To mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years in public service, a tree-shaped sculpture has been planned to stand outside Buckingham Palace. The tree-shaped sculpture, called the Tree of Trees, will be at the center of attention in all the celebrations and festivities surrounding the momentous occasion.

Brooke Cagle/Unsplash. The Tree of Tree will have indigenous plants and trees from across the UK's nurseries and gardens.

According to Heatherwick Studio, the company that designed the sculpture, the 69-foot-tall Tree of Trees will be featuring 350 trees indigenous to Britain, attached to a steel frame. The sculpture is said to be a reflection of the Queen’s tree planting drive called The Queen’s Green Canopy. The initiative began in October 2021 and up until March of 2022, with more than a million trees being planted in this period.

Thomas Heatherwick, the founder of the Heatherwick Studio, said that the Tree of Trees is coming together from nurseries and workshops across the country, giving rise to a tremendous community drive that is changing the face of the nation's landscape.

Simon Wilkes/Unsplash. Thomas Heatherwick is at the helm of various famous designs, with ‘trees’ as a common theme.

Heatherwick has been at the helm of many famous designs such as the 2012 Olympics cauldron and London's latest Routemaster buses. He has also worked internationally on initiatives aimed at environmentalism and sustainability–in 2021, Heatherwick worked in Shanghai for the 1000 Trees, a mall named after its theme of having 1000 trees in planters at the top of the mall’s building, and along its thosand structural columns.

The theme of Trees and plantations is a common one in Heatherwick’s work. He also built Little Island, a park on the Manhattan riverside which features 100 different kinds of trees and plants that are unique to the city of New York.

For the Tree of Trees, 350 trees will be housed in aluminum pots embossed with the Queen’s cypher. After the Jubilee celebrations ended in October of 2022,  all 350 trees were to be distributed to various community organizations.

King’s CHurch International/Unsplash. The Jubilee celebrations will be held during the first June weekend across the UK.

These Jubilee celebrations will begin on June 2 and last till June 5 across the U.K. More than 1500 places in the country will be lit up to celebrate the weekend-long Jubilee celebrations, lighting up Great Britain like a Christmas tree to celebrate Her Majesty’s 70 years in the country’s service.