A Husband’s Hidden Forest of Love: 6,000 Trees Planted in Memory of His Wife Reveals a Heart-Shaped Secret
When Janet Howes passed away at just 50 years old in 1995, her husband Howard was left heartbroken. In the quiet countryside near Wickwar, Gloucestershire, he decided to honor her in a way that would outlast stone or marble. On a six-acre field beside his farmhouse, Howard planted thousands of oak trees—carefully leaving a meadow…