Irish Christmas Tree Growers
Irelands maritime climate provides ideal conditions for the growing of top quality Christmas trees. The Irish Christmas Tree Growers represents those growers who are committed to producing trees to the highest standards and in an environmentally sustainable and professional manner.
Love A Real Tree
Irish Christmas Tree production has matured over the years and the product offered is now one of the best in Europe. Growers produce a variety of species and are happy working in partnership with retailers to provide the best possible product for the consumer.
Quality Christmas Trees for the Trade
"You can be confident of quality by sourcing your trees from a member of our group.On this web site you will find a list of growers able to supply retailers throughout Ireland and the UK with top notch trees at competitive prices - the members page highlights those who supply trees to the trade."
Joe Flynn
Chairperson, ICTG
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Handling Real Trees
Christmas trees will often arrive netted and compressed on pallets. This aids handling and transportation and protects the trees in transit. Growers will aim to net and palletise the trees just before they are dispatched.On delivery they must be removed from the pallets as soon as possible (care should be taken as the trees are under compression). If trees are left stored in pallets they can degrade rapidly. Pallets are for transportation and not storage. Consider aranging a split delivery allowing you to have trees for sale that are only recently harvested.
Trees should be stored upright, preferably out of their nets and in a sheltered spot. Wind can cause the trees to dry out more quickly.
Retailers are encouraged to provide tree care advise to their customers. Key is the use of a stand that allows the tree to be watered and to avoid sources of heat such as fires and radiators.
A tree only begins to degrade when it goes indoors, kept outdoors in December a tree will remain fresh through to the end of January. Selling cut trees in November, and expecting them to be in an immaculate condition come the new year, is fraught if they are not cared for properly.
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Telephone: 00353(52)6136384Mobile Phone: 00353(86)2669640Address
Irish Christmas Tree Growers,
Joe Flynn,
Kilnamack East,
Clonmel,
Co Tipperary,
E91 KR62,
Ireland.Email
[email protected]