Why Choose Evertreen as Your Go-To Website for Planting Trees?

Evertreen is a website where you plant real, individually located trees — from £1.5 each, geolocated with GPS, photographed as they grow, and planted and maintained by paid local teams. Plenty of sites let you "plant a tree online". The question worth asking is what you actually receive afterwards, and whether you could find that tree if you tried.

What you get for a tree

• A specific location. GPS coordinates for your tree, not a country or a project area.
• Photographic evidence. Progress photos and field video shot by the teams on site.
• A named certificate if the tree is a gift, carrying the recipient's name and the occasion.
• An honest carbon figure. Conservative, species-specific estimates with the method published rather than one flattering headline number.
• Continuity. The teams who plant are paid to maintain the site afterwards, which is what decides whether a seedling becomes a tree.

Why traceability is the thing to judge on

Reforestation is unusually easy to claim and unusually hard to check. A planting number is a marketing metric; nobody publishes a survival number unless they are confident in it, and very few sites will show you a single tree. That is why Evertreen's model puts the coordinate first: it constrains what can be claimed, and it gives the person paying something concrete to look at.

For a company, that same property is what turns a sustainability line into evidence. Customers, auditors and increasingly regulators want to know what was actually funded — and a map is a better answer than a paragraph.

Choose your project, not just a quantity

Different sites do different work. Mangroves store exceptional amounts of carbon in their sediment and protect coastlines; tropical restoration rebuilds biodiversity fastest; degraded-land projects stabilise soil and water. You can browse live sites and species on the projects and trees pages and choose based on region or outcome, not just quantity. Site and species selection is where reforestation succeeds or fails — the reasoning is in reforestation vs afforestation.

For individuals

Plant one tree or build a forest over years. The most common personal use is gifting: a named certificate, a location on the map, and something that outlives the occasion — birthdays, weddings, new babies, thank-yous, memorials. It costs from £1.5, arrives digitally within minutes, and there is nothing to redeem or throw away. See trees as a gift and gift a tree for any occasion.

For companies

Three common patterns: a branded forest that grows year on year and feeds ESG reporting; gifting at scale with individually named certificates for clients or staff; and automated planting through the API or Shopify integration, triggered per order, per subscription or per new hire. Start by sizing your footprint with the free CO₂ calculator, then decide what you are reducing and what you are funding on top — the order that keeps a claim defensible. The full method is in how to calculate your business carbon footprint.

Where certified credits come in

Planting is a long-duration removal: a tree absorbs carbon over decades, not this quarter. If you need audited tonnes inside a reporting year, that is a different instrument — certified Verra and Gold Standard credits, retired on your behalf with registry documentation. Most organisations end up using both, for the reasons set out in tree planting vs carbon offsets.

What we're careful not to claim

Planting trees does not make a company carbon neutral on its own. Absorption estimates are estimates, which is why ours are conservative and published in how we estimate tree CO₂. Trees can die, which is why maintenance and monitoring matter more than headline planting numbers. And from 27 September 2026, EU rules restrict marketing a product to consumers as carbon neutral on the basis of offsetting — so we recommend contribution language, which is both safer and more accurate. Evertreen's work has been featured in 300+ media outlets, but the reason to choose a platform should be what it can show you, not who has written about it.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to plant a tree on Evertreen? From £1.5 per tree, with the same traceability whether you plant one or several thousand.

Can I see my tree? Yes — each tree has GPS coordinates plus progress photos and field videos from the planting team.

Where are the trees planted? Across a range of reforestation projects in different countries; you can choose the project on the trees and projects pages.

Is a tree gift delivered instantly? Yes. Certificates are delivered digitally within minutes, which makes it workable as a last-minute gift.

Do you offer certified carbon credits too? Yes, Verra and Gold Standard credits are available on request and retired in your name with documentation.

Can a business automate planting? Yes, via the API and Shopify integration — typically a tree per order, per subscriber or per employee milestone.

What happens if a tree doesn't survive? Sites are monitored and maintained by the local teams, and the published CO₂ estimates are set conservatively to allow for mortality.