The title of your story reminds me of a non fiction book
The Secret Life of Trees
that deals with interspecies communication, nutrient exchange thorough the root systems and biowarfare...
Someone could do something amazing with it
voicing the thoughts and arguments of plants.
.... Maybe on earth
or another world where we were planting a colony
...or what if aliens came and wanted to deal with our rainforests instead of humans?
The basic conflicts are: man against nature, man against man, and man against himself. So... What about nature against man, nature against nature, and nature against itself?
What sort of story might you write after reading about the secret life of Trees?