About Us
Trees by Post was established in 2003 by husband and wife team, Ed and Louisa, after trying to buy some beech hedging for their first garden and soon realised how difficult it was for the non-wholesale customer. Back then, garden centres were sparse in their region and the ones that did exist, did not stock hedging plants. They found the tree nurseries were only selling to commercial customers in extremely large quantities!
So the idea was born – supplying good quality, locally grown from British seed, trees and hedging to any customer in any quantity in any part of the UK.
Working with high quality, trusted nurseries, Trees by Post is still going strong today and have expanded their lines over the years to include wildflowers, shrubs and water marginal plants.
Using British seed and grown in Scotland, the trees and hedging are all grown in cell trays, commonly known as Rootrainers. These plants have many advantages over their bare-root cousins:
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Cell-grown tree plants can be safely delivered from the nursery and planted all year round without damage to the roots. Bare-root can only be dug up, delivered and planted within the dormant season (winter months).
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Cell-grown tree saplings can be held for several weeks if planting is delayed, provided they are upright in a sheltered position and the root plugs are kept moist. Whereas bare-root plants must be planted out immediately upon arrival.
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Cell-grown saplings arrive at the customer with a fully functional root system. Bare-root plants inevitably suffer damage and consequent stress when they are lifted from the nursery beds.
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The root systems on cell-grown plants remain intact and fine fibrous feeding roots are sent out with the plant enabling rapid establishment once planted out. There is relatively little “check” period when a cell-grown plant is planted out compared to a bare-root specimen.
As well as selling tree saplings and hedging plants, Trees by Post have a British Wildflowers and Garden Shrubs range selling plant plugs grown from seed, a Water Marginals and Reed section which also fulfils orders for reed bed filtration systems; and a Tree Gift range for weddings, christenings, thank-yous, in memorium and special occasions. For the tree gift range, a single tree is delivered in a pouch inside a specially designed box that fits through the letter box, along with your gift message card and instructions.
For all enquiries:
info@treesbypost.com