Creating a Peace Garden!

A Cherry Tree was the Central
​Peace Tree in the Garden We Visited

This spring on my daughter’s birthday, she took me to a Peace Garden she had discovered a couple of weeks earlier. It was enchanting and tranquil. I’ve thought of it often since our visit. I’ve been working in my own back yard, incorporating some of the plants and ideas I found most appealing and I’ve decided to make my own version of a peace garden!

You might want to think about doing the same! My space is small, and it will need a lot of work, but I can be flexible with the requirements and create a lovely area! 

Recommendations for a Peace Garden

Recommendations include:

• A Peace Rock or Peace Logo - This can be a word or phrase carved into or painted on a rock or wood. It can be the word peace in several different languages, a symbol or a quote about peace. Use your imagination!
• Two Benches or Logs - Include places to sit, read, journal, sketch, or meditate. I’ll probably only have one. 
• A Path of Peace - Include a path around your garden, a labyrinth, circular or a winding path. 
• A Peace Tree - In the movie The Peace Tree, the White Pine was the symbol of the Iroquois Constitutions, known as “the great law of peace.” In Japan, the ginkgo is considered a peace tree. Many other trees are associated with peace, kindness, happiness, friendship and protection. I have a spruce tree and a birch tree in the garden I’m creating!

A Peace Rock or Peace Logo

A Path of Peace

Two Benches or Logs

A Peace Tree

Response to Creating a Peace Garden Newsletter!

Clarence Watson, one of my favorite newsletter readers, created a peace garden that is worthy of being a public park - but I’m sworn to secrecy and won’t share his address. If I did, I have a feeling he would be over run with visitors!

This beautiful sacred space has all the components:
​the Peace Rock, and two benches for meditation, journaling, reflection, reading or conversation.
​He has a path of peace and several gorgeous peace trees!