SOLVED. YA- book series based around a world where people have powers correlating with nature (vegetation, rocks, fire, water air) [s]

[Jordan]

YA- book series based around a world where people have powers correlating with nature (vegetation, rocks, fire, water air) and the main character has the power to communicate and manipulate vegetation. He finds out his "master" (i think he was a slave or type of servant?) has been burying dead people under a tree as the tree tells him this and it is growing too vigorously. He is then basically a fugitive and on the run from there.

[Dee]

there is the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine - its probably more adult-ish though; or [book:Storm|28580871 (Elementals series)

[Jordan]

Dee wrote: "there is the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine - its probably more adult-ish though; or [book:Storm|28580871 (Elementals series)"

Just looked into the weather warden series and that isnt it but interesting! let me look up the other! thank you for your response.

[Jordan]

sadly not either of those :(

[Ann]

Probably not because a lot of the details don't match, but one of the Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce has the characters - one of whom has plant magic - in a foreign land where one of the villain's henchmen has been killing people and burying them under a tree and he discovers this in part through his connection with the plants. The plant character's name is Briar. There's another character, Evvy, who has stone magic. A lot of the other details don't match - magic isn't tied specifically to the elements, for example - but memory does weird things, so it's worth being mentioned. I can't remember which book that scene was in, but they were definitely traveling, so not one of the first four in the series, probably either Street Magic or Battle Magic

[Jordan]

Ann wrote: "Probably not because a lot of the details don't match, but one of the Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce has the characters - one of whom has plant magic - in a foreign land where one of the vi..."

Alright this sounds exactly like what i'm looking for! you're right, a decade did a few things to my memory on that one haha but you still managed to figure it out. thank you so much!