"Holly," newly transplanted holly tree.
Location: "Sun Spot," Camino Real 3 S.W. 11th Av., residence of Jim & Dianne Brun.
“I’ve started calling her ‘Holly.'"
(Dianne Brun, rescuer of the 20’ holly tree from Harrison Memorial Library Garden, Library’s holly hoisted to new home, Mary Brownfield, The Carmel Pine Cone, December 8, 2006)
Over the course of Tuesday, 5 December 2006 and Wednesday, 6 December 2006, Jim and Dianne Brun’s gardener Robert Luster, David Teas of Environmental Design, driver James Vargas and crane operator Buddy Crafton successfully prepared the cite at Camino Real 3 S.W. 11th Av., excavated and secured the holly tree’s root ball in a wooden box, transported and transplanted “Holly,” the unwanted holly tree from the Harrison Memorial Library Garden to “Sun Spot,” the residence of Jim and Dianne Brun.
Citing the holly as non-native and not “significant,” City Forester Mike Branson stated that “the tree was going to be cut down and thrown away…it would be going in a dumpster or chipper, or something.” Believing “it would be such a shame to lose that tree – it’s perfectly healthy and thriving,” Dianne Brun arranged for David Teas of Environmental Design, a company known for moving and successfully transplanting large trees, including several large trees in the Presidio, to move “Holly” from Harrison Memorial Library Garden to her front yard on Camino Real.
Cheers to Jim and Dianne Brun! And welcome to your home, “Holly!” May you grow and prosper!
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