{"id":36634,"date":"2025-09-11T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/?p=36634"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:59:29","slug":"6000-trees-planted-for-love-hidden-message-revealed-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/?p=36634","title":{"rendered":"6,000 Trees Planted for Love \u2014 Hidden Message Revealed Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Howard Howes lost his wife Janet in 1995, his life changed forever. She died at 50 from heart failure, leaving behind <\/p>\n

their Gloucestershire farm and decades of memories. Searching for a lasting tribute, Howard turned to the land they had shared.<\/p>\n

On a six-acre field beside his farmhouse, he planted thousands of oak saplings but left a clearing shaped like a heart. <\/p>\n

Its tip pointed directly toward Wotton Hill, Janet\u2019s childhood home. \u201cIt was a flash of inspiration,\u201d<\/p>\n

he recalled. Later, he placed a bench overlooking the hill, where he often sat to remember her.<\/p>\n

For over ten years, the meadow was his private sanctuary, especially in spring when daffodils bloomed <\/p>\n

inside the heart. \u201cIt\u2019s a lovely and lasting tribute,\u201d Howard said. \u201cSomething that will be here long after I am gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The secret remained hidden until 2012, when hot-air balloonist Andy Collett spotted the shape from above.<\/p>\n

Photographs of the \u201cheart meadow\u201d quickly spread worldwide, touching countless people.<\/p>\n

Howard, who married Janet in 1962, said he still sometimes flies over it himself: \u201cFrom the air, it\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

What began as grief grew into a living monument \u2014 proof that love can be planted and remembered forever.<\/p>\n

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When Howard Howes lost his wife Janet in 1995, his life changed forever. She died at 50 from heart failure, leaving behind their Gloucestershire farm and decades of memories. Searching for a lasting tribute, Howard turned to the land they had shared. On a six-acre field beside his farmhouse, he planted thousands of oak saplings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36637,"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36634\/revisions\/36637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topnewsin34.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}