One of KwaZulu-Natal's most trusted names in landscaping
Family-run and deeply rooted, we've spent years earning the trust of landscapers across the province, one well-grown plant at a time. If we haven't got it, we'll find who has.
Planting on siteContract tree workA finished garden
Featured project
The Liberty Life Roof Garden, Durban.
Tall Trees supplied the plants for this rooftop garden and assisted with the installation, from bare concrete to a full, established garden.
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After
The full journey, step by step
1. Selecting the plants
2. Installing on site
3. Settling in
4. Fully established
Who we are
A heritage built on genuine love for the work.
Tall Trees, trading as UniPro, has spent years growing and selling trees, shrubs and plants to the nursery and landscaping trade from our farm near Durban. What started as one family's passion for plants has grown into a name landscapers across KwaZulu-Natal know and trust, without ever losing the personal touch that built it.
What we don't grow ourselves, we can usually track down. Years in the trade have built us a wide circle of growers and suppliers to call on, and for design or contract work, we bring in qualified horticulturists and forestry professionals who care about getting it right.
The backbone of the business, with green fingers, whatever she plants seems to grow.
General Supervisor · 2IC
Michael Mkhanya
Second in command on the ground
Runs operations day to day, and keeps the landscaping team moving on site.
Design · Contracts
Richard Duke-Norris
N.Dip Horticulture · BSc Forest Science
Our professional outside help on design and contract management.
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Architectural & Landscape Design
Peter Bretherton
48 years in landscaping & architectural design
Designing gardens since the late 1970s, with decades consulting on large-scale gardens across KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape, and more recently branching into architectural and interior design. President of the Durban and Coast Horticultural Society, and co-founder of the Association of Garden Judges.
Every person here, from the nursery floor to design and contracts, shares one thing: a real love for what grows.
Our landscaping crew, on site and getting it done
Our approach
How we keep the supply chain full.
Four ways of working, layered on top of each other.
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We grow and sell
A wide variety of plants grown right here on the farm.
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We source
Ties with other growers and suppliers, for what we don't grow.
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We specialise, and go wider
Trees and shrubs first, but well beyond that too.
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We bring in expertise
Horticulturists and forestry pros, on call.
What we do
What lands on the truck.
Supply
Sell plants
Grow plants
Find plants
Buy plants
Projects
Design gardens & landscapes
Project manage contracts
Customers first, always. Service is what keeps people coming back.
Specialist stock
Cycads
Among the oldest seed plants alive today, and the one thing in the nursery we're fussiest about getting right.
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Encephalartos and Stangeria species native to Southern Africa, from common landscaping stock to some of the rarest cycads in the world.
E. altensteiniiEastern Cape giant cycad
E. natalensisNatal cycad
E. feroxThorny cycad
E. villosusPoor man's cycad
E. lehmanniiKaroo cycad
E. woodiiExtinct in the wild
See it in action
A landscaping project, start to finish.
A look at one of our recent contract jobs, from planting to finished garden.
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