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Evening in the Garden

19 Wednesday Jul 2017

Posted by Lord & Schryver Conservancy in Deepwood, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, House, landscape architecture, Lord & Schryver, Open Garden, Summer, Tours

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brick pathways, Deepwood Gardens, Gaiety Hollow, garden, Garden Tours, Historic Gardens, Historic House and Garden, Lord & Schryver, Oregon, women landscape architects

We took a twilight tour of the gardens at Gaiety Hollow this evening and as usual found the garden beautiful and restorative.

If you want to ease into the Salem Art Fair this weekend let me suggest the Lord and Schryver tours which are Saturday the 22nd at 9:00 at Deepwood Museum & Gardens and at Gaiety Hollow beginning at 10:30.  The cost is $5 for those 16 and up.

So why do this?  Why go visit gardens planted in the 1930’s by people long gone?  Well in Garden Curator Lindsey Kerr’s absence I’ll suggest a few reasons.

These women, Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, lived here in Salem.  They designed cutting-edge gardens of great beauty for Salemites and for others across the Northwest.  They were rigorous, talented and interesting, and if you live in Salem they are a part of your history!  Come see the garden and learn their story, your back-story.

Walk through these garden gates and step back in time.  For the most part people don’t design or maintain gardens like this anymore. We are now into efficient, low water, low maintenance gardens. Here is a chance to see a house and garden designed and now maintained from another world altogether…and it is a captivating garden and a captivating world.

Come and see plant varieties and combinations that are “old fashioned” and yet totally up to date. Giant white hydrangeas, Nicotiana alata spilling out of beds, delphinium, grapes…ideas abound in this historic garden for modern gardeners.

Escape.  And this garden has been providing a breathing space for me and many others for years…always delightful, ALWAYS ALIVE, always a balm.

See you Saturday!

 

 

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Stormy Weekend

15 Saturday Oct 2016

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

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We’re in the middle of stormy weekend here…we left the fireside for a coffee and I did a quick tour of the garden.

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Interestingly, aside from the grape leaves on the arbor, the fall color visible is mostly from trees in the neighboring yards…Gaiety Hollow is still green, but fading.

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Arbor progress is being made…in spite of less than ideal conditions…

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and a few tiny bits of color have floated into the pool…

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Stay dry out there!!

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November News…

18 Wednesday Nov 2015

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

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boxwood, Gaiety Hollow, garden, garden design, Garden in winter, Historic Gardens, Historic House and Garden, Lord & Schryver, pruning, pruning boxwood hedges

We entered the garden through the back gate today, late in the afternoon, and there was a meeting going on so the lights were all on and the house looked inviting…

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A walk through Gaiety Hollow this blustery afternoon revealed that MUCH work has been done in my absence…volunteers have finished trimming all the boxwood and it looks very good, even on a dark, wet and dreary day…

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Elwood’s Tree Service has done some professional trimming (best done by somebody nimble on the top of a ladder)-26

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and the holly hedge is amazing…-27

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There has been lots of planting…two white lilacs…

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a crab apple…

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and a beautifully shaped Japanese maple near the house…

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a small holly near the back porch…

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always more to do though…foundation plantings…

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and then the wear and tear of time and weather always brings new projects…

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but in spite of the wind and rain, this garden always makes me happy…and now beginning to feel festive…!

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The Winter Garden

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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

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camellias, daphne, ecto-parasite, Gaiety Hollow, Historic House and Garden, Lord & Schryver, Oregon Winter Garden

Yesterday was a bright sunny January day in the garden…

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Sharon Rose and I arrived for an Archive Committee meeting…

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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…)

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

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ROSEHIPS

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camellias!

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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…

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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…

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Ross Sutherland

I headed upstairs…

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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.

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

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

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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!

 

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