If you are interested in the healing properties of trees and flowers, this is a great place to start. Here I will suggest sample synergies that you can make yourself for a variety of purposes - whether they are emotional or physical imbalances.

We will begin with the various kinds of trees (their Gaelic names listed as well) and their healing properties:

• Birch (Beith) - The Birch is one that formerly covered the whole of the United Kingdom, it is a graceful and slender tree with a characteristic white bole. This tree is indicative of cleanliness and determination in overcoming adversity. This is good medicine to use when wanting to make fresh starts and ridding yourself of bad influences.
• Alder (Fearn) - The Alder is a water-loving tree and is used mainly for underwater foundations. Parts of Venice and other ancient cathedrals were built of Alder. The god linked with this tree is Bran the Blessed. This, too, is a tree used for spiritual protection and of prophecy as well.
• Willow (Saille) - The Willow in tree medicine stands for the female and lunar rhythms of life. She is water-seeking, and another water-loving tree like the Alder. The Willow offers protection against damp diseases and modern herbal practicioners extract the salicin from her bark to be used in such illnesses as rheumatic fever. This medicine works with your female aspects, a side that we, both male & female, possess. The female gift of fertility is also represented by the Willow.
• Ash (Nuin) - The World Tree. The Ash tree has deeply penetrating roots and changes the chemistry of the soil, making it difficult for for other vegetation to grow beneath it. It's twigs are thick and strong. Ash has many modern day "galactic" uses. Helping us to link the earthly and spiritual; yourself and the cosmos; lowest and highest. Good medicine for meditation and "multi-dimensional" travel.
• Hawthorn (Huathe) - A small tree that grows with a dense, many-branched body. This tree is best used for cleansing and chastity, bringing protection from the inner magical realms.
• Oak (Duir) - The Oak's place in the Celtic lunar calendar is seventh among the thirteen months. The Oak has always protected England through the use of his timbers for the building of ships, those that, for instance, defeated the Armada. Oaks have been used as boundary markers from one place to the next. Oak medicine is best when used for securing your pursuits, protecting you while you are attaining your goals. It is essential protection for those less able and weaker, who require security in order to strengthen their characters.
• Holly (Tinne) - A beautiful white-wooded tree with an almost invisible grain; looks very much like ivory. Holly is associated with the death and rebirth symbolism in both Pagan and Christian lore. In Arthurian legend, Gawain (representing the Oak King of summer) fought the Green Knight, who was armed with a Holly club to represent winter. Holly medicine may be used with difficulties in sleep or rest, and to ease the passage of death.
• Hazel (Coll) - The Hazel embodies many talents: poetry, divination, and the powers of meditation. In Celtic tradition, the Salmon of Knowledge is said to eat the nuts dropped into its sacred pool from the Hazel tree growing beside it. Each nut eaten by the salmon becomes a spot on its skin. In Europe and North America, Hazel wood is used to gain knowledge, wisdom and poetic inspiration.
• Apple (Quert) - A dense, fine-grained, rosy-coloured wood with a slightly sweet smell. The Apple is associated with choice. The choice you may have to make between similar and equally attractive things. This is good medicine to use when you are having difficulty in making decisions in your life...whether they are work or relationship oriented.
• Vine (Muin) - This is used in the development of prophetic powers - best when used while trying to reach a deeper state of consciousness and when doing healing work on others.
• Ivy (Gort) - Represents the spiral of the self and the search for self. The maze of the labyrinth is also linked to the Ivy, since it, too, symbolizes the wandering of the soul, circling inward and outward, seeking nourishment from within and without, leading you to "enlightenment". Also a wonderful aid if helping others on a spiritual journey.
• Reed (Ngetal) - Helps create spiritual weapons - gives you direction. Best when used before beginning healing work or "soul retrievals".
• Blackthorn (Straif) - The Blackthorn is a very wintery tree. The fruits, known as sloes, only ripen after the first frosts. The Gaelic word "straif" has links with the English word "strife". The wood of the Blackthorn is traditionally used with the Irish shillelagh. It represents the strong action of fate or the outside influences in your life. Using Blackthorn during times that seem insurmountable will help to conquer the problems. Blackthorn should only be used by those who are on a much more advanced path.
• Elder (Ruis) - This tree is linked to the eternal turnings of life and death, birth and rebirth. It represents the end in the beginning and the beginning in the end; life in death and death in life. It also is significant of creativity and renewal...new beginnings.
• Silver Fir (Ailim) - This is used in bringing the knowledge of both your present and past lives into the "now". The colour silver links you to your "silver thread", symbolizing your awareness of progress on your spiritual journey. Silver Fir is best when searching for the gift of "insight".
• Heather (Ur) - Used for going within (solitary healing work). Heather, along with Misletoe, create a powerful healing medicine in both spiritual and physical aspects. It is even being used today in some forms of alternative medicines as a treatment for cancer.
• White Poplar (Eadha) - The tree with most concerns over earthly and material aspects of life. It is also concerned with finding the spiritual determination to face the hardships that we endure through the course of our lifetime. The Poplar tree has the ability to resist and to shield, an ability with languages and speech, and a close relationship with the winds.
• Yew (Ioho) - The Yew tree can most often be found in the ancient cemeteries. In Breton Legend, the tree is said to grow a root into the open mouth of each corpse buried in the graveyard. This root is the symbol of rebirth. This medicine is good when used in working with past life issues and regression.
• Grove (Koad) - The tree of All Knowledge. The Grove represents a sacred place where all is linked and becomes clear in unity. Helps you to look beneath the surface of things...whether they are situations or people. This medicine works with your hidden knowledge, helping you to manifest it at the most appropriate time.
• Spindle (Oir) - Completion of tasks. The ability to complete something to the end, no matter how difficult. Excellent medicine when you are having difficulty progressing in a certain area of your life.
• Honeysuckle (Uilleand) - Helps you to distinguish what is real from what is false, and what is of real value on your journey. The Honeysuckle will help you to tread safely - remaining true to your ideals and principles.
• Beech (Phagos) - Beech wood is close grained and easy to work with - a very smooth and even surface. Beech medicine can tell you much about yesterday and how it is relevant today. Handling old objects or visiting a place connected with your past will bring understanding of people and incidents, reviving the memories within you that you need.

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