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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…

pruning

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…

pruning 2

There were tools everywhere…

tools 1 tools 2 tools 3

evidence of pruning…

pruning 3

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…

gate space

The allee and the flowering shrubs were in bloom…

Allee from lawn

Allee 3

Allee 2

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”…

coffee groupvolunteers having coffee

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…

bench 3

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…

blooming

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…

GH BLUE SKY

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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DHG PrimGH BL;OSSOMS

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…

GH1

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…)

Compost!

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…

two shovels

wheelbarrow

compost 2

and though yesterday it looked like this…

Tuesday

by 10:30…Shirley and the rest had it looking pretty tidy…

bedsbe3d

Shirley

…with a little time for a chat about aegopodium podagraria…!

hands

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,

VERBENA 2

verbena

camellia

so off I went…into the sunny day.

 

 

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…

axis 1

axis 2

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

path

drip line

drip line 2

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

lawn 1lawn 2

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!

camellia 1

camellia 2

SPRINKLERS!!!

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

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Hooray…the two week process of installing new sprinklers and a drip system for the beds began this week, executed by Kevin Schindler’s Autumn Leaf Landscaping.  We stopped by today to check the progress…the pvc pipe is ready…

PVC 2

the trench in the allee has been dug (this trench incidentally will carry 8-9 pipes each of which will feed various parts of the system)

the trench

and in the digging they found an old piece of iron pipe from a much earlier system…

the old pipe

the lines are drawn indicating pipelines, and the white flags denote sprinkler heads for the grassy areas…

white lines 2

sprinkler heads

white lines 1

and here’s the coiled drip hose…

GH pvc

drip hose

Stay tuned for a progress report, and in the meantime, check out the boxwoods!!

Here’s the “before”, on the day they were trimmed…

boxwood 1

and today…gardens do continually amaze us 🙂

boxwoon update

Newspaper Mulch

19 Friday Sep 2014

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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.