An award-winning, decades-old family nursery that historically offered cut-your-own Christmas trees, but the business has shifted toward general nursery and landscaping work over the years, so the tree offering here is a small side operation and it's worth calling ahead to confirm it's still active this season.
Maphis Tree Farm & Nursery in Chipley has real history behind it: established in 1999, a past winner of the Washington County Agricultural Innovator Award and Farm Family of the Year, and still listed by the region’s tree-farm directory as offering a full cut-your-own Christmas tree lineup. The honest complication is that current business descriptions for “Maphis Tree Farm & Nursery” describe a company that has grown well beyond its original part-time choose-and-cut roots into primarily a general nursery and landscaping business.
If the historical cut-your-own offering is still running this season, it covers Arizona Cypress, Carolina Sapphire, Eastern Red Cedar, Leyland Cypress, and Virginia Pine — five species that cover a genuine range of texture and color, from the silvery softness of Carolina Sapphire to the denser, more traditionally aromatic Eastern Red Cedar. The directory also describes tree shaking (to knock loose needles out before you get the tree home) and netting/baling as included services, along with a saw provided rather than bring-your-own.
Most farms in this batch carry some uncertainty about hours or pricing. This one is different: the uncertainty is about whether the core product — cut-your-own Christmas trees — is still part of the business at all. A company that has grown from a part-time tree operation into a full landscaping and nursery business over roughly two and a half decades may well have scaled back or discontinued a seasonal sideline that no longer fits its main focus, even while an older directory listing keeps describing the original offering. That’s a meaningfully different kind of gap than “we don’t know this year’s hours” — it’s “we don’t know if there’s a tree-cutting field to visit at all this year.”
There’s also an unresolved address discrepancy layered on top: the original tree-farm listing gives 814 Rattlebox Road, while current nursery business listings give 1534 Orange Hill Rd. These could be two separate properties (an original tree field versus a current storefront) or a straightforward relocation — this research couldn’t determine which, and used the more recently-dated address for this listing’s location.
Call 850-638-8243 before treating a visit to Maphis as a plan rather than a possibility, and ask two specific questions: whether cut-your-own Christmas trees are being sold this season, and which address to go to. If the answer is yes, you’re likely looking at a well-run, experienced operation — the award history and multi-decade tenure suggest real competence, just not necessarily competence specifically aimed at Christmas tree sales anymore. If the tree side has quietly wound down, the nursery itself may still be worth a visit for other reasons, but that’s a different trip than the one this directory entry is built around.
No pricing information for the tree side was found in any source, which is consistent with the broader uncertainty here — there’s simply not enough current information to build a confident cost expectation, so budget flexibly and ask directly if you do make the call and get a “yes.”
The record projects a 2026 Christmas season of Nov 27 through Dec 24, based on a directory-listed recurring pattern (Mon-Sat 8am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm during that window). That's a reasonable planning assumption, but given the uncertainty about whether cut-your-own trees are still actively offered every year, confirm by phone before treating any date as solid.
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Skip Maphis for Christmas trees specifically unless you've called 850-638-8243 to confirm cut-your-own trees are still offered this season, since the tree offering here is a small side operation within a business that has grown primarily into general nursery and landscaping work — the tree-farm directory still lists it, but business descriptions suggest a shift away from that as the main focus.
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Uncertain. The tree-farm directory still lists it with a full species lineup, tree shaking, and netting/baling services, but business descriptions indicate the company has grown from a part-time choose-and-cut operation (started before 1999) into primarily a general nursery and landscaping business over the years. We could not independently confirm this farm's current-season tree status beyond the directory listing — call 850-638-8243 first.
Arizona Cypress, Carolina Sapphire, Eastern Red Cedar, Leyland Cypress, and Virginia Pine, per the directory listing — all species suited to the Panhandle climate rather than true firs.
Possibly not. Sources give two different addresses — 814 Rattlebox Road for the original tree-farm listing, and 1534 Orange Hill Rd for current nursery business listings. These may be two different sites or a relocation; this wasn't resolved, and the more recently-dated address (1534 Orange Hill Rd) is used here.
The directory listing describes tree shaking and netting/baling services as part of the historical cut-your-own offering, along with a saw provided — but this predates the uncertainty about whether trees are still sold at all, so confirm current availability before assuming these services are still offered.
November 27 – December 24, 2026. Christmas season hours per the farm's directory listing: Mon-Sat 8am-5pm, Sun 1pm-5pm, day after Thanksgiving through Dec 24. General nursery hours (year-round) are Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, closed Sunday.. Hours: Mon-Sat 8am-5pm; Sun 1pm-5pm (Christmas season).
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own, and a saw is provided.
1534 Orange Hill Rd, Chipley, FL 32428, in Washington County. It is one of 5 farms we track in Panhandle FL.
We track 5 farms in Panhandle FL, 5 of which let you cut your own tree. The farm has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
Its season runs about 28 days against a regional average of 28, so it is broadly in line with the rest of the region.
What sets it apart locally: it has free netting/baling, which most Panhandle FL farms on our list do not.
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Checked September 2026.