A blossom season for Britain.
Plant a tree. Start a tradition. Grow a spring full of blossom. We’re helping families plant blossom trees for wildlife, memory, hope, and future generations.
Founded by Tara Button, who built Buy Me Once. Setting up as a non-profit. Your email stays private.
You’re in. One small thing that would help.
The campaign needs land — churchyards, school fields, parish greens, allotments. Could you mention Easter Trees to one local group? Vicars, headteachers, parish councillors, allotment chairs all need to hear about this from someone they know, not from us.
Here’s the whole tradition, in four words:
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1Buy.A small blossom tree, weeks before Easter.
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2Decorate.Painted eggs, edible bird food, a hope on rice paper.
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3Plant.On Easter Sunday, in your garden, pot, or community spot.
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4Return.Every spring after, watch what grew.
What does it cost? How much time?
Unlike a Christmas tree, you only pay for it once. Yours will bloom a little brighter every spring — often for a lifetime, sometimes for generations.
- £15–£90One small blossom tree from a UK nursery. Most households spend £30–£60 for a potted tree ready to bloom. Bare-root young trees start around £15 and catch up within a few years.
- £10–£20Decorating bits if you start from scratch — rice paper, edible ink pen, a few foil eggs. Cheaper if you reuse heirloom eggs each year.
- 30 minTo plant on Easter Sunday. Add a couple of hours over Lent for decorating with the household.
Joining a community planting? Same tree cost — the landowner has chosen the species, so you know exactly what to bring on the day. There’s never a fee to use the map or list a spot.
A New British Tradition Is Hatching
The first spring, people say "that's a nice idea." The third spring, "we should do that too." The tenth spring, "we've always done this." That's how a tradition starts — patchy, then everywhere.
A tree per family
Millions of blossom trees across Britain, over time. One family, one Easter — that's how a tradition starts.
Save Britain's pollinators
Spring blossom is food for bees, butterflies, and birds when they need it most.
Make Britain beautiful
A blossom season for every village, school gate, and high street — in our lifetime.
Three ways to help us bloom
The whole tradition works because of the map. Landowners open up land. Families pick a project nearby and bring a tree to it. The blossom adds up — year after year, somewhere local to you.
Find a community planting near you
Pick a planting project in your area that needs your tree to make something beautiful — a churchyard grove, a cherry ring on the green, a hedgerow on a farm. Reserve a spot and bring a tree on the day. This is the heart of Easter Trees.
Find a planting near youPlant in your own garden
No nearby project, or you'd rather plant at home? A pot on the balcony or a hole in the lawn works just as well. Bring a blossom tree home, decorate it for Easter, plant it whenever the weekend (or week) lets you.
I'm planting at homeOpen your land for a planting
Manage a garden, a field, a churchyard, school grounds, a verge? Get free trees planted on your land by your community. You set every rule — we just put a pin on the map.
Open your landHow it works
Choose your tree
Pick a potted blossom tree from a local garden centre or nursery. Our tree guide helps you find the right variety for your space — from compact balcony trees to generous community specimens.
Bring it home and decorate
Your Easter Tree is your centrepiece for the holiday weekend. Dress it with edible decorations — suet blossom shapes, seed-filled eggs, fat-ball baubles. Everything on the tree feeds the birds. It's a Christmas tree for spring, but alive.
Plant it over Easter weekend
Once you've enjoyed the tree indoors, plant it — in your garden, your school grounds, or a community spot on our map. Sunday's the symbolic day, but any time over the weekend (or the week after) works. Or if you don't have a garden, keep it in a pot on your balcony or doorstep. The birds enjoy the decorations. The tree puts down roots. And next spring, real blossom appears.
Britain's blossom season
Japan has sakura. Britain could have its own. Imagine your high street canopied in pink and white. Your children's school framed by blossom. Railway embankments transformed into rivers of flowers every spring.
It starts with one family, one tree, one Easter. The National Trust is already planting four million blossom trees. The Queen's Green Canopy proved three million people would plant a tree for a national moment. Easter Trees connects the dots — turning tree planting from a one-off campaign into a living tradition that grows, year after year, generation after generation.
Within our lifetimes, every town in Britain could have its own blossom season.
Britain's wild bees, hoverflies, and butterflies have been declining for decades. Three-quarters of butterfly species are in long-term decline; dozens of native pollinators are vanishingly rare or already gone. The cause is partly habitat — and in particular the gradual loss of flowering trees that bloom in early spring, when bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation starving and other pollinators are at their most vulnerable.
Blossom trees fix this directly. A single mature cherry, crab apple, or wild plum produces thousands of nectar-rich flowers in March and April — exactly the food, at exactly the moment, that British pollinators need to survive the year. Plant millions of them across gardens, churchyards, school fields, and verges, and the difference compounds. The trees we're planting aren't only beautiful. They're early-spring food, in volume, in places that are missing it now.
Find your tree, find your spot
Two journeys on one map. Pink pins are community planting spots — places landowners have opened up. Green pins are garden centres stocking blossom trees and Easter Tree Kits. Enter your postcode to see what's near you.
Prefer to order online? From spring 2027, you'll be able to buy a potted blossom tree or full Easter Tree Kit delivered to your door. See online stockists →
No spots near you yet — but you can change that
Easter Trees depends on local people opening up land. Here are some ideas for who to approach in your area:
- Your local church or parish — churchyards are perfect for blossom trees, and Easter is their season. Catholic churches, Church of England, Methodist chapels — all tend to have land and a reason to say yes.
- Your parish or town council — they manage parks, verges, and community spaces.
- Local schools — headteachers often love greening projects, and it's a great activity for children.
- Your landlord or housing association — communal gardens and estate grounds.
- Local farms — field margins and hedgerows.
Have land to offer? It takes two minutes to add your spot to the map. Offer your land →
Planting at home? Tell us — it tells your local garden centre too.
You don't need a community spot. A pot on a balcony or a corner of the garden is just as much a part of this. Why your postcode matters: we share aggregate demand by area with garden centres so they know to stock blossom trees in your neighbourhood. No emails are passed on — just numbers per postcode area.
Everything you need
An Easter Tree Kit contains everything for the tradition: a potted blossom tree ready to bring indoors, plus a set of handmade edible decorations. Suet blossom shapes. Seed-filled eggs. Fat-ball baubles. Every ornament feeds the birds once the tree is planted. Available from participating garden centres from March 2027.
Potted and ready
Bring it indoors for Easter weekend, plant it whenever the weekend allows.
Edible decorations
Suet blossom, seed eggs, and fat-ball baubles — all bird food.
Planting guide
Simple step-by-step instructions for planting day and aftercare.
Are you a charity, foundation, council, faith group, or business that could back this?
We'd rather build the right partnerships now than chase logos in March. If you can help Easter Trees scale credibly into 2027 — funding, reach, land networks, horticultural credibility — we'd love an early conversation.
Commit to a tree at Easter 2027
This is the most important thing on the page. Garden centres only stock blossom trees in spring 2027 if they know we’re coming. Your postcode — aggregated, never your email — is the demand signal we share with them. The more of us who commit, the more trees they order.
You’re in. One small thing that would help.
The campaign needs land — churchyards, school fields, parish greens, allotments, farm hedgerow gaps. Could you mention Easter Trees to one local group? Vicars, headteachers, parish councillors, allotment chairs — this kind of thing only spreads when it comes from someone they know.