Leaf it to you to make things Sweetie. The sugar maple knows the assignment. Hardy from zone 3 to 8, content in full sun or part shade, low-key on water and maintenance, and patient enough to live for centuries — Acer saccharum is the tree that just keeps showing up, blooming in April with quiet greenish flowers most people never even notice. It's the kind of beauty that doesn't ask for attention, and the kind of friend who never stopped paying attention to you. Gary L Hightshoe spent 47 years teaching students to recognize this kind of generosity in the natural world. Pull on this T-Shirt for the people who quietly make everything sweeter just by being there.
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.
Leaf it to you to make things Sweetie. The sugar maple knows the assignment. Hardy from zone 3 to 8, content in full sun or part shade, low-key on water and maintenance, and patient enough to live for centuries — Acer saccharum is the tree that just keeps showing up, blooming in April with quiet greenish flowers most people never even notice. It's the kind of beauty that doesn't ask for attention, and the kind of friend who never stopped paying attention to you. Gary L Hightshoe spent 47 years teaching students to recognize this kind of generosity in the natural world. Pull on this T-Shirt for the people who quietly make everything sweeter just by being there.
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.
