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Monthly Archives: April 2019

Deepwood Update!

29 Monday Apr 2019

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The lower terrace rehabilitation project at Deepwood is really coming along, Last week the Pavers were laid down and with the wall being finished it’s a great historic restoration project in the works.

 

The Lower Terrace Rehab project is coming along nicely, it's so great to see that area looking brand new again!
The Lower Terrace Rehab project is coming along nicely, it’s so great to see that area looking brand new again!
The gazebo was sure a popular spot for the Easter Photographers.
The gazebo was sure a popular spot for the Easter Photographers.
The pastels were out in full force for Easter! Lot's of good feedback about how great the gardens look!
The pastels were out in full force for Easter! Lot’s of good feedback about how great the gardens look!
A big thanks to Lysa Hall and all the volunteers that make the Lord and Schryver Gardens at Deepwood look so amazing!
A big thanks to Lysa Hall and all the volunteers that make the Lord and Schryver Gardens at Deepwood look so amazing!
It's a show of spring color at every turn in the Teahouse Garden
It’s a show of spring color at every turn in the Teahouse Garden

 

The weather has just been fantastic this week! A bit of a North Wind blowing but Sunny Skies all around.

Happy Gardening!

Mark

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Tulip season hits its peak

23 Tuesday Apr 2019

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The rain has lightened up and the tulips are starting to hit the peak bloom this week. The replication of Elizabeth and Edith’s 1956 bulb planting plan makes for a spectacular show!

Tulipa 'Caravalle'
Tulipa ‘Caravalle’
The Tulips are starting to hit the peak at Gaiety Hollow this week.
The Tulips are starting to hit the peak at Gaiety Hollow this week.
Tulipa 'White Parrot' and Tulipa 'Yosemite'
Tulipa ‘White Parrot’ and Tulipa ‘Yosemite’
Tulipa 'Dreamland'
Tulipa ‘Dreamland’
Tulipa 'Aveyron'
Tulipa ‘Aveyron’

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An April Walk Around the Deepwood

18 Thursday Apr 2019

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Finally a spring day with some soul warming sunshine! 75 degrees in the garden today felt amazing! I took a brief walk around and snapped a few photo’s of the beautiful pre easter day.

 

Tulipa 'Foxtrot' does a great job of foiling Tulipa 'Rosalie'
Tulipa ‘Foxtrot’ does a great job of foiling Tulipa ‘Rosalie’
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Deep reds look so good on the glistening white of the outbuildings at
Deep reds look so good on the glistening white of the outbuildings at
The Teahouse Garden Tulips are just about to hit peak bloom right in time for easter
The Teahouse Garden Tulips are just about to hit peak bloom right in time for easter
Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha 'Tubergens Gem'
Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha ‘Tubergens Gem’

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The Camellias of Gaiety Hollow

16 Tuesday Apr 2019

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May 5th, 1942. It was a Tuesday. On that day in History, the US began rationing sugar during World War II. In Tremont, Mississippi,  Tammy Wynette was born. She would go on to record some great hits with “the Possum” George Jones and become known as the first lady of Country music.

And on that day in 1942, Elizabeth and Edith bought 5 distinct cultivars of Camellia, from the purchase records: May 5th 1942:

  • Camellia alba plena
  • Camellia Cheerful (Chandler)
  • Camellia ‘Francine’
  • Camellia ‘Kumasaka’
  • Camellia ‘Purity’

 

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The Camellia Collection of Lord and Schryver is still going strong, while we have some work to figure out what all the old names are, it’s a spring pleasure to enjoy the hard contrast of the shades of White, Pink and Red set so strongly on the dark green background of the evergreen foliage.

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This is one of my favorites in the Garden, the Double dark pink under the oak tree in the West Entry, it’s probably the most well behaved of the collection, only dropping a few flowers at a time. Which makes it a favorite of the gardener, because you don’t have to clean up a 100 lbs of spent blossoms every morning!

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Spring Marches on

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The Urn from the Pergola with the dark red blossoms of Magnolia on the brick.

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Deepwood Projects

11 Thursday Apr 2019

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Thursdays are Deepwood days and some fun projects are underway! Besides the usual planting of the teahouse garden, the great room has had some new flower additions this spring. We also replaced a historic Malus ‘Firebird’ Crabapple in the Scroll garden.

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The Teahouse Garden is looking splendid with the early season tulips, and the trade mark Lord and Schryver Forget-me-nots providing the foil for the spring bulbs.

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Thanks to a generous donor the Lower Terrace renovation project is underway!  This photo shows after the removal of the patio pavers that were crumbling away. The project is getting the steps redone, a new pathway surface to prevent erosion, the patio relaid, and the historic arbor rebuilt. The Lord and Schryver drawing hanging at Gaiety Hollow shows the arbor with Clematis on the West side and a canopy of Lilacs with Peonies underneath. Stay tuned for updates on this wonderful restoration taking place. 

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Bulbs of Lord and Schryver

09 Tuesday Apr 2019

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We are so fortunate that Edith and Elizabeth kept amazing records of the Bulb Plantings they did at Gaiety Hollow.

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This is the layout of the 1935 planting plan, and while many of those old varieties are no longer available, we do have the ability to make comparisons to modern selections and essentially recreate the garden at a point in time.

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Tulipa ‘Yosemite’

The bulb planting plan for this season was based on the drawings from a 1956, the old cultivar of Tulip on the drawing, which was a cultivar from 1944 called Tulipa ‘Wilhelm Tell’, which interesting enough, got translated onto the planting plan as William Tell, is no longer available a similar rose colored selection was made and Tulipa ‘Yosemite’ does an outstanding job of shining above the brick.

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Tulipa ‘Christmas Dream’

On the walk through the drying yard, Tulipa ‘Christmas Dream’ is a stand in for the 1956 choice of Tulipa ‘Pink Perfection’, which I couldn’t find a good reference to in the volumes that have been written on old tulips, there is mention of ‘Perfection’ and also a ‘Purple Perfection’.

It’s been buckets of rain here in the first week of April, with the Willamette River set to crest at a tiny bit below flood stage in Salem, but spilling it’s banks througout much of the Valley. Lot’s of the modern breeding work in tulips was done to produce strong stems that can stand up to the torrential downpours of April.

Best,
Mark

 

 

 

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Spring is here and the blog is back!

01 Monday Apr 2019

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The blog is back! I’m Mark the new Garden Manager/Curator for the Lord and Schryver Conservancy and I’m excited to share this lovely garden with you.

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The Parterre Garden at Gaiety Hollow in Early April

 

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Flower Bulbs are my Jam and this Narcissus ‘Marieke’ by the reflecting pool is stunning!

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The reflecting pool on an overcast April Day, the Pieris, Camellia’s, Daffodils and Anemone are starting to add more color everyday. 

“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”
— Mark Twain

That Mark Twain quote can’t be more appropriate for an Oregon Spring, Sun, rain, showers, hail you never know what you are going to get. This week the weather is lining up a bit grey and damp.

Cheers,

Mark

Garden Manager/Curator

Lord and Schryver Conservancy

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