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Open Garden this weekend April 9

04 Tuesday Apr 2017

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Please join us at Gaiety Hollow for our first Open Garden of the season! Visitors may wander through the gardens at their leisure and speak with our volunteers stationed throughout the property. The garden will be open 1-4pm. Admission is $5 for anyone over the age of 16. Gaiety Hollow is located at 545 Mission St. in Salem, OR.

Below is a partial list of plants in bloom this week. Scientific names are italicized.

In the front yard and along the Allée:

Crab apple (scientific name Malus) just beginning to open by front door

Camellias

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Viburnum davidii 

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Skimmia japonica (female plants have red fruit, male plants have only flowers)

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Pieris 

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Rhododendron just beginning to open by the statue in the Allée

Hellebores

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Epimedium 

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In the Evergreen Garden:

Anemone hybrid

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Hellebores

Pieris 

Camellias

 

In the Flower Garden:

Crab apple (Malus) just beginning to open by back gate

Osmanthus delavayi under the crab apple

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Anemone nemorosa by the bench

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Tulips

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Daffodils (Narcissus)

Bellis daisies (Bellis perennis)

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Bleeding Hearts (Lamprocapnos spactabalis–try saying it out loud!)

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Forget-me-nots (Myosotis)

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Grape hyacinths (Muscari)

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Viburnum burkwoodii

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Prunus (aka flowering plum or cherries)

 

Deepwood: what’s blooming now 3/21

21 Tuesday Mar 2017

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A few photos from Deepwood this morning. Many of the Gaiety Hollow plants are repeated at Deepwood. Here are a few new plants and a few that were too pretty no to include a second time.

In the Tea House Garden.

Bergenia
Rhododendron ‘Christmas Cheer’
Spirea
Hyacinthus
Anemone
Pulmonaria
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Ranunculus

Walking down to the the Scroll Garden.

Chaenomeles (quince)
Magnolia
Erythronium (lamb’s tongue)

Near the entrance from Mission St.

Clusiana tulip
Skimmia japonica
Arabis

Camellias by the house foundation

Oemleria cerasiformis (Indian plum), a native plant common throughout the Deepwood natural areas.

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Gaiety Hollow: what’s blooming now 3/21

21 Tuesday Mar 2017

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In an effort to help our docent program answer questions about plants in the gardens, I am going to periodically post a stream of photos of flowers and plants identified. I hope that some of these photos might entice you to visit the gardens.

(Click on or mouse-over the image for the name of the plant.)

In the front garden and West Allee.

Prunus (cherry)
Camellia japonica
Euphorbia
Daphne odora
Skimmia japonica
Pieris japonica

Scattered throughout the gardens are hellebores.

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In the Flower Garden.

Bellis perenis (Bellis daisy)
Narcissus (daffodil)
Hyacinthus (hyacinth)
Narcissus (daffodil)
Leucojum (snowflake)
Erysimum (wallflower)
Muscari neglectum (grape hyacinth)

In the Drying Garden.

Viburnum bodnantense
Primula (primrose)
Hyacinthus (hyacinth)

February Flowers

13 Monday Feb 2017

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Lindsey Kerr. Curator/Garden Manager

As we start the second week of February, the garden has begun waking up. Birds are singing in the camellias and snowdrops, crocus, and hellebores are in full bloom.

Helleborus
Daphne
Galanthus (aka common snowdrop)
Crocus

This week we will begin purchasing our early spring annuals and, weather permitting, see them safely tucked into the Flower Garden soil later this week.

Viola (aka pansies)
Primula (aka primrose)
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Join us on March 3rd for our “Mind The Gaps” Oregon Humanities conversation with Jade Aquilar and get a sneak peak of the gardens in early spring (registration required). Our first Garden Tour will be March 25th at 10:30am.

Grab your pen!

30 Monday Jan 2017

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Lindsey Kerr, Curator/Garden Manager

Grab your calendar! There are lots of events happening at the Lord & Schryver Conservancy this season and we don’t want you to miss out.

March 3rd. In conjunction with Oregon Humanities, we are hosting “Mind the Gaps: How Gender Shapes Our Lives,” a conversation with Jade Aguilar. Aguilar is an assistant professor of sociology and women’s and gender studies at Willamette University. Her broad areas of study are gender, sexuality, and family, and her main area of focus is the study of intentional communities. $5 per ticket. 4:30pm at Gaiety Hollow (545 Mission St. SE. Salem, OR). To register and for more information, visit the website.

March 19th. We welcome Bill Noble to give a talk on the Cornish Colony in New Hampshire. The Cornish Colony is significant to the Lord & Schryver story because Edith Schryver cut her teeth as a landscape architect while working for Ellen Shipman who was part of the Cornish Colony. You can see the direct influence of the Colony style on Schryver’s designs.$10 per ticket. 2pm at the Willamette Heritage Center’s Dye House. More information and tickets on the website .

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March 25th. Our first Garden Tours of the season! We will be offering guided tours of the Lord & Schryver gardens at Deepwood Museum & Gardens and Gaiety Hollow on the 4th Saturday of the month, March-September. Trained docents will walk visitors through the gardens and share information about their history and design. Note that tours at Deepwood will begin promptly at 9am. Tours of Gaiety Hollow will begin at 10:30am. Tour dates are 3/25, 4/22, 5/27, 6/24 (no Deepwood), 7/22, 8/20, 9/23. Each tour is $5 per person over the age of 16.

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April 9. The first Open Garden at Gaiety Hollow will take place. Gaiety Hollow will be open to visitors the 2nd Sunday of the month, April through September, 1-4pm. Visitors may wander through the several “rooms” that make up the gardens and enjoy them at their own pace. Volunteers will be on-hand to answer questions. Open garden dates are 4/9, 5/14, 6/11, 7/9, 8/13, 9/10. Admission to the gardens is $5 for those over the age of 16.

Write all the dates in your calendar. Schedule them on your smart phone. We can’t wait to see you in the garden or at one of our educational events!

Fall is Here!

26 Monday Sep 2016

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After a too-long absence I stepped into the garden today and as usual was delighted by the fresh beauty awaiting me on this bright and sunny and warm fall Sunday.

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At the back gate I noted the wonderful copper covering of the curved wooden element on the gate frame…to keep the water out of the wood I presume, and before long it will be as green as the gate but TODAY the copper shone in the sun…

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and I then headed to the grape arbor to see the progress the builders have made.  They are, bit by bit, replacing all the wooden elements without disturbing this key central bit of hardscape.  It has been fascinating to watch…

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They are even removing the comfy bench and lattice under the arbor (where I have spent a LOT of time looking and drawing)…here it is in spring

L&S winter 2013 arbor and boy

and today dismantled for repair and replacement…

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and here’s a vintage shot of the arbor…

Knight Library Home Garden Pergola looking east Lantern Slide

This week I hope to meet up with the builders and bring you more inside info…until then, watch out for those September spider webs!

 

Donald Olson to speak

29 Monday Aug 2016

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Join us September 9th in the garden, 6:00 -7:15 (545 Mission Street, Salem) to meet author Donald Olson who will present a talk across the street at the new Bush Barn Annex at 7:30…  “Five Remarkable Women, Four Remarkable Northwest Gardens”…  Donald Olson has published a book called “The Pacific Northwest Garden Tour: The Sixty Best Gardens to visit in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.”  Tickets are $25 and are available online at

http://www.lord-schryverconservancy.org or
Eventbrite

 

Passion, ambition,

determination—every great

garden has a

human story to tell.

The evening begins in the garden at Gaiety Hollow with a wine social. The presentation is a short stroll away at the new Bush Barn Annex. Donald Olson will be available after the presentation to answer questions and sign copies of his best-selling guide, The Pacific Northwest Garden Tour—The Sixty Best Gardens
to Visit in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

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Garden Tour Time!

01 Wednesday Jun 2016

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Where did May go?  The gardeners were busy getting Gaiety Hollow looking it’s best for the annual Gilbert House Garden Tour this coming Friday and Saturday, June 3 and 4.  There will be 12 gardens in South Salem open to the public and this is always a great and very fun event.  Entrance to the Gaiety Hollow garden will be from the alley just half a block north of the Mission Street address.  The tour hours are 10-4 and Saturday is predicted to be 100 so hats, sunscreen, water bottles are in order!  I took a walk through the garden yesterday and it is AMAZING at the moment…ROSES are in bloom.  Here’s your preview but believe me, you have to come see and smell the roses.

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Open Garden!

08 Friday Apr 2016

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A sunny 75 degree day today gets us all in the garden mood…for working AND for visiting.  Gaiety Hollow will begin the open garden season this year on Sunday the 10th of April, open from 1-4, 545 Mission Street SE.  If you make your way there this Sunday you’ll see that the garden is very lovely indeed, which I noted when I visited the other day…come visit!!!  Here’s a preview…

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kitchen garden

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clematis

fountain

tree peony

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See you Sunday!

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Spring is on the Way!

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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I headed to Gaiety Hollow yesterday to check progress on the reflecting pool…this work generously funded by an anonymous donor.  I always know when there’s a truck in the driveway SOMETHING is under way!

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It was the guys from Autumn Leaf Landscaping…

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the little reflecting pool used to look like this…

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and was never plumbed…maybe just filled with the garden hose.  Thanks to the donor the pool will be plumbed and have a pump that will pump recycled water keeping the pool fresh…and the process included this (i.e. electrical AND plumbing)…

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and in the meantime board members Ross Sutherland and David Lichter managed to locate a putto to go in the center of the pool when complete…

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Take a look at this vintage photo showing the original…

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After checking work progress I strolled the garden with Board President Bobbie Dolp who told me these pavers are coming up this spring to be replaced with grass, as it was originally…

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and the garden is still beautiful in in its shaggy late winter state…with lots blooming…

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And Bobbie mentioned the plan to replace the entire pergola, bit by bit, this coming summer…

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Additionally Dolp said…

“There is much that is glorious.  The camellias, viburnum and daphne are in full glory at the moment.  The flowering trees are just waiting for a few more days of warmth.

This week the reflecting pool is being restored.  There is even an appropriate putto to grace the scene.  The carpentry crew has continued to work on the perimeter fences.  We also have some grant money for new tools so some of those old gems can be replaced.

There is much to do; the grape on the pergola needs to be cut back along with some of the epimediums that got by the trimming last fall.  Roses need pruning.  And then of course there are those plants that love to challenge our determination.”

Friday volunteer work parties begin soon…consider coming to work in an amazing garden…