5 Star Trees Ltd. is committed to producing and supplying the highest quality, hardy plant stock, while running clean, environmentally friendly farms.
Through honesty, wholesome values, hard work, our detailed safety program (COR), and strict environmental practices, we will continue to create and foster long term relationships with our clients.
Our client's success, everyone's safety, and protecting the environment, are 5 Star Trees' highest priorities. We will work to our maximum capacity to ensure these are achieved.
We place great emphasis on our seed source selection, to ensure hardiness for our trading area. The following are a few of our speciality seed sources:
Our American Elm seed is collected locally from the center of Calgary.
Our Trembling Aspen seed is gathered at high elevation, in Fernie, B.C. One of its unique traits, is it leafs out later than other seed sources, making it unaffected by late spring frosts, as has occurred the last few years.
We have a beautiful crop of White Spruce maturing, with the seed collected in Cochrane, Alberta. These are very uniform and fuller branching habits than other seed sources.
Our Limber Pine, Scots Pine, Mountain Pine, and Ponderosa Pine are all locally collected seed sources, and our Douglas Fir seed is collected around Shaganappi Golf Course in Calgary.
Our Willows and Poplars are local to the High River area. We have a special license to collect specific varieties in Fish Creek Park, Calgary.
We are always working to expand our seed provenance to ensure you get the proven, hardiest plants possible.
Protecting our environment continues to be a top focus. We take the extra time and effort to fill in our harvested tree holes with freshly composted topsoil, instead of simply tilling the ground to fill in holes. This allows us to maintain our farm's soil quality indefinitely, preserving our land for future use.
New high efficient electrical irrigation pumps, coupled with low flow drip irrigation on all our fields, helps to vastly reduce our water consumption and environmental impact. The electrical pumps are much quieter than old school gas powered ones, which allows wildlife to thrive nearby. Low flow drip irrigation only waters the specific tree rows, at near 100% efficiency.
We work with local companies to collect and compost local raw material, and turn it into great soil for our trees. This keeps usable, compostable materials out of the dump, and instead, puts its potential to better use.
We love our local communities and are proud to support, and partner with, many groups and organizations each year. Our community involvement includes in-kind and financial donations, employee volunteer days, enduring nonprofit partnerships, and more.
We are a local company, our team members are local, and we support making our local community a better place for all. Check out a few of our local projects below! If interested in working with us, please contact us, and please support the great groups below.
Provided an Ecology student with our local research and trial outcomes on hardy plant varieties. This information was for a project to better understand the current ranges of some of the species they were studying.
This group hosts the children’s programming at the Okotoks public library to encourage reading throughout the summer. Studies have shown that school-age children lose many of their reading skills over the summer months, if they do not continue to read, while they are out of school. Our goal this summer is to keep children reading and make sure they have fun while doing it! We were stoked to cover the cost of a week of the program.
Read more about the program here.
Located in the Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area, 10,000 White Spruce and Lodgepole Pine were planting to honour George, who was a passionate conservationist. We provided a number of #5 White Spruce and Lodgepole pine from our local seed source, at a discounted rate, to assist in the planting goal of 10,000 plants.
Read more about the ASCCA here, and learn more about George here.
Donated larger #10-#20 plastic pots, so teachers and kids alike, can play in the dirt, and practice growing plants. The Alpine Montessori school is Toddler through Kindergarten. They have a unique focus on all things around our natural environment, and spend a lot of time teaching outdoors.
Check out the Montessori philosophy here.
Every year, this amazing silent auction raises funds to help a large number of families struggling at Christmas time. Funds also help additional families and youth, throughout the remainder of the year. The need continues to grow, so we encourage everyone to check out the auction, or donate if you are able. You will have a chance to score a donated 5 Star Trees gift certificate!
Check out the auction site here.
5 Star Trees LTD. proudly supports, and is certified by, many professional associations and groups. Read about a few of these below.
We believe it is important to support the plant growers industry as a whole, and to follow the best practices agreed upon between us. This allows us to learn & implement the most up to date, environmentally friendly, growing techniques, and bring you the latest, highest quality plant material.
We were one of the first Clean Plants Certified nurseries, and are proud of the effort we continue to put into this program
Our Health and Safety Management System has been evaluated by a certified auditor and meets or exceeds the Alberta OHS standards.
We are proud longtime LANTA members, and previously had staff on the board.
The WNGG members have performed trials on approx. 150 new cultivars, that have shown anecdotal evidence for worthiness in our climate.
ACSA is part of the Alberta Labour program Partnerships in Injury Reduction (PIR), which awards COR certificates.
CNLA is the parent association to all the provincial Nursery Landscape Associations.
The AGGA is an association of growers, educators and trades people who promote and strengthen the industry in Alberta.
The COPF collects royalties on, and provides access to, trademarked cultivars created by breeders.
Alberta One Call is a not-for-profit corporation providing free underground utility locates to anyone.
We are happy to offer discount pricing for your large projects. Email your plant list to info@5startrees.com, and we will send you a quote.
Please be sure to include any pertinent details along with your plant list, such as requested plant sizes, site address, is installation or delivery required, when you need the quote by, etc...
We are open Monday to Friday, all year round, with our seasonal hours listed below. To accommodate your work schedule, we take appointments for Saturday morning in the spring and summer.
Appointments are required to tour the farm and pick your favorite plants - Please contact us a few days in advance to setup an appointment during any of the hours listed below.
Invoices due upon delivery or pick-up. CREDIT ONLY on ESTABLISHED TRADE - Net 30 days from date of shipment or pick-up. OVERDUE accounts will be charged 4% on the unpaid balance per month. No further credit will be extended to accounts in arrears. BUYER agrees to pay attorney fees & other costs incurred for collection. New customers may pay with CASH, VISA, M/C, DEBIT or CERTIFIED CHEQUE made payable to 5-Star Trees, prior to pick-up or delivery. Credit card payments have a 4% fee on the invoice total. All other payment methods do not have a fee at this time. Subject to change.
New customers must pay by cash, credit card, debit card, or cheque.
All prices are F.O.B. at our Aldersyde farm. Prices subject to change without notice. G.S.T. is 5% extra.
In order to attain the 20+ “multi pricing” quantity discount, a minimum 20 plants of same size and variety, must be shipped or picked up on the same date.
We offer quality stock delivered in good condition. Due to factors beyond our control after delivery, no oral or implied warranty, other than title, applies to any stock.
Claims for any cause must be made in writing within 10 days after the arrival of stock & cannot exceed the original purchase price. We will not consider any claims after goods have been accepted. Claims made while in transit must be filed directly to the carrier.
Please give any shipping directions, including delivery address, that you require at time of order; otherwise we ship to the best of our judgment without assuming responsibility. All shipments travel at the risk and expense of the purchaser. We require a minimum of one day notice for pick-ups and two days' notice for deliveries on our trucks & trailers.
All returns and cancelled orders will be charged a 15% restocking fee. This fee is based on the total, pre-tax, invoice amount.
