This tree was planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953.
WC2, Victoria Embankment Gardens
There is a third plaque (far right) but it's about some gardening prize which we didn't find sufficiently interesting. During the early part of 2008 all three plaques were renovated and re-laid on identical plinths.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
Queen Elizabeth II. A London Inheritance's post 2nd June 1953 – Coronation D...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Coronation tree - Embankment Gardens
City of Westminster London Memorial Garden Under these trees people of all ...
After our first visit in 2015 it was only when we got the photo home that we saw there was another line of text, obscured by the grass. 2...
Golden-Barked Ash, Fraxinus excelsior Aurea. Planted in memory of Hugh & Margaret Casson, 2000.
Marvell wrote 'The Garden', the poem which is quoted here.
This strangely monikered garden was named for Dr William Heath Strange who, in 1882, founded the Hampstead General Hospital that went on ...
The RHS describes this tree: "Liquidambar are deciduous trees grown for their alternate, maple-like leaves which take on brilliant and lo...
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