Ilan Nursery – Trees with a Future

Ilan Nurseries Ltd. develops, cultivates, and markets mature ornamental trees in a variety of shapes and designs throughout Israel. Mr. Ilan Eshel, who holds a BSc in Agronomy with over 40 years of experience, with his son Mr. Itai Eshel, a third-generation nurseryman, have jointly turned the nursery in recent years into a leading business in the development, cultivation, and design of ornamental trees in Israel.

The nursery spans over 75 Ha of trees, most are field-grown and some in container-grown. Ilan Nursery, grows a wide variety of over 250 different species and varieties of trees, along with over 100 types and varieties of grafted trees or vegetative propagation products.

Our extensive range includes trees suitable for any purpose and use: deciduous trees, semi-deciduous trees, and evergreens; avenue trees and shade trees for gardens, yards, and lawns; trees adapted to hot, dry climates and those suitable for colder regions; flowering trees and fruitless trees; trees native to Israel, its groves and forests. Among our clients are nurseries, gardeners, landscaping contractors, landscape architects, municipalities, authorities, councils, institutions, factories, event venues, and private customers.

We constantly involved with R&D work on acclimatization, development, and propagation of new and outstanding species and varieties of trees through grafting or vegetative propagation. We aspire to change the face of the industry and how ornamental trees are considered in general, by raising awareness of their importance and contribution to the environment and climate.

We continuously host groups of gardeners, students, engineers, arborists, planners, and supervisors at our nursery for training and workshops both on-site and off-site, covering topics such as cultivation, design, pruning, and care of ornamental trees, even after their supply to the customer and planting in the designated area. We are proud to lead new standards in landscape architecture in Israel, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. We see great importance in sharing the knowledge we have accumulated in tree cultivation to raise awareness and ensure that the trees we provide will have a future in their new homes.

Our trees are uniform and of high quality, with high adaptability, meeting strict standards and the highest quality criteria set by authorities and municipalities across the country. They are approved by architects, planners, and landscaping supervisors. Our trees are uprooted from the ground and undergo a structured acclimatization and preparation process in the nursery before being supplied to the customer, ensuring optimal establishment at the planting site.

The nursery is located in a village (moshav) Neve Mivtah, situated in the coastal plain between Gedera and Ashdod, in the center of Israel.