Commemorative Trees and Features in the Grounds of Government ...

Commemorative trees and features in the grounds of Government House

Location Tree Planted by Reason
A Monkey Puzzle
Araucaria Araucaria
HE General Sir Michael Wilkes KCB CBE To commemorate the Millennium Year 2000
B Horse Chestnut
HRH The Duchess of Kent
To commemorate the 40
Aesculus Hippocastanum 9 May 1985
th Anniversary of
Liberation
C Mulberry
Lady Pillar, Wife of Lieutenant-Governor To commemorate HM The Queen’s 60
Morus Spp
21 April 1986
th Birthday
D Red Maple
Lady Pillar, Wife of Lieutenant-Governor To commemorate The wedding of their Royal
Acer Platanoides
23 July 1986
Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York
E Alder
HM The Queen and HRH Prince Philip To mark their visit to Jersey
Alnus Cordata
27 June 1978
F Gleditisia Government House
To mark the visit of HM The Queen and HRH Prince
9 May 2005
Philip on the 60 th Anniversary of Liberation
G Mountain Ash / Rowan The Princess Royal and Captain Timothy To mark their visit to Jersey
Sorbus Aucupana
Lawrence RN
28 - 30 June 1997
H Beech
HE General Sir Michael Wilkes KCB CBE To commemorate The 100
Fagus Sylvatica Rohani 4 August 2000
th Birthday of HM Queen
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
I English Oak
HE Air Chief Marshal Sir John Cheshire KBE To mark their tenure at Government House 2001 -
Quercus Robur
CB and Lady Cheshire
2006
J Scarlet Oak
HRH The Prince of Wales
To commemorate 800 years of Jersey’s allegiance
Quercus Coccinea
22 June 2004
to the Crown
K Weeping Beech HE General Sir Michael Wilkes KCB CBE and To commemorate the 60
the Bailiff of Jersey Sir Philip Bailhache joint
Patrons of the Jersey Association of the Men
of the Trees
16 June 1997
th Anniversary of the
founding in Jersey of a branch of the Men of the
Trees
L Weeping Cherry HRH The Duke of York To commemorate his visit to Jersey 15 – 16 May
1998
M Magnolia Soulangiana HE the Lieutenant-Governor and Lady To commemorate the Centenary of the Girls
Sutton
Brigade 1993
N Walnut
HE Vice Admiral Sir Michael Villiers
Juglans Rupestris
1 October 1968
O Red Maple HRH The Duchess of York To commemorate the visit to Jersey of their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York
2 – 4 May 1987
P Golden Oak
Government House
Donated by Mrs V Lort-Phillips
Quercus Rubra Aurea 1972
Q Silver Birch
HE General Sir Michael Wilkes KCB CBE and To commemorate their visit to Rouge Bouillon
Betula Pendula
Lady Wilkes
School 11 March 1997

R Magnolia Grandiflora Mrs Mollie Tessier-Yandell In memory of her husband Captain John Tessier-
Yandell OBE, Assistant Secretary to the Lieutenant-
Governor March 1975 – December 1978
S Beech
HE General Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick GCB To commemorate the Silver Jubilee of HM Queen
Fagus Sylvatica
DSO MBE MC
Elizabeth the Second 1977
T Beech
HE Admiral Sir William Pillar To commemorate HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s 65
Fagus Sylvatica
Birthday on 10 June 1986
U English Oak
Quercus Robur
The Men of the Trees To commemorate the 80 Anniversary of the
Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
1980
V Royal Windsor Oak HE Lieutenant General A P Ridgway CB CBE
17 February 2010
In celebration of the declaration signed in Jersey
on 17 February 1649 proclaiming Charles the
Second our King; and of the 350 th Anniversary of
the restoration of the Monarchy
W 4 Cannons The cannons were made in the early 19th Century.
They are naval 64 pounder muzzle loaders
converted from 8 inch smooth bore to rifled
X Granite Stone Unveiled by Their Royal Highnesses The
Earl and Countess of Wessex
2 October 2002
Y Granite Seat Commissioned by HE Lieutenant General A
P Ridgway CB CBE
Z Lamp Post Commissioned by Jersey Gas Company
Limited
barrels.
To commemorate the Golden Jubilee of HM Queen
Elizabeth the Second
To commemorate the Diamond Wedding
Anniversary of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke
of Edinburgh and the 90 th Anniversary of the Battle
of Cambrai 20 th November 2007
Presented to HE General Sir Peter Whitely GCB
OBE to commemorate the Jersey Gas Company
Limited 150 th Anniversary 1981