How to Plant a Tree: A Simple Celebration of Trees & Tree-Planting Ceremonies - Hardcover

"This is a perfect little book for summer. Butler begins with a simple history of trees and human interaction with them. He then goes on to give instructions for growing trees from seed and seedlings, protecting trees after planting, keeping trees healthy, and even for growing bonsai trees. He includes fact-filled, two-page descriptions of several dozen tree species. Interspersed throughout are suggested tree ceremony formats for every event from new babies to memorials. Butler's love of trees is inspiring. The knowledge about trees he is passing on in this book makes it a resource which can be used ongoing to help heal our planet and ourselves."
--Anna Jedrziewski, InannaWorks.com

Explores the symbolism and traditional uses of trees and offers suggestions for various commemorative tree-planting acts including a new-baby ceremony, a marriage ceremony, a memorial for a loved one and a new-home ceremony, in a book that also has practical information on how to plant and care for a tree.