Shade & Flowering Trees


Container grown Trees specifically for Retail Garden Centers in #7, #15 and #25 sizes that offer tremendous variety, selection and multiple retail price points for many selections. Flowering, Shade, Fruit, Native, Wildlife Beneficial, Rare and Unusual, in sizes most desired by your customers today.


Eaton Farms is the PREMIER grower of containerized Dogwood and Redbud varieties. Eaton Farms also offers many other popular flowering trees that include many cherries, crabapples and other highly desired flowering types such as Stewartia, Styrax and Oxydendron. Shade Trees continue to make a comeback with the environmental priority movement and we continue to add to our production new and proven choices that include Cercidiphylum, Sweetgum selections and many traditionals.


To make our Retail Tree line complete for any Garden Center, Eaton Farms has expanded our products to include specialty evergreens and specialty trees that include many weeping and hard to find trees. Blue Atlas Cedar, Beech varieties, Hibiscus and Hydrangea tree form, Blue Spruce and White Pine specialty forms, as well as traditional forms. All these in addition to many Japanese Maple varieties we grow. We can supply your Garden Center all season long.


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TREES ARE WHAT WE DO BEST!


WHAT DO WE MEAN BY GARDEN CENTER TREE: Developed by Eaton Farms over 15 years ago, the garden center grade has become the “A” standard for our industry’s retail tree market. Our garden center grade is the ideal size for retail sale, grown for just that purpose from the start — a manageable, attractive package that can be sold for a healthy profit margin and possesses tremendous customer value. Eaton Farms’ standards of what constitutes value in a retail tree package led us to develop the garden center grade — no other grower has a program that matches or compares to ours.


Not all trees measure up to our standard of quality. Our garden center grade sizes possess excellent branching habits, straight trunks and healthy root masses, if they don’t they’re not shipped out — it’s that simple.


Retail tree sales made easy! A tree purchase is an emotional purchase, rarely an impulse sale. The decision to purchase and plant a tree is made long before the homeowner arrives at your garden center. With this being the case, the buyer needs reassurance they’re making the right decision, and choosing the right variety for their purpose. The good news for you is that trees are the one item you sell that provide the largest profit potential. The better news is that price is not a high priority in tree purchase decisions. The best news is that Eaton Farms has a program in place to allow you to be an expert in trees and promote yourself as the tree supplier in your market.


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Trees need not be inventoried. Selling trees is no longer limited to a few short weeks each spring — nor do you need to inventory trees in March for May sales, thanks to our pot in pot production method. This method solves the inventory pressures associated with retail tree sales. Tree inventory can now be managed as efficiently as any other green good. Year ‘round sales opportunities with minimal inventory. Just in time inventory supported by outstanding delivery service.


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Trees deserve top billing. Trees are the focal point of a home landscape and they should be the focal point of garden center profitability. Let us show you how to make trees the cornerstone of your sales efforts efficiently and effectively with our Garden Center Tree Program. We’ve addressed all the typical concerns.


The Benefits of Eaton Farms’ Garden Center Trees:



  • Year ‘round availability
  • Consistent grade
  • Remarkable quality
  • Increased inventory turns
  • Clean & Attractive to consumers
  • Improve gross margins and gross margin dollars
  • Outstanding sales support with Brand Partner Participation
  • Superior selection


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