Swindon has been chosen to receive one of the trees that helped make up the ‘tree of trees’ display to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee outside of Buckingham Palace earlier this year.
The spectacular 21-metre ‘Tree of Trees’ sculpture featured 350 native British trees planted as part of the The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) initiative, was designed by British architect Thomas Heatherwick.
The QGC set out to plant over a million trees to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The idea of planting trees during the Jubilee year was to mark the 1,500 trees that The Queen has planted — or at least, moved a prepared handful of soil on a new spade — during her reign.
Following Her Majesty’s death aged 96 last month, the trees are now being distributed to locations across the UK in honour of the late monarch. Huge celebrations were held to mark The Queen having reigned for 70 years in June.
Swindon’s was chosen as a destination for one of the trees thanks to the Steam – Museum of the Great Western Railway volunteers, who helped administer the Covid-19 vaccine programme.
A spokesperson for Swindon Borough Council said: “We’re really excited to have been chosen as one of 300 organisations to receive a special tree from the Queen’s Green Canopy Tree of Trees.
“The tree will be gifted in a pot embossed with Her Late Majesty’s cypher.”
The council says the planting ceremonies will take place this autumn.
