When gardener Cassim Chimaliro (29) set out to do a simple pruning job this week, he never imagined he would uncover a symbol of love.
As his saw sliced cleanly through a tree branch, he stopped in surprise — staring at a near-perfect heart shape inside the wood.
“I was shocked to find this beautiful heart shape,” said Chimaliro, who has been tending gardens for just a year.
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It shows that nature is so beautiful, and we must be careful when dealing with plants.
The heart-shaped find brought smiles all round.
“When I showed my employer, she even apologised to the tree after I cut it,” he laughed.
Set in a lush Clarendon garden surrounded by whispering bamboo and watched over by a crowned eagle’s nest, the tree now has a new claim to fame — a heart that quite literally beats in its trunk.
Chimaliro said he plans to preserve his accidental discovery.
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“I want to varnish it and put a light near it so that when people walk past at night, they can see the heart shining,” he said.
Because sometimes, it seems, love really does grow on trees.
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