Mail Order Trees

Online tree nursery for ornamental and fruit trees with UK delivery

Mail Order Trees is a nursery that sells trees, shrubs and garden plants by mail order and through its online shop, with delivery throughout the UK. Its catalogue is organised by major botanical families and by garden uses, making it easy to find specimens for the intended spot in the garden.

Ornamental trees

The ornamental tree range covers a wide list of genera and species: Japanese maples and sycamores, horse chestnuts, alders, amelanchier, birches, hornbeams, catalpas, katsura, Judas trees, cotoneaster, hawthorns, brooms, dove trees, eucalyptus, spindles, beeches, honey locusts, ginkgo, koelreuteria, laburnums, liquidambar, bay, tulip trees, magnolias, crab apples, dawn redwoods, nyssa, parrotia, photinia, bamboo, London plane, poplars, flowering cherries, ornamental plums and almonds, ornamental pears, oaks, sumacs, robinias, willows, rowans, lilacs and limes.

Fruit trees, nuts and soft fruit

The fruit range includes apples, apricots, cherries, damsons, figs, greengages, hazels, medlars, mulberries, nectarines, olives, peaches, pears, plums, quinces, sweet chestnuts and walnuts. Soft fruit includes blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, boysenberries, cranberries, gooseberries, grape vines, kiwi, loganberries, raspberries, redcurrants, rhubarb, tayberries, whitecurrants and wineberries.

Shrubs, climbers, conifers and grasses

The shrub section brings together genera such as abelia, strawberry trees, aucuba, berberis, buddlejas, box, callistemon, caryopteris, ceanothus, choisya, cistus, cordyline, dogwoods, elaeagnus, escallonia, spindles, exochorda, fatsia, fuchsias, witch hazels, hebe, hydrangeas, St John's wort, holly, bay, lavender, privet, honeysuckle, mahonia, nandina, olearia, osmanthus, bamboo, phormium, philadelphus, photinia, pieris, pittosporum, potentilla, cherry laurel, pyracantha, rosemary, sarcococca, elder, viburnum, vinca and weigela. Climbers include abutilon, actinidia, campsis, fatshedera, ivy, climbing hydrangea, jasmine, honeysuckle, parthenocissus, passion flower, solanum, trachelospermum, ornamental grape vine and wisteria. The catalogue is completed with conifers such as firs, monkey puzzle, cedars, chamaecyparis, cryptomeria, cupressocyparis, junipers, dawn redwood, spruces, pines, podocarpus, yews and thuja, as well as grasses from the genera carex, cortaderia, festuca, helictotrichon, holcus, miscanthus, molinia, pennisetum, phalaris and stipa.

Selection by use and characteristics

The site allows plants to be filtered by their function in the garden: attracting wildlife, beds and borders, city and courtyard gardens, cottage and informal style, fruit production, fruit for preserves and jams, ground cover, low maintenance, ornamental use, patio and container growing, pleaching, rockery, screening, specimen plants, wallside borders, windbreaks and woodland planting. They are also grouped by traits such as catkins, disease resistance, fragrant flowers, good autumn colour, heavy cropping, pollution resistance, berry production, prolific flowering, scented foliage, very compact habit and very hardy. For fruit trees, criteria such as the RHS Award of Garden Merit, long storage life, pollination groups 1 to 5, dual purpose, cider fruit, preserving and juicing are added.

Two-for-one offer and informative content

The homepage announces a two-for-one promotion on ornamental trees and highlights sections on flowering cherries, birches and fruit and nut trees. The site also maintains a blog with gardening news and advice, as well as gift cards and a wish list for the customer account.

Commitment to carbon capture

The company presents a counter of carbon sequestered by its trees since 2008 and explains that capture capacity increases as young specimens grow, so planting and caring for trees helps reduce the gardener's carbon footprint.

Location and contact

Phone: 01638 724992 · Email: info@mailordertrees.co.uk