I ordered this 6’ tree last year. I a, 4 ft. 9 14inches tall. There is no way I should be able to place a topper on a 6 ft. Tree without a step stool, but I did. What I received was a tree with a 1 ft. Long base and the branch for the topper was a ft. Long, with the actual tree being 4 ft. That is why I am ordering another tree this year, a 7.5 ft tree. Hopefully the tree itself is at least 7 ft, that will take my tree decorations, of which I barely used 12 of on the tree you sent me last year.