I don't know so much about Sweden, but Norwegians have a verb 'drysse' for what the trees do with their leaves. Essentially it's the shedding of them after the trees have dried out in the indoor (and rootless) environment. You can pay two or three times as much and get an 'edelgrann', or 'noble fir', which holds on to its leaves. It's the spruce that loses its leaves though, and for many that's the only tree that can be called Christmas.
I once sold a Danish edelgrann to the Norwegian prime minister, and not a penny of it went through the books.
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