From modest roots, Holly Hill Gnome Tree 'keeps on blossoming' For Morris, who can see the Gnome Tree from the front porch of her home on San Robar Drive, the celebration is the latest example of ...

But Vernors historian Lawrence L. Rouch, author of the “Vernor’s Story: From Gnomes to Now” (University of Michigan Press, $14.95), disagrees, saying the gnome never had an official moniker.