Selecting a tree for celebration or remembrance can be as simple as a visit to a local garden center. Or you may want to donate to a nature or garden charity.
Selecting a tree for celebration of remembrance in your own landscape can be as simple as asking advice and buying a tree at a local garden center. On the other hand, you might like to donate money for a thought-provoking and enlightening living memorial that highlights your occasion.
Here are several sites that can help narrow down your choice of what tree to choose:
- The Arbor Day Foundation;
- The Royal Horticultural Society;
- The Arnold Arboretum;
- The American Horticultural Society River Farm;
- The Anglian Gardener Company in the UK.;
- National Register of Historic Trees.
Here are sites of charitable organizations that are set up to handle your specific requests and supervise the fundamentals of planting your living memorial:
- The Neot Kedumim Biblical Landscape maintains agricultural installations, archeological finds, herds of domestic and wild animals, and Biblical plant life. Here is a listing of over 200 plants, flowers, and trees mentioned in Biblical sources.
- Trees for the Holyland will plant a tree for you in the ancient land of the Bible, through a special arrangement with the government forest agency in the State of Israel. The link draws attention to this spiritual and religious homeland of three of the world's major religions, the land of Abraham, Jesus, and Muhammad.
- The Jewish National Fund specializes in development of Israeli land and infrastructure, especially planting trees. The Online Tree Planting Center suggests choosing from one of fifteen memorials.
- Trees for Life, founded in 1984, empowers people in developing countries by helping them plant fruit trees. Their motto is: "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
- The Brooklyn Botanic Garden accepts memorial gifts for ongoing maintenance of BBG, to one of their specialty gardens, or education or outreach programs, the library book purchasing fund, or to botanical research.
©Text and photograph by Georgene A. Bramlage, April 2006. Reproduction without permission prohibited.
