DESIGN INSPIRATION – A MOST EXTRAORDINARY TREE

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My daughter Liv and I love to just hop in the car and go exploring along the coast. Far off in the distance we passed this amazingly beautiful tree and I just had to take a few snapshots. Isn’t the shape stunning!?! We took lots of photos wherever we stopped and will try to find the time to post later this week.

Edited update: After Googling around, this tree in Duxbury is well-known as the ‘Perfect Tree’ and also the ‘Gumdrop Tree.’ The Perfect Tree has been pruned to its perfect shape and may be an American Linden or possibly a Copper Beach. I’m looking for more information and will contact the Duxbury Historical Society 🙂

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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."

8 thoughts on “DESIGN INSPIRATION – A MOST EXTRAORDINARY TREE”

  3. Beautiful! It’s always a joy to see a mature tree that has been given enough room to reach its full potential growth. I think back to a copper beech that was/is along one of those ways in Hamilton. Stunning. You might be able to find a matching image on the Arbor Day Foundation website. I’m thinking pin oak?

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    1. One of it’s nicknames is the ‘Perfect Tree’ and it’s very much like the trees we were taught to draw in our landscape architecture drawing classes 🙂

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