Today was our new garden advocate/curator’s first meeting with the volunteers at Gaiety Hollow.  Lindsey Kerr is newly arrived from Connecticut where she has been managing a private estate garden since finishing her graduate work.  I went along to meet Lindsey so I could introduce her to you, but first had to wander the garden.  On Friday the story is a little different than my usual solitary adventures.  The people who do the work to keep this garden beautiful are actually in the garden every Friday…

Serious dead-heading was going on…

work on the bench and the arbor progresses…guess who?

Name tags were in order today…

tools and snacks at the ready…

…special delivery from Amazon…

Gretchen and Lindsey talk boxwood…

a maverick.

I take a turn through the garden…

our vintage view for today…

before getting down to work.  I wanted to get a picture of Lindsey and the volunteers “in the garden”…so here they are.

And here’s Lindsey Kerr.  As she settles in, she will be in the garden everyday.  She’ll be learning about Oregon plants and climate, as well as trying to absorb the history of Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver as plants-women and architects.  She feels this is especially important so that she understands the right plant choices and care of the garden going forward.  She is interested in meeting you and looks forward to jumping into the Gaiety Hollow community with both feet.  Soon she will be writing blog posts about her daily activities in the garden as well as her thoughts for the future.  You will enjoy meeting her, I know.

In the meantime…watch for those spider webs…this one especially beautiful this morning, filled with dew.