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Monthly Archives: April 2015

The New Front Gate!

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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Gaiety Hollow, gates, Historic Gardens, Lord & Schryver

I had a moment alone in the garden this morning…it was blooming…

Allee 4-28-15

and while I was waiting for David and George to arrive with the new gate, I found this well-worn plan for the new sprinkler/drip system on the garage floor…

taer systemplan

But let’s do some gate recap.  Last week I saw the old gate…

old wooden L&S gate

and these (to me) mysterious “new” gate posts…(“how are they going to put a wooden gate on these?,” I thought…)

post

But today I found out when David and George arrived with these ingenious and beautifully crafted wooden posts engineered to slip over the metal ones…

post fitting 1

post fitting 2

post fitting 3

posts in place

post

gate/hand

gate looking south

gate looking north

The gate had to go back in the shop today for some final adjustments and some paint, but you can see how beautiful it will be!!  Amazing skilled volunteers to the rescue.

 

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A Cold and Rainy Friday Report

25 Saturday Apr 2015

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It was cold and overcast when I checked in this morning at Gaiety Hollow.  Undaunted, Woody was on a ladder putting the finishing pruning touches on the sasanqua camellia for this season…

pruning

He explained about opening the interior of the plant this season and waiting for the new buds to form before he can prune front to back next year…

pruning 2

There were tools everywhere…

tools 1 tools 2 tools 3

evidence of pruning…

pruning 3

David showed me the old gate that had been stored in the Deepwood coach house…this one designed by L&S about 10 years after the house was built…they replaced the architect Clarence Smith’s gate with one of their own design.

old wooden L&S gate

…similar in feel to this one they designed for a client in the 1930’s…

gate drawing

After about 60 years of service, it was replaced with this metal gate….

newish iron gate

but now David and George have made a new wooden gate which will soon go here…

gate space

The allee and the flowering shrubs were in bloom…

Allee from lawn

Allee 3

Allee 2

but I thought you might like to see some of the vintage photos of the garden at this time of year…here it was in 1950…

Knight Library Home Garden Dogwood + Focal Point, West Allee May 1950

and more…

Home Garden - West Allee 1 (DS)

1952…(the garden was 20 years old)

Home Garden - Evergreen Garden looking north (DS)

Home Garden - Evergreen Garden looking S (DS)

and the tulips…

Home Garden - Flower Garden 1 (DS)

See you next week!

 

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A Beautiful Day to “Hard Prune”

17 Friday Apr 2015

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Ellen Biddle Shipman, Gaiety Hollow, garden benches, gardens, Historic Gardens

Friday is volunteer day at Gaiety Hollow so I headed over there this morning…

view from the gate

view from gate 2

tulips

tulips detail

The volunteers were taking their coffee break and “talking gardens”…

coffee groupvolunteers having coffee

Along with the blueberry banana bread, Gretchen had Judith Tankard’s excellent book on the early and influential garden designer Ellen Biddle Shipman (for whom Edith Schryver worked in New York for City 5 years in the 1920’s)…

coffee cake

Judith Tankard's book

Gretchen had been searching for evidence that Shipman had ever used a white Lutyen’s-type bench in any of her gardens…and…

bench 3

bench 2

bench 1

This is good news because we have such a bench, thanks to Nan and George Happ (kindly donated when they moved to an urban loft last year), look for it later this season!

Nan's bench

But the talk turned to soil and compost and less glamorous topics…because every garden has less glamorous topics…

ugh

which make the more glamorous things possible…

blooming

clematis

 

 

 

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Pruning and Tulips

11 Saturday Apr 2015

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the garden.  LOTS of pruning has been going on including work on the sasanqua camellia near the back door…Here it is when arborist Woody Dukes was just under way…

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and here’s a photo from 1988…

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Woody kept working…

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In the meantime garden volunteers Shirlee Sliger and Jay Raney worked on opposite side of the big central pergola….

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The two tree peonies are beautiful, though taking a beating in the rain…(I sometimes wish they didn’t bloom so early…)

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and though Woody sent me all these nice pruning photos, I really wanted a quick walk through the garden this morning by myself.  It was cool, sunny, a little wet…the birds were singing and the tulips were up…I was happy to be there!

tulips

view north

You can almost smell these lilacs, yes?

Lilacs

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