The garden around this weeping beech was designed by a poet who was also the mayor of Zwolle. Rhijnvis Feith owned the Boschwijk estate and, after 1783, laid out its landscape garden on the southeast side of the house in the English style, with winding paths and water. The beech came more than a century after him. The national monumental tree register gives it a planting band of 1900 to 1910, which makes it around 120 years old, an age read from that band rather than from any planting record. What stands there now is a weeping beech in the lawn, the kind of tree whose branches hang down towards the grass rather than reaching out. The register says little more: its history field for this tree is blank. The national monument listing for Boschwijk's historic garden confirms the design, the protection and the public park, but does not mention this beech by name. So the tree rests on the register's word alone, and we flag it as such. It is worth combining with two other register trees in the same park that are already on this map, the beech of the Boschwijk avenue and the red oak, which stands about 150 metres from here. Together they make a short loop through Feith's garden. Nobody has published a girth or height for it. If you visit, a measurement sent to us would fill the gap.
In the lawn, Park Boschwijk, Heinoseweg, Zwolle You can recognise it by its drooping branches, the habit of a weeping beech. It stands in the lawn of Park Boschwijk, about 150 metres from the park's red oak.
Free. Park Boschwijk's landscape garden is open to the public (already established for zwo_002 and zwo_004, published trees in the same park); the register records this tree as visitable (visitable: ja), owner_category gemeente.
About 3.2 km east of Zwolle station, roughly 40 minutes on foot.