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Monthly Archives: March 2014

BOXWOOD!!

21 Friday Mar 2014

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boxwood, Darin Baier, Gaiety Hollow, pruning boxwood hedges, spring garden

Have you ever trimmed boxwood?  It’s back-breaking work, but work that makes all the difference in a formal garden.  I have trimmed boxwood, so was especially delighted to meet master trimmer Darin Baier at Gaiety Hollow this morning…and he let me watch him work (and gave me a few pointers!).  When I arrived I was absolutely amazed and delighted at the progress since last week…

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Darin had just finished trimming, at Gretchen Carnaby’s direction, the hedges to 20 inches and the balls to 28…

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…oops…he said he really needed to make the hedges 18 and the balls 26 inches so when they got a little growth they would be PERFECT!  Out came the big hedge trimmer and he was off and running…

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It’s always a pleasure to be in the garden and today I appreciated anew the remaining old oak…

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and more trimming…

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Darin thought MAYBE he’d have enough stamina to get to this section of hedge today…we’ll see…he says each section is an adventure!

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New Sidewalk!

19 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Gaiety Hollow, garden, root removal, sidewalk replacement

The public sidewalk in front of Gaiety Hollow was in rough shape, mostly due to tree roots heaving the pavement upwards.  The morning of my last visit the City of Salem crew had demolished the old sidewalk, and it was all captured on film by arborist Woody Dukes.  Woody said that the old sidewalk was poured directly onto the soil, allowing the tree roots to grow under the concrete and eventually cause the sidewalk to buckle.  First they broke up and removed all the old concrete,

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then they removed offending roots (and here Woody says we’ll just have to wait and see if the trees can survive…)

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then they built the forms for the new sidewalk, giving the tree roots a little extra space…and put down gravel under where the new concrete will be poured…

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Today the city crew poured the new sidewalk and it looks pretty good…let’s hope the trees can survive…

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(I’m not sure HOW Woody got this next shot…but it’s clear the new sidewalk will be good looking!)

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Camellias, Boxwood and the Renovation

15 Saturday Mar 2014

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boxwood, camellias, Gaiety Hollow, garden, garden design, Historic Gardens, house remodel, Lord & Schryver, Lord & Schryver Conservancy, pruning boxwood hedges, white oak

When I got to the garden today the crew was just finishing up the Friday morning work party…trying to rid the garden of “invasives”…a thankless task…

goodbye invasives

and I checked the boxwoods…the severe pruning has begun…

radical trim

but you can see from this view of the unpruned on the left, recently pruned on the right, that this will be the right thing to do…

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and then the camellias are all in bloom…

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…a quick check of the new tree…

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and then I headed inside where the renovations are almost complete.  The former living room has become the meeting room…

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the dining rooms views remain the best in the house…

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and upstairs, the room over the garage that was Lord and Schryver’s office will become the “library”/”archive” room…

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and the carpet has been removed from the stairs…

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A quick fond view…

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and I was off.  Next time: the removal of the front sidewalk…will the trees live??

 

 

 

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The End of the Day

01 Saturday Mar 2014

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Elwood, Gaiety Hollow, garden, Historic Gardens, Lord & Schryver Conservancy, stump grinding, stump removal, tree planting, white oak

The last photos have rolled in this evening showing the oak in situ, the magical machine that grinds stump by remote control, and the Townsend’s warbler doing a good imitation of a hummingbird.

After we left the intrepid team worked on and on (THANK YOU ADAM!!!) and the tree is in place.  It went like this…

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And earlier Gretchen was telling me of the miraculous stump grinder from Elwood that works remotely…the guy hardly even needs boots…

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It was a long day for our intrepid crew…a day that proved above all else that FOCUS and PERSEVERENCE are part of the L&S story.  Congratulations Gretchen, David, Woody, Joyce, ADAM….hooray!

and here are Woody’s photos of that Townsend’s warbler pretending to be a hummingbird.

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