Our story

A tree that will live in your garden for a hundred years spends its first ones in ours. Every three to five years we lift it from the soil and sculpt its roots — a careful pruning which, repeated throughout the tree’s life, builds a dense, self-sufficient rootball below ground. When the tree finally travels, it takes with it everything it needs to establish again.

Our founder, Carlos Azevedo, learnt this method from German and Dutch nurserymen and brought it to thirty-three hectares of open ground in Amarante, in the winter of 2009. The first customers were those same northern European nurserymen, people who demanded that every specimen survive transplanting with clockwork precision. It was with them that our quality standard took shape, before we even had a name.

Then the requests began to come from closer to home. Private customers building their estate, developers with projects that could not wait, landscapes across Portugal and Spain that called for mature trees. After years of watching its work cross borders, the family could finally see its trees taking root in its own soil. To make sure every specimen arrived just as it left the field, we set up a landscape architecture studio and trained an installation team — an unbroken chain from field to lorry to garden. Today Diaplant operates in three integrated divisions: production, design, installation.

Carlos is still in the field, where he has always been. His son, Cláudio, trained in plant genetics, leads the commercial side and the studio. The rest of the family is here too — this is a family business in the fullest sense, built around the same trees and the same table. We grew these trees so that you would not have to wait for them — and we install them with the same hands that planted, pruned and shaped them.

From our field to your garden. Book your visit to Amarante.