27 Friday Mar 2015
Posted in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver
It was a blue sky day here in Salem today…
so I thought I’d dash through the garden so you could see the fresh spring look. I don’t really have news today, just a few images…
Garden on!
15 Sunday Mar 2015
Posted in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver
I wasn’t in the garden this week, but the core group of loyal volunteers were, and here are Woody Dukes’ photos of the hard work that they were able to do. Woody was in the garden doing some fence repair…
Leaves had been raked against the fence from the other side causing a big build-up of leaves as well as some needed repair work to the fence panel…
But MEANWHILE…a crew of the most hard working and dedicated volunteers got really AGGRESSIVE about cleaning out the beds, digging out every leaf and stick they could find…in preparation for another crew to come in with mulch to cover the new irrigation lines as well as burying emerging weeds…and eventually providing moisture retention in what looks like will be the hot summer months ahead. Leaves, twigs, fallen camellias…all had to go…hats off to this crew (and if this inspires you, they are working again next Friday…Come on down!)
Joyce Zook…
Bobbie Dolp…
Molly O’Dea
Jay Raney…
Better than going to the gym! (Thanks for the photos Woody…)
07 Saturday Mar 2015
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brick pathways, Etahn Allen, Gaiety Hollow, Garden in winter, Lord & Schryver, Lord & Schryver Conservancy, NW Rugs, Spencer's Antiques, spring garden
While the rest of the country has been suffering a severe winter, here in the Pacific Northwest we have been happily in the “spring-time” mood for a month or so, brought on by sunshine and warm temperatures. Gaiety Hollow is coming back to life and beautifully so…I was in the garden very early Tuesday morning, all alone, and it was lovely…even though a tiny bit frosty…
Friday, though, I was back to check-in with the cadre of volunteers that keep this place looking good. I wonder if even our most committed readers realize that this beautiful garden would not have been saved, and would not be thriving, without the continued and total commitment of people who love the place and believe in the mission. Of course they don’t want to be mentioned…but sometimes I can sneak a photo or two…
This week they added forget-me-not and pansies to the tulips…”place holders” in the perennial beds for the time being…
And inside the house things are looking good. Many many thanks to neighbor Marian Milligan who recently donated these two little art pieces that she purchased back in the 1980’s from the estate sale at the house…they are the only things we have that are original to the house…(anybody else out there have something they bought from that sale???? Donations happily accepted…)
The intention of the conservancy is NOT to run the house as a house museum, but to have it be a working place, a place for meetings, seminars, etc. But it is nice to have a few civilizing touches and many thanks this week to Ethan Allen, NW rugs and Spencer’s Antigues for keeping our recent purchases well within budget. An alabaster lamp, a new rug, and the little graceful game table that now warm the entry of the house are nice touches…
The garden sparkles outside the windows…calling us back out…
Once outside we notice the terrific laminated garden plan that gardeners can use and mark on with erasable markers…
a final look around…
and we’re off…stay tuned for the coming story of recreating the front gate…Happy Gardening!!
14 Saturday Feb 2015
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Taking advantage of the good weather, the crew arrived early to spread compost and “attack the invasives”. By the time I got there at 10 they were nearly done…
and though yesterday it looked like this…
by 10:30…Shirley and the rest had it looking pretty tidy…
…with a little time for a chat about aegopodium podagraria…!
12 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, House, Lord & Schryver, Uncategorized
The early spring things are popping up at Gaiety Hollow this week……outside things were green in the warm sunshine…a perfect afternoon to be in the garden…
and inside the archives committee was having fun (l. to r. Ruth Roberts, Bobbie Dolp, Valerie McIntosh, Gayle Meaders…missing from this photo were Ross Sutherland and David Lichter)
Inside the new chairs and tables have arrived, so watch the website for the rental information…the house will be a wonderful place for a variety of community meetings and events…
The garden from inside looking out was beckoning,
so off I went…into the sunny day.
14 Wednesday Jan 2015
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camellias, daphne, ecto-parasite, Gaiety Hollow, Historic House and Garden, Lord & Schryver, Oregon Winter Garden
Yesterday was a bright sunny January day in the garden…
Sharon Rose and I arrived for an Archive Committee meeting…
and since she’s a plant biologist she explained the ectoparasite mistletoe in the white oak while we waited for the meeting to begin…(not harmful, for the most part…)
and then we walked around the garden a bit. An Oregon garden on a January sunny day is full of spring…
22 Monday Dec 2014
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celebrate gardens, Edith Scyryver, Elizabeth Lord, Gaiety Hollow, Lord & Schryver Conservancy, National Register of Historic Places, vintage garden photos
The Lord and Schryver Conservancy announced today that the Gaiety Hollow garden has been accepted to the National Register of Historic Places…the perfect Christmas present for the garden and its many supporters. 
The nomination was written by board member and L&S archivist Ross Sutherland…with help from the SHPO office here in Salem…
“It is perhaps the best example of their life’s work, a place where they could play out their design principles freely, unfettered by clients’ wishes,” said Bobbie Dolp, president of the Lord and Schryver Conservancy, which has spent 15 years reinvigorating the history and gardens of Lord and Schryver. “The garden draws on classical garden design traditions but also has a distinctive Pacific Northwest flair, showcasing plants suited to the region.”
“The scale and quality of Lord and Schryver’s work at Gaiety Hollow is of particular significance for today’s garden visitors who are looking for garden design and plants suited to their lives,” added Carlo Balistrieri, the Garden Conservancy’s vice president of preservation. “The Garden Conservancy is pleased to be working with the Lord and Schryver Conservancy to develop Gaiety Hollow’s potential as a resource for the region.”
Lord and Schryver established the firm in 1929, a time when very few landscape architects in Oregon were able to sustain a private practice, which Lord and Schryver, nonetheless, did for 40 years. They established a varied practice, encompassing everything from gardens to large civic projects. In 1932, they moved to the site where architect Clarence Smith designed new offices and living quarters for them. Lord and Schryver designed the “home garden” itself, which enabled them to both showcase their work and experiment with new design ideas and planting schemes.
Lord and Schryver met on a tour of European gardens in 1927, a tour for alumni of Lowthorpe School. Both Lord and Schryver were alumae but attended the school a few years apart so did not meet until the trip…and here they are in Spain in 1927…where maybe the dialog was started…
Ownership of the property is being transferred to the conservancy in June as the money for the purchase has been raised, but there is still LOTS to do. Keep Gaiety Hollow in mind this week as you write your year-end checks. Local, beautiful, historic…Salem’s own. Merry Christmas!
10 Wednesday Dec 2014
Posted in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, House, Lord & Schryver
I popped in to Gaiety Hollow yesterday to see what the Archive committee was up to…
Ross Sutherland was conducting business and Ruth Roberts brought in some files from her vast store of research material amassed over 20 years of sleuthing gardens and taking photos…
I headed upstairs…
to take a look at the “archive room”…this room was Lord and Schryver’s office for all the years they were in business. It’s over the garage and slightly lower than the full second floor…
The Lord and Schryver Conservancy is just now gathering and relocating materials so that the Archive Room can eventually serve as a central research space for the work of Lord and Schryver.
Being in the house is fun, but one MUST peek out at the views of the garden, even on a dreary Oregon day…
Deepwood Estates recently gifted L&S with Elizabeth Lord’s rocking chair…
Want to help??? The Conservancy is actively seeking items from the home estate sale in the mid 1980’s, but most importantly PHOTOS of Lord and Schryver, in or out of the garden. And begin thinking about your possible year end donation…more on that next time!
26 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver, Vintage Photos
At Gaiety Hollow we are so very thankful for all the volunteers and donors who have given so generously this year with time and financial support to bring this garden to its full glory. The journey is full of fun, excitement, with only occasional gnarly details (aegopodium for instance…)
We hope you’ll continue to stay with us as the garden year continues!!!!
Here’s a vintage view looking north, when the old oak still stood…Happy Thanksgiving!
24 Monday Nov 2014
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My favorite correspondent, volunteer and arborist Woody Dukes, sent along these photos of the pruning going on at the Gaiety Hollow garden last Friday. These photos are his.
Here are Jay and Anne Raney working on the “tall and straggly sarcococca under the dining room bay window…”
with Molly O’Dea packing off the cuttings, here and after pruning the untidy laurel hedge on the alley…
Woody Dukes and Bobby Dolp worked on the osmanthus (on the right over the cart) west of the holly hedge. They hand-pruned instead of the shearing that worked for the holly hedge.
Woody says that last week Gretchen Carnaby worked to get the rose on the alley fence back in bounds…here’s what it looked like in the summer:
and here when Gretchen finished…
Stay tuned for the pruning of the camellias and rhododendrons as weather permits…
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