About Us

Sending Trees & Shrubs as eco friendly Gifts. 

The idea for Trees Direct was started around the dining table in 1999. We became very excited and began to think we could create a business and help the environment. A mail order company sending ‘Trees as Gifts’ was the new way forward.

 With no knowledge of IT or mail order companies we were very green in the literal sense. Starting out in Christmas 1999 with only our knowledge of horticulture and our love of trees threw us in at the deep end. We did it and 10 years later we are still here. Our thoughts, worries and care for the environment still a predominant factor in the running of our business.

 We are still a family run company and not a ‘Virtual Site’ like so many mail order companies. Our trees are kept on site and cared for week in, week out through rain and shine. Most of our trees and shrubs are naturally grown outdoors in England and those like Olives and Citrus are given time to rest and acclimatise before being sent out. We offer gifts for all gardens and offer competitive rates for large plantings and designer projects.

 We still have our very popular Tree Search where we find a special tree not on our website. We believe we are one of the few companies who will devote time and attention in working with our customers to offer this service.

Spraying is kept to the minimum and the trees are grown as environmentally as possible. Lovingly attended to, we check all our stock to make sure they are healthy before being packed and sent out using recycled materials. All our plants are potted, dressed in our hessian sacks, with ribbons, a hand written gift card and planting instructions. The gifts are sent out overnight delivery to arrive on our customer’s specified date. 

On the Corporate side, we continue to work with many companies with excellent feedback. We have sent out as many as a 1000 trees for one company showing that more companies are seeing this as the way forward to help the environment, combat the effects of carbon emissions and being more responsible for the future.

We were recently involved with a charity Conservation Foundation sending out a new strain of Elm to schools across the country and are very proud to announce that we will represent them in selling Elms on our site. We continue to work with companies sending out trees as gifts or for promotions. It improves their image, shows they care and most importantly helps our fragile environment and the wildlife reliant on it to survive and grow. 

Although we have had many people who have taken up our idea, ‘and our hessian sack’ and perhaps expanded it we are very proud to have been the first to send out Trees as Gifts. We have shown that one can run a viable business and care for the environment. We will continue working to influence companies, communities and other countries to strive for a better, cleaner world for the future of our children.