A tree you know. One you watered, watched and grew alongside. Something living that becomes part of your own story rather than a line in someone else’s paperwork.
Grow something that outlives you.“There is something different about leaving behind a tree you have actually known.”
THE THOUGHT THAT STARTED DEATHTREE
DeathTree begins with a simple idea: choose a young British tree while you are here. Make a place for it at home. Let the small routines of looking after it become part of ordinary life.
Over time it becomes familiar. The first new leaves. The pot that suddenly looks too small. A move out to the garden. A photograph every year with someone you love.
Then, one day, it can be a living place of remembrance — not because a tree comes with a guarantee, but because you gave it years of care and a story that people can carry forward. That is the whole of it. We are not selling a monument. We are selling a tree, and a good way to keep its story.
A beautiful sapling still needs a suitable long-term home. Every tree page says how big the species can get and what space it will eventually want, because the practical questions deserve an answer before you buy.
A record of growth, a place to keep photographs and a way to say what matters to you. Yours to export or delete whenever you want it gone.
Grow it at home, add optional annual care, or ask for an assessment when your circumstances change. No plan you cannot leave.
It names your tree, records when its story began and gives you somewhere to keep the photographs. It is a personal keepsake — not a will, not a land title, not a funeral plan and not a carbon certificate. It gives you no rights over the ground the tree stands in.
If you want your wishes to have legal effect, they belong in your will or in a funeral arrangement made with your family. Please treat what you write here as a note to the people who love you, and tell them about it while you can.
We publish no carbon figure, no offset and no environmental guarantee, because we have not measured one. What a single young tree takes up depends on its species, its soil, the weather and how long it lives. We would rather say “not measured” than invent a number that looks reassuring on a receipt.
This site does not detect a death, and it never acts on silence or inactivity. If you record a person in your tree’s notes, nothing is sent to them automatically — not by us, not by a timer. Anything of that kind would be read and handled by a person atDeathTree, after checks, or not at all.
We send young, nursery-grown British trees and tell you honestly how to look after them. We cannot promise that any living tree will thrive, and we will not pretend otherwise to make a sale. What we can promise is that if one arrives in poor condition, you tell us and we put it right.
DeathTree is a trading name of Acorn Reserve Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales under number 13242218. Registered office: Queen Street Chambers, 68 Queen Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 1WR, England.
It is a small operation, which is why you will find quoted prices rather than grand promises in a few places on this site. Every price you see is the price you pay, with delivery shown separately before you commit to anything.
If you want to ask something before you buy — about a species, about space, about what happens later — write to us at hello@deathtree.co.uk or use the contact form. A person answers.