's 8.8 metres high and cost a total of $31,562, but to two-year-old Imogen Woller, it is simply "beautiful".
Last week contractors installed Stratford's new Christmas tree, and it is already attracting admiring glances. Imogen and her parents had been visiting the library on Monday when the excitable toddler spotted the tree.
"She had to come and see it, she was so excited," says her mother, Cindy.
Imogen was particularly taken with the star at the top of the tree, and says while her family have a tree at home as well, "it's only little, not big like this one".
Director of community services at Stratford District Council, Kate Whareaitu, says the tree was funded through a grant of $7000 from the TET, and a donation of $8000 from the Stratford Business Association, with the remaining amount covered by Stratford District Council.