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Coming of Age at Gaiety Hollow

17 Wednesday Jun 2015

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It has been a banner month here at Gaiety Hollow.  First came the announcement that the Portland Garden Club had recommended Gaiety Hollow for a special commendation for outstanding work in garden restoration…(a nice connection since Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver had close ties with the Portland Garden Club, giving their first lantern slide lecture on European gardens at the Portland Garden Club in 1929.)

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We were very pleased to have something like this come along to “put us on the map”…especially right now.

The Kingery family (the Kingery’s grew up in an L&S garden in Portland, which they loved) purchased Gaiety Hollow from the Strand family in 2013 (the Strands had bought the garden at 545 Mission Street from Edith Schryver in the mid 1980’s and taken exceptional care of house and garden for nearly 3 decades, keeping the work and spirit of L&S alive…).  The Kingerys did this to help the L&S Conservancy bring the garden into public domain, and gave the Conservancy 5 years to raise the money to purchase the property.  In just two years, thanks to our many loyal donors, the money was raised, and Monday Liz Kingery Warren…

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turned the keys over to L&S Board president Bobbie Dolp.  It’s OURS!!

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This morning it was on the front page!!  Yay!  Thank you Kingerys…from our whole community…what a gift.

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I wanted to take a few shots in the garden today…and I usually go in the morning, so it was fun to be there on a warm afternoon and smell the fragrant roses everywhere in the garden…

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hydrangeas in bloom…

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and inside a very happy board meeting, with much to celebrate…

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Zinnias!!!

05 Friday Jun 2015

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Today was zinnia day in the garden.  Lord and Schryver loved zinnias and used them a lot…densely planted in sunny parterres, drifts among the roses, and over bulbs.  When the tulips are finished out they come, and in go the zinnias…which are immediately dead-headed…only the youngest buds are allowed to remain…

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Luckily I arrived just as the crew was taking a break for coffee…

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but they were quickly back to work planting the few remaining zinnia plants…

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The hole is dug fairly deep and the process involves adding a pinch of bone meal and a pinch of organic fertilizer…

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and it goes like this (thank you Joyce)…

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and then soak them good…and wait…

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Just in time for summer!

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