Sweetie, our love is tree-mendous. Some pairings are simply meant to grow tall together — and the sugar maple knows a thing or two about standing the test of time. Native to eastern North America, Acer saccharum reaches 40 to 80 feet (sometimes 100), spreads its dense, rounded crown 30 to 60 feet wide, and forms one of the main components of the eastern U.S. hardwood forest. It's the tree most responsible for giving New England its reputation for spectacular fall color. Gary L Hightshoe spent his career teaching the language of trees — and naming this one Sweetie was no accident. Pull on this T-Shirt for the love that grows slow, stands tall, and gets more beautiful every season.
Gary L Hightshoe is the "Tree Whisperer." The grandfather of the prairie. The godfather of Savanna Studio. As Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, Gary taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. His students, his colleagues, and his friends gave him those names because they captured what was true: nobody knew the trees, the prairie, the savanna, the Midwest's living landscape the way Gary did, and nobody loved them more.
Gary is the author and illustrator of North American Plantfile and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America — books that have shaped the field of landscape architecture for a generation. His most enduring contribution may be Savanna Studio, the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Banff, and the Badlands — teaching them that you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk.
Through his art, Gary brings the natural world he has spent a lifetime studying into spaces where people can carry a piece of it with them every day. Every tree he draws, every barn he sketches, every silo he renders is a small act of preservation — a record of the Midwest as it was, as it is, and as it deserves to be remembered.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L Hightshoe
About this T-Shirt:
A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
Sweetie, our love is tree-mendous. Some pairings are simply meant to grow tall together — and the sugar maple knows a thing or two about standing the test of time. Native to eastern North America, Acer saccharum reaches 40 to 80 feet (sometimes 100), spreads its dense, rounded crown 30 to 60 feet wide, and forms one of the main components of the eastern U.S. hardwood forest. It's the tree most responsible for giving New England its reputation for spectacular fall color. Gary L Hightshoe spent his career teaching the language of trees — and naming this one Sweetie was no accident. Pull on this T-Shirt for the love that grows slow, stands tall, and gets more beautiful every season.
Gary L Hightshoe is the "Tree Whisperer." The grandfather of the prairie. The godfather of Savanna Studio. As Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, Gary taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. His students, his colleagues, and his friends gave him those names because they captured what was true: nobody knew the trees, the prairie, the savanna, the Midwest's living landscape the way Gary did, and nobody loved them more.
Gary is the author and illustrator of North American Plantfile and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America — books that have shaped the field of landscape architecture for a generation. His most enduring contribution may be Savanna Studio, the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Banff, and the Badlands — teaching them that you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk.
Through his art, Gary brings the natural world he has spent a lifetime studying into spaces where people can carry a piece of it with them every day. Every tree he draws, every barn he sketches, every silo he renders is a small act of preservation — a record of the Midwest as it was, as it is, and as it deserves to be remembered.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L Hightshoe
About this T-Shirt:
A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
