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Gardens–and trees!–in bloom

25 Thursday May 2017

Posted by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager in Deepwood, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver, Tours, trees, Uncategorized

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Deepwood, Deepwood Gardens, gardens, hawthorn, May, trees

The Tea House garden at Deepwood Museum & Gardens is already putting on a beautiful show. Poppies, iris, roses, foxglove, allium, and many more flowers were in bloom this afternoon. Most of the summer annuals have been planted and are ready to flower. The heat earlier this week made many of the plants grow quickly.

Foxglove
Foxglove
Iris
Iris
Rose
Rose
Poppy
Poppy
Allium
Allium

An exciting bit of news for the historic garden nerds among us:

A few years ago, the much loved hawthorn tree next to the Tea House was removed.  In searching through records, volunteers discovered that Lord & Schryver purchased a white hawthorn for Deepwood in 1932.  They were perplexed as the tree blooming by the Tea House had a pink double flower. They contacted nurseries and searched online to find a replacement but there appeared to be none available in the US.

When the tree was removed, however, two shoots coming up from the roots were saved. One was left at Deepwood–to hopefully thrive and replace the historic tree–and one was taken to Gaiety Hollow to serve as a back-up . The volunteers waited to see what the young hawthorns would turn out to be. Would they come true to the historic tree? Or was the old tree grafted and the shoots would be from the root stock?

Well, this week the volunteers got a beautiful surprise. The young trees both bloomed masses of fluffy white double flowers–matching Lord & Schryver’s records–and then faded to pink–just as our volunteers remembered.

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Not the most beautiful photo, but it’s double and pink!

As photos were shared by email and text, you might have heard a few cheers echoing across the Valley.

Unfortunately, the intense heat made the hawthorn flowers fade and disappear all too quickly. But, the gardens at Deepwood are full of flowers and more than enough reason to visit. There will be a tour of the gardens this Saturday at 9am for those interested in hearing more stories about their creation and rehabilitation.

A second tour will take place at Gaiety Hollow at 10:30. The old hawthorns at the front gate are in full bloom and simply covered in clusters of white flowers. It is no wonder why Lord and Schryver chose to plant these trees with a view from their bedrooms and studio!

Hawthorn
Hawthorn
Looking out the front door
Looking out the front door
View from Elizabeth's bedroom
View from Elizabeth’s bedroom

The annual display in the Flower Garden is also taking off, with campanula, roses, peonies, petunias, ageratum, alyssum, and daisies all blooming together. Come for a visit!

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Newspaper Mulch

19 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Lord & Schryver Conservancy in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver

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Aegopodium, Deepwood, Gaiety Hollow, Historic Gardens, Lord and Schryver, newspaper mulch, weed control

Friday morning at Gaiety Hollow, sunny and bright…

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Gretchen was already there with a load of mulch…

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They are putting down a newspaper mulch to keep down the aegopodium.  The method is as follows:  water heavily the night before, place newspapers all over the desired area,3wet newspapers fully…

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layer mulch—3-8 inches dep7ending on the situation…on top of newspapers

cover newspapers fully with mulch…

mulch

cross fingers for a good result.

NOTE:  The tea garden at Deepwood IS a Lord and Schryver design, but no planting plan exists so the restoration has included a bit of guesswork according to what was in the garden and the plant lists favored by L&S.

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Maintaining Brick Paths

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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brick pathways, brick restoration, Deepwood, Gaiety Hollow, garden volunteers, Historic Gardens, Lord and Schryver

Its been a long time since my last news bulletin on the garden at Gaiety Hollow.  The National Garden Conservancy team was here for a visit in August, and a LOT of work has been done…done by volunteers.  The Gaiety Hollow Garden welcomes volunteers on Friday mornings from 9:00-12:00 and let me just add that not only is it work/fun and you are helping an amazing cause, it is an excellent short course in pruning, brick restoration, invasives, transplanting, and numerous other garden activities and techniques.   Just showing up to take pictures, I’ve learned a LOT!  (…and there is always somebody there who really knows what to do and instructs…as well as providing coffee…)

The project this month has been the brick paths.  As lovers of Lord & Schryver gardens know, L&S LOVED brick paths…nowhere more than here, in their home garden.  Over time though, brick paths get weedy and the Gaiety Hollow paths had begun to look like this:

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summer 2013

here’s me last spring taking some pre-easter egg hunt photos, but note the brick with a new bunch of weeds beginning to take hold in the April rain…

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So The Tuesday Morning Gardeners from FOBG (Friends of Bush Gardens) came across the street and started the process of digging the weeds out from between the bricks.  BUT, as Gretchen Carnaby pointed out…you have to dig DEEP to also get rid of the weed SEED.  I arrived at Gaiety Hollow at the end of the process,

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bricks 1

bricks 3

so today I went to the little Tea Garden at Deepwood Estate to watch the FOBG Tuesday gardeners work the brick paths there.  This garden was planted in 1932 and though no planting plans exist, we’re fairly sure it was done by Lord and Schryver for Alice Brown.  The restoration work in this garden began in 2007, and it was a joy today to see it looking absolutely beautiful…but I digress.  My mission was to see the team at work on the weed-seed-clearing and they were in full swing when I arrived…

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I went back later in the day to check out their work and it was looking very good…with lots of sand to sweep in later after a bit of watering…

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To see this garden looking so beautiful after seven years of hard restoration work was wonderful.  Heavy pruning, installation of a drip system throughout (coming to Gaiety Hollow at the end of September), replanting, weeding, tending…well I think you should go take a look.  This garden is just down the path from the parking lot at Deepwood Estate, on the right.  It looks absolutely beautiful at the moment…a calm oasis.

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Happy New Year!

01 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Lord & Schryver Conservancy in Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver, Uncategorized

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Deepwood, Gaiety Hollow, Historic Gardens, Lord & Schryver Conservancy, Volunteering

Back in 1973 David Duniway, former State Archivist…then Executive Director of Mission Mill Association, wrote a short bio of Elizabeth Lord who was honored that year in Panegyric II, an event that honored contributing citizens.  He quoted Elizabeth Lord as saying:

“Salem people have never seemed to realize the great privilege we possess to make this city one of the outstandingly beautiful cities in our country.”

Consider volunteering this year in the Lord and Schryver gardens at Gaiety Hollow, Deepwood or Bush’s Pasture Park.  Consider donating to the Gaiety Hollow fund to secure the purchase of the home garden.  Consider visiting all of Salem’s garden resources this spring and summer.  Consider thinking of Salem as a gem.

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Gate 2

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SNOW?

09 Monday Dec 2013

Posted by Lord & Schryver Conservancy in Garden, Lord & Schryver, Vintage Photos

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Deepwood, garden, Lord and Schryver, Scroll Garden, snow

The forecast is for snow tomorrow…!!  Here’s another vintage photo of ANOTHER Lord and Schryver garden…the scroll garden at Deepwood, just down the block from Gaiety Hollow…

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