wearesilvertree.co.uk
One Gloucestershire company grown into four specialist businesses: tree surgery and grounds care, plant nurseries, biomass fuel, and industry training.
Silver Tree started as a tree surgery firm and grew the way healthy trees do: outward from a strong core. Today the group covers arboriculture, grounds maintenance, plant nurseries, biomass fuel, and accredited training, all run from Gloucestershire by the same family team.
Silver Tree was founded in [2004 by Paul Craddock as a tree surgery business. Over the following years the work broadened from arboriculture into grounds maintenance and landscaping, and the company grew to more than 30 staff. As the range of services expanded, the business was organised into a group, Silver Tree, made up of four divisions: Services, Nurseries, Biomass and Training. Services remains the core of the group and the part of the business most customers deal with directly.
It is a family-run company. Paul continues to lead it as Director, and family members work across the operation, including in day-to-day operations management. The group is based in Gloucestershire and works across the county, the surrounding South West and nationwide.
Operating as a group rather than a set of separate businesses gives customers a consistent standard of work on every job. The Services division holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification and is an ARB Approved Contractor, and those standards, along with shared equipment, trained staff and a single line of accountability, apply across every branch. Whether the work is tree surgery, grounds maintenance or landscaping, it is delivered by the same organisation to the same standard, and the group can draw on the right people and machinery from across its divisions for any given job.
In 1830, Stroud engineer Edwin Beard Budding invented the lawnmower, and the way the world cares for its green spaces changed forever.
Nearly two centuries later, Paul Craddock founded Silver Tree in the same town. Different tools, same ground: the arboriculture and landscaping tradition of Stroud and Gloucestershire, carried on by people who work its trees, hedgerows and gardens every day.
We tell you what a job actually needs, not what sells. If a tree is safe to leave or a smaller piece of work will do, we will say so.
Our Services division holds ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification and is an ARB Approved Contractor. These are audited standards, not badges we have awarded ourselves.
Timber and green waste from our tree work feed straight into the group, through our Biomass and Nurseries divisions. Material that other contractors pay to dump, we put back to use.
Each branch has its own site, team and specialism. Pick the one you need; the standards behind them are shared.
Tree Surgery · Grounds
Tree surgery to BS3998, grounds maintenance, landscaping and fencing for homes, businesses and the public sector. ARB Approved, ISO 9001 and 14001.
silvertreeservices.co.uk
Trees · Hedging · Plants
Nursery-grown trees, hedging and plants for gardens, estates and landscaping projects.
silvertreenurseries.co.uk
Woodchip · Fuel
Biomass woodchip fuel produced from our own arisings: nothing from our tree work goes to waste.
Visit the biomass page
Courses Accredited vocational training in First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, Food Safety, Health & Safety, De-escalation, delivered by people who do the job every day.
silvertreetraining.co.ukCall the office and we'll point you to the right team. One number reaches all four businesses.
01242 472560