Cool Springs Nursery has many years of experience shipping wholesale Christmas trees internationally.   This is not an easy process.

First, it involves knowing how inland and ocean freight works and then having the contacts to navigate this process efficiently and economically.  Cool Springs has all this experience and knowledge.

Second,  we know how to transfer and even extend credit internationally.  This helps a lot when an international buyer has a market and wants to buy a lot of trees but does not have the cash to pay upfront for the trees.  We can solve this problem with our banking partners.

Third,  we know the ins and outs of putting trees in refeers and how to keep them fresh for weeks of international travel.  There are some tricks and secrets that can make the difference between getting the product there fresh.

Fourth,  we are very familiar with how to handle special situations involving import permits and special fidos which can make the difference between a successful delivery or not.

Finally, we ship exactly the same high quality product internationally that we do domestically.  Your customers will be thrilled with the quality of Cool Springs Nursery.

Bottom Line:  Call Cool Springs Nursery for all your international shipping needs.  We ship anywhere in the world from China, to South America, the Caribbean, Central America and to the Middle East.

First Load of trees to be shipped to Panama Ever.

About Us

Mark and Paul Smith are brothers who started growing Fraser Fir Christmas trees just out of college in 1980.   Mark was a chemist with Baxter Pharmaceutical International and Paul was a Presbyterian minister working full - time as an Associate Pastor in Hendersonville, N.C. He was there for almost eleven years. In 1991 he became tentmaker minister for 17 years, growing a congregation and growing trees at the same time.   Over the years, two acres of Fraser Fir in 1980 has grown to 600 acres in 2011.

Since 2008, Paul is the full- time President of Cool Springs Nursery but is still involved in ministry on a volunteer basis. Phil Hobart is the farm Field Manager and we have anywhere from ten to seventy employees working on the farm during the year.

Mark  is a director at Baxter International and is in charge of Global Logistics and distribution at the largest intravenous solutions manufacturing plant in the world. He has expertise in shipping that helps Cool Springs Nursery domestically and internationally. Mark is charge of shipping doing all of our logistics and shipping during November.

Cool Springs Nursery is known in the industry for its high quality trees. It is known by other Christmas tree growers for its cutting edge cultural practices and use of mechanization. We are a research cooperator with North Carolina State University and are currently working on several experiments on our farm which include the use of “deep phosphors trenching” to meet phosphorus requirements and also a project to use “clover” to supply the nitrogen requirements of Fraser Fir Christmas Trees.