Coventry is world-renowned for its multicultural citizenship and spirit of international friendship. It has 26 twinned cities from 18 countries.

To celebrate these international links, the city gardeners have planted 18 triangular groups of trees in various parks around the city. They are called “Three Trees Peace Gardens”. They consist of a maple, a hazel and a holly tree.
They represent the famous three spires that survived in the city centre after the 1940 Blitz.

Why were these three trees chosen? The maple is a common symbol of strength and endurance. The hazel is traditionally associated with wisdom and inspiration. And the holly’s evergreen leaves made it a symbol for the resurrection of spring life after the death of winter.

Each Peace Garden is located in one of the 18 Wards that make up the city and represents one of the eighteen countries with whom Coventry shares at least one sister city.

The one within Lady Herbert’s Gardens is dedicated to Kingston, Jamaica. It is known as St Michael’s Peace Garden.

You can find the location of all the Peace Gardens on the Peace Trail website covpeacetrail.uk

For more information see this page.