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Tree Ferns (New Zealand) Limited is a New Zealand based company devoted to the export of garden oriented products that are uniquely New Zealand.

The company was established in 1997 to become the leading professional exporter of unique New Zealand garden products. Today, through continual innovation and flexibility we now export a wide range of products as outlined below:

Nursery Products:
Live tree ferns and ground ferns

Tree Fern Manufactured Products:
Tree fern planter pots, Tree fern orchid slabs, Tree fern plant stakes, Tree fern orchid fibre and Tree fern landscaping poles.

Garden furniture:
Unique outdoor Kiwi vine furniture.

Company manager Alan Ford has been involved with the export of New Zealand garden products for 17 years and is well versed in exporting from New Zealand.
The company has built a strong and satisfied customer base in countries such as Britain, Canada, USA, and Japan and we are continually looking to expand into new markets all around the world.
We are dedicated to building strong relationships by meeting the changing needs of our valued customers and supplying consistently high quality products.
We are also committed to protecting the environment by only supplying tree ferns from amongst plantation forests. These tree ferns will be destroyed during the logging process unless we extract them.

We now have a United States outlet in operation. Please click on USA inquiries in the menu bar for contact details.

Name of Company:
Tree Ferns (New Zealand) Limited.

Company Owner:
Alan J. Ford.

Head Office:
Westpac Trust Building, level 2,
Haszard Street
Waihi
North Island
New Zealand.

Phone: +64 7 863 7706
Fax: +64 7 863 7706
Mobile: +64212777465

Nursery Base:
Central North Island, New Zealand.

Established:
1997.

Nature of Business:
Export of uniquely New Zealand Garden products, Live Treeferns

Above: Tree ferns on the edge of a plantation of Pseudotsuga-menziesii (Douglas Fir).

As a supplier of a product that has recently come under attack from WWF and other conservation groups, I would like to explain to our customers how we source our tree fern trunks and why you can consider our company a safe option as a conservation conscious supplier of environment friendly products.

Tree Ferns (New Zealand) Limited has secured an on-going licence to remove tree ferns and ground ferns from one of the largest man-made radiata pine plantations in the world.

The plantation, which is situated in the central North Island, is not indigenous to New Zealand. Planting began here in 1902 and there is now a huge production forest totalling 281,000 hectares (694,000 acres) which is harvested on a rotational basis.

During the time between planting and harvesting of Radiata pine and Pseudotsuga-menziesii (28 to 50 years), tree ferns self seed and flourish amongst the pines. Before the plantation owners harvest a block, we are notified and all the tree ferns are removed before they are destroyed.

So in fact we are saving a unique and prehistoric plant, not removing it from its natural environment or causing our indigenous rain forest to disappear.

This means we can supply these relocated tree ferns for the long term because our supply is fully sustainable.

Above: Tree ferns amongst plantation forest in the Central North Island, New Zealand. Note the absence of tree ferns inthe logged area, foreground.

Above: This mixed stand of tree ferns has self-seeded and matured amongst 40-50 year old Pseudotsuga-menziesii (Douglas Fir). The best specimens were removed just prior to logging.