Trees for Tomorrow

Friendship Trees * Celebration Trees * Sympathy Trees
* Trees as Carbon Offsets *

Planting trees is a great gift idea. Ideal for birthdays, naming ceremonies and memorials, trees affirm the various seasons of life. For milestone birthdays and anniversaries, if asked for gift ideas, why not invite your friends to plant trees in your name?

For R125.00 we will plant your Gift Tree and send a forest greeting card with a personalized message informing your chosen recipient of the tree planted for them. If you prefer to write you own message, a blank card will be sent to your specified address. Click here to open the form to sponsor a tree at Platbos.

Trees cost R70.00 (excl VAT). The forest greeting card (optional) costs R45.00 (including postage).

Planting trees is one way to offset your carbon footprint. During its lifetime, one tree will absorb and store between one to three tonnes of carbon dioxide. Current research suggests that natural, ecologically diverse forest systems are more effective as carbon sinks than monoculture forest plantations. Read more about how you can calculate your carbon footprint and the steps you can take to reduce it on our global warming and climate change page.
Trees cost R70.00 (excl VAT) each. This includes an e-certificate with your name, tree planting record and the approximate carbon offset value.

Whether it's planting a tree in honour of someone special, or sponsoring tree planting to offset your carbon footprint, your trees assist us in realizing our aim to conserve and rehabilitate this unique forest.

Thank you for supporting Platbos Forest.

Click here to order your Gift Trees or Carbon Footprint Trees.

Or Contact us by email to arrange planting a tree at Platbos Forest.

Read more about where these trees will be planted on the Reforestation page.

Read more about "Trees for Tomorrow" on our Reforestation Project page.

If you book a walk at Platbos, please mention that you have sponsored the planting of a tree and we will arrange to show you where your tree or trees have been planted.

"For in the true nature of things...every green tree is more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver" - Martin Luther King.

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself." - William Blake, 1799, The Letters.

"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines." - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862.

"Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness." - Kahlil Gibran.

"Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good." - Sara Ebenreck.

"He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him." - Henry Van Dyke.