2001 – 2009

Date: c.2001
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: early 2000s
Source: photograph by volunteer
Historians have been rude enough to dispute this claim, made on behalf of a number of plants in different bishops’ gardens, by saying that in fact myrtle, not hebe, was the plant in the bouquet, and that it was Queen Victoria’s daughter, not the queen herself, who carried myrtle in her wedding bouquet. However, we like the original story.

Date: 2001 or 2002
The ladies who made cakes and served teas deserve a special mention in the history of the PGPT, for they gave many hours of time and trouble to the numerous tasks involved in providing teas on the lawn on summer Sundays to an appreciative public. The result of their work was a considerable contribution annually to the funds available to the garden. Gretchen Mason, also Hon Sec at the time, was the first ‘Tsarina of the teas’ in 1999, Nancy Stewart (picture centre, in mob cap) was ‘Queen of the cakes’ and others since have carried on their very good work, giving up their summer Sundays to this cause.

Date: early 2000s
Source: photograph by volunteer
In the background can be seen the rustic bridge and glazed ‘shed’.

Date: c 2002
Source: photograph by volunteer
On special occasions, such as the Queen’s Jubilee, or for children’s groups, the guides have adopted Victorian style costume.
The rustic bridge is a favourite spot for taking a photograph of the view to the south (cf PGPT403), although here the guide is pointing north, probably to the monkey puzzle tree planted just north of the bridge.

Date: 2002
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 2003
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 2003
Source: photograph by volunteer Sarah Cocke

Date: 2001-2004
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Date: June 2004
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Date: June 2004
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 2004
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2004
Source: photograph by volunteer
In the background can be seen the restored summerhouse, and the pedestal decorated with pebble flints and Gunton Bros ‘fancy’ bricks (cf PGPT354/5).

Date: 2004
Source: photograph by volunteer
PGPT371 shows its position relative to the Plantation house.

Date: 2004
Source: Planting scheme drawn by Marj Wilson

Date: c 2004
Source: Britain in Bloom photographer

Date 2004
Source Photgraph by volunteer
The very attractive planting in the beds originally within the Palm House can be seen here. Marjorie Wilson, Head Gardener, who designed and organised the planting of these beds, is on the right, talking to Sheila Adam (archivist) and Bruce Adam (chairman).
The small glasshouse was erected in 2000 with a grant from the lottery fund for the practical purpose of housing chairs and tables for Sunday teas. The design was copied from old photographs of the glazed entrance to the boiler house as seen in PGPT002.

Date: 2004
Source: photograph by volunteer
Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.

Date: September 2004
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date 21st July 2005
Source Photograph by Pat Turner

Date: April 2005
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: April 2005
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2005
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 2006?
Source: photograph by volunteer
A lot of work by volunteers was needed to keep this going, with rotas of servers setting out tables and chairs, preparing urns, washing up, laundering linen, requesting cakes from volunteer bakers and tidying up at the end of the afternoon. Sometimes very little money has been taken, sometimes there has been a great contribution to the garden funds.

Date: March 2006
Source: photograph by volunteer
Cordylines can be seen in PGPT002, planted lower on the rockworks.

Date: 2006
Source: photograph by volunteer
Water was laid on to trickle down the ‘steps’ which descend from the lump of clinker at the top, just to the right of the cordyline.


Date: 2006
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Date April 2006
Source Photograph taken by volunteer

The path behind runs from the southern end of the main lawn to the eastern end of the Rustic bridge. A pioneer volunteer remembers his pleasure at ‘discovering’ this path in the early days of restoration. it had been ‘lost’ amid the overgrown shrubs.

Date: 2006
Source: photograph by Cynthia Gibling

Date May 2006
Source Photograph by volunteer
The ‘blind arcading’ built into the terrace wall behind the volunteer workers is a good illustration of the ecclesiastical appearance of many structures in the garden. Below the arcading is a niche which resembles nothing so much as a ‘holy water stoup’ – an unlikely choice for an ardent Baptist!

Date: early 21c
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Date: early 2000s
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: c.2000
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 2006
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: September 2006
Source: photograph by volunteer
It appears on the lawn of the Plantation house in photographs from the 1940s and 1950s, when a gardener (PGPT014) and various midwives (e.g.PGPT141) chose it as a background for their photographs. It was still in that position when the Trust took over the garden in 1980, although the upper tier was missing (cf PGPT189). Now (2013) the pieces are kept in storage.

Date: October 2006
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 2007
Source: photograph by Dubravka Yarwood

Date: April 2007
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer
He lived at Foulden Hall, Didlington, which he enlarged in 1854 and 1856. It is possible that Gunton Bros made this tile for those building works as they made other heraldic tiles for the Bedingfeld family at nearby Oxburgh Hall in the 1840s. Tiles from the latter are found in the garden (see PGPT )

Date: May 2007
Source: Photograph by Cynthia Gibling

Date: 2007
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date 2007
Source Photograph by volunteer


Date : July 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer

The 1886 photograph of the summerhouse which the modern manufacturers used to make the reproduction can be seen in PGPT The poster on the middle back wall was a reproduction of the original seen in PGPT007.

Date: July 2007
Source: photograph by volunteer Cynthia Gibling
Even though the water is recycled with a pump, it would be wasteful to keep it running all the time, and so the water is turned on at controlled times.

Date: July 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer
The terrace does not have a date built in like the ‘medieval’ wall at the other end of the garden, but it seems likely that Henry Trevor built it at an early stage, c1860: he would not have wanted to leave the bare wall of chalk at the end of his quarry garden exposed, he would have wanted to gain access to the higher ground at the South end to gain a ‘belvedere’, and there are 2 bricks with the moulded letter ‘F’ built in to various parts of the walls here which remind us that his brother, Frederick Francis, died in 1860 and may be commemorated here – there are no other individual letter bricks in the garden.

Date:July 2007 (?)
Source: Photograph by volunteer
The Gunton family brickmaking business grew rapidly from its beginnings early in the 19c, when the work of making bricks for the medieval Costessey Hall gave them the opportunity to make the medieval styles which became so popular in the mid 19c.

Date: July 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer
Bird nesting boxes have been provided in the garden too, and many birds live there. The dawn chorus has been much enjoyed by the brave souls who listen to it at 4a.m on a summer morning!

Date 2007
Source Photograph by volunteer

Date July 2007
Source Photograph by volunteer

Date: August 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Date: August 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer
Henry Trevor’s aim was that there should be attractive views down from the walks he created around the sloping sides ( see PGPT098 for plan with walks marked).

Date: October 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Date: 2007
Source: Richard Horne

Date 2007
Source: Volunteer’s photograph
The design was based on a drawing (no.653) in the 1898 catalogue of Boulton and Paul. The drawing was of a shelter in front of a stable. The maker was Richard Horne (cf PGPT094/5). Oak was the timber used. The photograph show the components before assembly on site.

Date: 1898 and October 2007
Source: Boulton & Paul catalogue and photograph by volunteer

The oak shelter finished!(see PGPT057,094/5,117/8). Also visible is the Victorian post box used as an ‘honesty box’ for entrance fees when no volunteers are present (see PGPT084).

Date : September 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer


Note the gazebo which had served as a shelter for the volunteers tea breaks in the past.

Date 2007
Source Photograph by volunteer


Date: September 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer
Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.


Date: September 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer
Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.

Date: October 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.

Date: October 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer
Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.

Date: October 2007
Source: Photograph by volunteer
Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.

Date: 2007
Source: photograph in PGPT archive
Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.

Date 2008
Source Photograph by volunteer
Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.

Date: April 2008
Source: Photograph by volunteer
Otas que in perfero debis demperibus di doluptat plique est, odi omnieni denduntur ad qui id quia quam quodio quatet et ut quatur, sunditem nus, consent quuntia veniet, quam faceaquam endam essunt ma comniat.
Utatem aut quo totatur, si dolorem vidunt la assed mi, nobit, omniae quat molorrum explitint re sa simus aut vitibus.

Spring
Source: Photos by Dubravka Yarwood



Date: April 2008
Source: photographs by Dubravka Yarwood
left, Wallflowers/Tulips

Date 2008
Source Photograph by Cynthia Gibling
The flints, as usual, were embedded in chalk, which by the 19c was burnt in 2 lime kilns in the garden to make mortar for building work.

Date: 2008
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2008
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 2008
Source: photograph by Dubravka Yarwood

Date: July 2008
Source: photograph by volunteer
N.B. in the background a polytunnel which was later replaced with a permanent greenhouse in 2009.

Date: 2008
Source: photograph by Cynthia Gibling
She has regularly shown favouritism towards those plants which originate from her native South Africa!

Date: 2008
Source: photograph by Dubravka Yarwood

Date: August 2008
Source: photograph by Marjorie Wilson

Date: August 2008
Source: photograph by Marjorie Wilson

Date: October 2008
Source: Photograph by volunteer

Date: October 2008
Source: photograph by Cynthia Gibling

Date: October 2008
Source: Photograph by volunteer
Hodges donated the sign to the PGPT, and it was decided to restore and erect it in the entrance yard, together with an information board about the history of Trevor Page.

Date: October 2008
Source: Photograph by volunteer
It has the date 1880 carved into the brick, almost hidden among the carvings of fruit and foliage, and the letter ‘J’ (?) may be carved in the centre. This is one of the few dated items that appear in the garden, and shows that Henry Trevor was continually changing and adding to his garden.

Date: October 2008
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 2008
Source: photograph by Shirley-Ann Humphries

Date: Spring 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer

Gable restoration completed Spring 2009

Date 2009
Source Photographs by Douglas Stewart, volunteer


Date: February 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer

The retaining wall in the south west corner of the main lawn was restored by building an inner skin of breeze blocks, then adding a facing built in ‘Trevoresque’ style using the many fancy bricks which had been gathered from around the garden and stored in the shed since 1980. As described in PGPT211, all the builders who have worked on restorations have become enthusiastic about examining original walls and adapting ideas from them.

Speckled Wood butterfly
2009


Date: March 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer
This picture shows it in the course of construction.

Date: 2009
Source: photograph by Cynthia Gibling
While this greenhouse is not an exact replica of the original, it is typical of the style of the time.

Date: July 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date July 2009
Source Photograph by volunteer
Volunteers emptied it every day after the occasion when a thief broke the box to reach the money.

Date: 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: July 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer
Otherwise the scene is one of improvements: the restored summerhouse at the top of the steps, the restored S.W.wall (cf PGPT129).

Date: 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer


Date: July 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer

Date: 20th September 2009
Source: photograph by volunteer
This photograph was taken when the greenhouse was officially opened by chairman Nick Belfield-Smith.

Date: December 2009
Source: photograph by Andy Jones