Cotswold Trees

With yet another heatwave and unprecedented soil conditions we’ve paused shipment of trees until at least the last week of August.

We’re still taking orders on https://cotswoldtrees.com but we’ll hold your trees in our drip irrigated nursery until planting conditions improve.

If you’ve planted a tree already this summer, water it deeply every 2 days.

The ground is so dry across the UK it really isn't great for tree planting, so for orders placed in the next 3 weeks, we'll keep your tree safe in our irrigated nursery until late August or when planting conditions improve.

Stock is limited on some of our larger specimen trees - Silver Birch, Alder, Rowan and Bird Cherry, so if you are thinking about planting later in the year - order soon and we can hold your tree for delivery in the cooler autumn months.

Your Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) should turn up ready for the ground, not send you on a messy garden centre run.

Autumn is the absolute best time to plant a British native rowan. The soil is still warm, the roots settle peacefully before the winter chill, and by spring the tree is already at home.

Ours are grown peat-free at our Oxfordshire woodland nursery, packed carefully, and delivered straight to your door. You dig the hole, and we handle the rest with practical planting notes included.

Order your rowan for autumn planting at https://cotswoldtrees.com 🌳

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We grew this one. We're posting this one.

The tree you order isn't bought in and forwarded from a warehouse. It's the same one that came out of the ground at our Oxfordshire woodland nursery, potted up and boxed by the people who grew it.

Every single young tree is raised peat-free, British native, and packed with care by our team before we send it direct to your door.

Order direct from the grower at https://cotswoldtrees.com 🌳

Planting a tree in July drought is fighting the weather. September isn't.

We get the itch. You've spotted the spot, you want it filled now.

But a young tree put in during a dry spell spends its first months just trying to survive, not root.

Our trees are peat-free British natives, grown at our Oxfordshire woodland nursery for UK gardens and a UK climate.

So they deserve a proper UK autumn to settle in. Cooler soil, steady rain, roots reaching down before winter.

Wait a few weeks and you give them years.

Reserve your trees now for September delivery at cotswoldtrees.com, or drop us a message and we'll help you pick.
Explore our full range and find the perfect addition to your garden space. https://cotswoldtrees.com 🌳

Hazel (Corylus avellana) is one of the hardest-working natives you can settle into a British garden.

Long yellow catkins dangle through late winter, when little else is stirring. Hazelnuts ripen in September, ready for you or the squirrels. And every few years, if you coppice it, you get straight, useful poles for the garden.

Most gardeners only ever notice one of those three.

Plant a hazel now and it will keep giving back for decades, season after season 🌿

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Ever wondered how to fit an ornamental cherry into a narrow garden without it taking over?

Prunus Amanogawa is the answer. It grows upright like a flagpole, rarely spreading beyond 2m wide, yet still carries fragrant semi-double pale pink blossom each spring.

Before you choose any cherry for a tight spot, it pays to check three things. Width before height, so the tree suits the space you actually have. Fragrance, because not all ornamental cherries have it. And year-round form, from fresh green summer leaves to amber autumn tones.

It is the kind of tree that earns its place in a small garden, giving you blossom in spring and warm colour through the seasons.

Swipe for the full breakdown, using our Prunus Amanogawa as the model 🌸

Betula pendula earns its keep twice over.

That chalky white bark, smooth and bright, is the kind you find yourself running a hand along as you pass. Above it sits a light, airy canopy that throws dappled shade across the lawn all through July, never the heavy gloom of a denser tree.

A UK native, the Silver Birch settles happily into small and medium gardens without ever crowding them out.

Plant one and you are making a quiet long-term investment, not a one-season purchase. It will go on giving you that bark and that gentle summer shade for years to come.

Browse our Silver Birch at https://cotswoldtrees.com/silver-birch/ 🌳

Acer campestre, our native Field Maple, turns July afternoons into something worth standing under. Those small lobed leaves catch every shift in the sky, warm amber one minute, deep green the next.

It is a quietly generous tree for British gardens. Plant it as a hedge and it knits together into a dense, living screen. Let it grow as a specimen and it settles into a neat, rounded crown that asks very little of you.

It is also one of the best natives we grow for wildlife. The flowers feed pollinators in spring, and the canopy gives shelter and foraging to small woodland birds through the warmer months.

A native tree that earns its place in almost any garden, large or small.

Browse our range at https://cotswoldtrees.com 🌳