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

Viburnum davidii

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

Pieris

Rhododendron just beginning to open by the statue in the Allée

Hellebores

Epimedium

In the Evergreen Garden:

Anemone hybrid

Hellebores

Pieris

Camellias

In the Flower Garden:

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

Osmanthus delavayi under the crab apple

Anemone nemorosa by the bench

Tulips

Daffodils (Narcissus)

Bellis daisies (Bellis perennis)

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

Forget-me-nots (Myosotis)

Grape hyacinths (Muscari)

Viburnum burkwoodii

Prunus (aka flowering plum or cherries)

First tour of the season

28 Tuesday Mar 2017

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This past week was a whirlwind of activity at Gaiety Hollow. We had our first tour scheduled for Saturday and we wanted the gardens to look their best. Many, many thanks to the volunteers who put in over 60 hours of work to make the gardens shine. Carpenters worked on the Pergola and cut plywood for guests and volunteers to walk on to avoid damaging the lawn. Garden volunteers filled up four large City compost bins with debris and needed to stash extra in the Service Yard.

Every day, we clean up more Camellia blossoms. You finish raking and turn around and there’s another one!
The morning of the tour, the gardens looked fresh and clean.

3_25 morning

Bobbie placed photos around the gardens so that guests could view the gardens in different seasons or years past.

3_25 tour

A sampling of camellias float in the pool.

3_25 camellia blossoms

And daffodils and grape hyacinths were at their finest.

3_28 grape hyacinths

We have more Garden Tours and Open Gardens coming up! The first Open Garden is April 9th, 1-4pm. More information on the website. We hope to see you in the gardens.

Wet and Blooming!

12 Saturday Mar 2016

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I headed to the garden this morning, even though it was cold and raining, and it was so beautiful…as it always is, though every visit is a little bit different…for one thing, the fountain is all done!!

The Cherries are in bloom…

the volunteers are back to their Friday work sessions…

Today they planted pansies…

the allee is shaggy and wildly in bloom…

the crab apples across the street in Bush’s Pasture Park (many planted by Lord and Schryver as a sort informal test garden) are in bloom, over 25 varieties in that little corner of the park…

blossoms and fallen blossoms are everywhere…

but today I came bearing gifts. Staunch garden supporter David Specht found these two books in a Newport thrift store…

the first was Elizabeth Lord’s Chaucer text book when she was a high school student at St. Helen’s Hall (now called the Oregon Episcopal School), class of 1904…

The second book a guide to Holland given to Lord by Amy Ballard in June of 1927,

just before she set off on the three month tour of European gardens. It was on this trip that Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver met and began imagining a landscape architecture practice in Salem, Oregon. David’s sharp eye has provided the Conservancy with a couple of treasures. (Note: the Lords had a beach house in nearby Seal Rock, just a stone’s throw from Newport.) Thank you David!

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!

It was the guys from Autumn Leaf Landscaping…

the little reflecting pool used to look like this…

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)…

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…

Take a look at this vintage photo showing the original…

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…

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

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

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…

Happy New Year!

02 Saturday Jan 2016

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What better thing to do to start the new year than to take a stroll through the garden at Gaiety Hollow? We’ve had a very mild winter so far, but the last few days, including today (brrr) have been COLD.

Some frost on the bricks, selectively…

ice on the little pond…

the frost on the grass…still there at 4:00 p.m. …

the mistletoe in the big oak…

and the plants that have been tricked into early bloom…

everything is trying to grow…

3600 people walked with us through this garden in 2015 on this blog, and we appreciate it. We hope you’ll continue to join us in 2016 as things grow and change, we take on some new projects, and continue to work to make the garden at Gaiety Hollow thrive.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A Cold and Rainy Friday Report

25 Saturday Apr 2015

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It was cold and overcast when I checked in this morning at Gaiety Hollow. Undaunted, Woody was on a ladder putting the finishing pruning touches on the sasanqua camellia for this season…

He explained about opening the interior of the plant this season and waiting for the new buds to form before he can prune front to back next year…

There were tools everywhere…

evidence of pruning…

David showed me the old gate that had been stored in the Deepwood coach house…this one designed by L&S about 10 years after the house was built…they replaced the architect Clarence Smith’s gate with one of their own design.

…similar in feel to this one they designed for a client in the 1930’s…

After about 60 years of service, it was replaced with this metal gate….

but now David and George have made a new wooden gate which will soon go here…

The allee and the flowering shrubs were in bloom…

but I thought you might like to see some of the vintage photos of the garden at this time of year…here it was in 1950…

and more…

1952…(the garden was 20 years old)

and the tulips…

See you next week!

The Winter Garden

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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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…

Sprinkler Update

15 Saturday Nov 2014

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The sprinklers are in, the porta-potty is gone, and now as late fall closes in, the garden will have a welcome dormant time to “regroup” and heal. First the nice long views…

…the new drip system looks like it will make a big difference, come spring…

and the trenches are nicely filled in (a bit muddy, but not too bad…)

but the most amazing part of this November visit was the big camellia near the kitchen door…in full bloom! Ahh gardens…roll on winter!

Camellias, Boxwood and the Renovation

15 Saturday Mar 2014

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When I got to the garden today the crew was just finishing up the Friday morning work party…trying to rid the garden of “invasives”…a thankless task…

and I checked the boxwoods…the severe pruning has begun…

but you can see from this view of the unpruned on the left, recently pruned on the right, that this will be the right thing to do…

and then the camellias are all in bloom…

…a quick check of the new tree…

and then I headed inside where the renovations are almost complete. The former living room has become the meeting room…

the dining rooms views remain the best in the house…

and upstairs, the room over the garage that was Lord and Schryver’s office will become the “library”/”archive” room…

and the carpet has been removed from the stairs…

A quick fond view…

and I was off. Next time: the removal of the front sidewalk…will the trees live??

The Garden Comes Back to Life!

28 Friday Feb 2014

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Gaiety Hollow is an old garden, as you know. The lovely small hedges and decorative trees have become huge, so the problem of scale is now on the agenda…big time! The problem becomes how to strike a balance between the original intent when the garden was planted, and the fact of maturity in an historic garden. It took Darin 12 hours to prune the massively overgrown hedges at the front of the house. He saved some sections for infill and when we got there today Gretchen Carnaby, David Lichter and Joyce Zook were hard at work…take a look…

He didn’t prune the inside of the hedges…Gretchen said next year or the year after for that…when the street-side has filled out…

but the BIG news for today was the arrival and planting of the new white oak to replace the fallen giant, the donation of John Miller. Adam volunteered to work on digging the chips from the old oak out of the dirt left in the hole. Any chips of the old tree will rob nitrogen from the new tree and retard healthy growth…

David and Joyce jumped in to help, along with arborist Woody Dukes assessing the chip-to-dirt ratio… (it looked a little like a needle in a haystack…)

COFFEE BREAK!

(I DIDN’T get a shot of the Townsend’s Warbler with it’s nose in the camellia)

Woody pointed out the snow damage in the camellias…

and worse yet, the squirrel damage. The squirrels are killing off the tops of various camellias by girdling the trees to eat the bark. Look just above Woody’s finger and you can see where the bark has been gnawed off…

just below the stripped trunk is a strong shoot in healthy bark, so in due course Woody will remove the now yellowed and dying top and the new shoot will fill in.

Gretchen pointed out to me one of the next projects…an espaliered camellia that is very overgrown, and is going to be massively pruned…here it is today, with Gretchen’s note that it has a strong interior structure…so stay tuned for the results…

On our way out we checked the new little white oak, waiting to be planted…

A lot of activity for the sunny and bright last day of February!

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Open Garden this weekend April 9

First tour of the season

Wet and Blooming!

Spring is on the Way!

Happy New Year!

A Cold and Rainy Friday Report

The Winter Garden

Sprinkler Update

Camellias, Boxwood and the Renovation

The Garden Comes Back to Life!