Welcome to the Love Grove. “Love Grove” was the name given to the initial planting of three magnolia trees at Willowbranch Park on Valentine’s Day 2019 in coordination with Greenscape of Jacksonville and the City of Jacksonville Parks Recreation and Community Services. The name Love Grove seemed appropriate, given the reason and date of the plantings to remember loved ones lost to AIDS-related illnesses. We hope visitors will appreciate its beauty and timeless quality of an “urban forest” dedicated to the memory of residents.

We honor the memories of those we lost by creating a sanctuary in beloved Willowbranch Park, located in historic Riverside. The AIDS Memorial Project of Northeast Florida will be planting one hundred trees in coordination with the city Parks Department and Greenscape of Jacksonville to add to the existing beauty of the park. For the donation of $200, a tree will stand strong in the memory of those gone too soon. Refer to the map featured on this page to see the location for our future memorial, a bridge uniting those lost and those who remember.