Pocono Platypus
hills and valleys
The mounds represent Calvary or Golgotha -- possibly, my intuitive response.
I can think of no situation -- I have planted hundreds of trees -- where a tree would be deliberately planted on a mound. A mound would dry out too easily. It may be good to heap up some soil around a young tree after it has been in the ground a while. But trees grow quite naturally on mounds and hilltops, where they are more visible. Trees also grow in valleys and depressions, of course, but that was not chosen for Le Perdu -- so there must be a symbolic reason why the hilltop location was used
The mounds represent Calvary or Golgotha -- possibly, my intuitive response.
I can think of no situation -- I have planted hundreds of trees -- where a tree would be deliberately planted on a mound. A mound would dry out too easily. It may be good to heap up some soil around a young tree after it has been in the ground a while. But trees grow quite naturally on mounds and hilltops, where they are more visible. Trees also grow in valleys and depressions, of course, but that was not chosen for Le Perdu -- so there must be a symbolic reason why the hilltop location was used