Table of Contents

About the Authors - Foreword Participating Beings - Theabrox, the Great Timber - The tree in material terms - Human being and tree - Tree spirits, tenders and other elemental beings - Contacting tree beings - The Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) - The Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium) - The Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera) - The Black Elder (Sambucus nigra) - The Rowan Tree (Sorbus aucuparia) - The Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) - The Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) - The Field Maple (Acer campestre) - The Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) - The Black Alder (Alnus glutinosa) - The Grey Alder (Alnus incana) - The Common Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastum) - The Sweet or Edible Chestnut (Castanea sativa) - The Poplar (Populus) - The Aspen (Populus tremula) - The Grey Poplar (Populus canescens) - Crown, the tree tender - The London Plane (Platanus acerifolia) - The Large-leaved Lime or Linden (Tilia platphyllos) - The Caucasian Lime (Tilla x euchlora) - The Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) - The European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) - The Pendula or Weeping Beech (Fagus sylvatica forma pendula) - The Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica forma purpurea) - The Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) - The Elm (Ulmus) - The Black Locust or False Acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia) - The Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) - The Silver or Weeping Birch (Betula pendula) - The White Willow (Salix alba) - The English or Common Oak (Quercus robur) - The Red Oak (Quercus rubra) - The Pomegranate (Punica granatum) - The Soapberry (Sapindus mukorossi) - The Frankincense (Boswellia sacra) - The Palo Santo or Vera Wood (Bulnesia arborea) - The Olive (Olea europaea)

About the Author

VERENA STAE L VON HOLSTEIN was born in Rendsburg in 1959. She studied surveying and hydrography and worked as a computer programmer and in the hydrographic surveying department. She is a homemaker with two children, and lives at a watermill in Lu neburger Heide, a heathland region in Northern Germany. A student of the work of Rudolf Steiner, from childhood onwards she has been able to perceive the etheric and astral realms in human beings and the natural world. She has learnt over many years to train her metaphysical perceptions so that communication with nature spirits takes place almost as a matter of course. She receives answers spiritually in the form of patterns, ideas and sometimes also images, and translates them into human concepts. She is the author of several books, including Nature Spirits and What They Say.