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Grieving man honors late wife by planting 6000 oak trees – years later people see hidden shape
This is the best love story I've seen since 'The Notebook!'
Randy Aragon
03.06.20

Finding a soulmate in this lifetime is what everyone strives for, but not everyone gets the pleasure of meeting that one special person. When you are fortunate enough to experience this, you deeply treasure it. After this man’s soulmate/wife passes away, he decided to honor her by planting 6000 oak trees. Years later, the trees become fully grown and a symbol of his love appears in the shape he planted them.

This brought tears to my eyes, how did he make such a perfect shape with the trees?!

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After his wife passed away, he planted 6000 trees in her memory. Years later, a man in a hot air balloon discovered a hidden secret in the trees that he planted

Winston Howes met his wife Janet in 1962, it was love at first sight and they spent every moment from there on out together. The two love birds had the type of relationship everyone dreams about, rarely even bickering and constantly doting on each other.

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When Janet suddenly passed away in 1995 after 33-years of marriage, Winston was beside himself and knew he had to do something special to memorialize her but what could he do? He decided to create something using trees that would end up stealing hearts all around the world.

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A farmer by trade, Winston got an idea and started planting oak trees, 6000 of them

On their dream-home property in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, England, Winston began his project planting oak trees every week until there were 6000 oak trees planted on their property. It wasn’t until 17-years later when a man that happened to pass their fields in a hot air balloon and a secret was discovered within the trees.

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A man named Andy Collett just happened to be on a hot air balloon ride when he saw something beautiful buried in the oak trees. What had been Winston’s secret declaration of love for almost two decades was a now on display for the world to see.

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What Andy saw from the air, was a gigantic heart in the middle of the trees that took his breath away

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Andy has his own hot air balloon, but he had never flown over that exact spot and seen the heart before.

“You can just imagine the love story. I have my own balloon and am quite a regular flyer, but this was the most amazing sight I have ever seen from the sky,” Andy told Daily Mail.

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The tip of the heart points toward Janet’s childhood home of Wotton Hill. Winston also planted daffodils that bloom every spring in the center of the heart

Now in his 70’s, Winston walks through the oak trees, reminiscing about the woman he lost so many years ago.

“I thought it was a great idea, it was a flash of inspiration, and I planted several thousand oak trees. Once it was completed we put a seat in the field, overlooking the hill near where she used to live,” Winston told the Daily Mail.”

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This is such a touching story, the dedication it must have taken to continually plant trees with the precision to form a huge heart is mind-boggling. To see the inspiring story for yourself, watch the video below!

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