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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…

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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…

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There were tools everywhere…

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evidence of pruning…

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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.

old wooden L&S gate

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

gate drawing

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

newish iron gate

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

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The allee and the flowering shrubs were in bloom…

Allee from lawn

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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…

Knight Library Home Garden Dogwood + Focal Point, West Allee May 1950

and more…

Home Garden - West Allee 1 (DS)

1952…(the garden was 20 years old)

Home Garden - Evergreen Garden looking north (DS)

Home Garden - Evergreen Garden looking S (DS)

and the tulips…

Home Garden - Flower Garden 1 (DS)

See you next week!

 

A Beautiful Day to “Hard Prune”

17 Friday Apr 2015

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Friday is volunteer day at Gaiety Hollow so I headed over there this morning…

view from the gate

view from gate 2

tulips

tulips detail

The volunteers were taking their coffee break and “talking gardens”…

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Along with the blueberry banana bread, Gretchen had Judith Tankard’s excellent book on the early and influential garden designer Ellen Biddle Shipman (for whom Edith Schryver worked in New York for City 5 years in the 1920’s)…

coffee cake

Judith Tankard's book

Gretchen had been searching for evidence that Shipman had ever used a white Lutyen’s-type bench in any of her gardens…and…

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bench 2

bench 1

This is good news because we have such a bench, thanks to Nan and George Happ (kindly donated when they moved to an urban loft last year), look for it later this season!

Nan's bench

But the talk turned to soil and compost and less glamorous topics…because every garden has less glamorous topics…

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which make the more glamorous things possible…

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clematis

 

 

 

Pruning and Tulips

11 Saturday Apr 2015

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the garden.  LOTS of pruning has been going on including work on the sasanqua camellia near the back door…Here it is when arborist Woody Dukes was just under way…

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and here’s a photo from 1988…

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Woody kept working…

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In the meantime garden volunteers Shirlee Sliger and Jay Raney worked on opposite side of the big central pergola….

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The two tree peonies are beautiful, though taking a beating in the rain…(I sometimes wish they didn’t bloom so early…)

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and though Woody sent me all these nice pruning photos, I really wanted a quick walk through the garden this morning by myself.  It was cool, sunny, a little wet…the birds were singing and the tulips were up…I was happy to be there!

tulips

view north

You can almost smell these lilacs, yes?

Lilacs

Just a Spring Morning

27 Friday Mar 2015

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It was a blue sky day here in Salem today…

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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…

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Garden on!

The Dirty Work…

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Bobbie Dolp…

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Molly O’Dea

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Jay Raney…

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Better than going to the gym!  (Thanks for the photos Woody…)

Spring in the House and Garden!!

07 Saturday Mar 2015

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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…

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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…

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This week they added forget-me-not and pansies to the tulips…”place holders” in the perennial beds for the time being…

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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…)

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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…

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The garden sparkles outside the windows…calling us back out…

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Once outside we notice the terrific laminated garden plan that gardeners can use and mark on with erasable markers…

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a final look around…

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and we’re off…stay tuned for the coming story of recreating the front gate…Happy Gardening!!

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Spring is Near!

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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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…

FAIRY CIRCLE

hellebores

brick path to bench

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SNOWDROPS AND CYCLAMEN

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)

Part of archives

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…

tables

charis 2

The garden from inside looking out was beckoning,

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verbena

camellia

so off I went…into the sunny day.

 

 

The Winter Garden

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Yesterday was a bright sunny January day in the garden…

sunny day

Sharon Rose and I arrived for an Archive Committee meeting…

shadows

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…)

ecto parasite

front cell

archive committee

and then we walked around the garden a bit.  An Oregon garden on a January sunny day is full of spring…

white wall

ROSEHIPS

sunny day 2

camellias!

pink camellia white light pink

suet bird feeder

daphne

statue

 

We’re on the National Register!!

22 Monday Dec 2014

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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.  Garden

The nomination was written by board member and L&S archivist Ross Sutherland…with help from the SHPO office here in Salem…

Ross Sutherland

“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…

Lord in Spain 1927

Schryver in Spain 1927

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!

The Archives

10 Wednesday Dec 2014

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I popped in to Gaiety Hollow yesterday to see what the Archive committee was up to…

meeting

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…

Ruth's file

Ross Sutherland

I headed upstairs…

stair

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…

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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.

helvesfile cabinet

Being in the house is fun, but one MUST peek out at the views of the garden, even on a dreary Oregon day…

garden front

garden back

Deepwood Estates recently gifted L&S with Elizabeth Lord’s rocking chair…

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!