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One Last Open House

08 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Lord & Schryver Conservancy in annual flowers, Flower Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, House, Lord & Schryver, Open Garden, Summer

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I had a meeting at the house this morning so I snuck in the back gate a little early to see the garden…gorgeous even on an overcast and smoky morning…the last open house of the season is coming up this Sunday the 10th, $5 each for adults…545 Mission Street starting at 10:00 a.m….you won’t be sorry.  The zinnias are beautiful and so is everything else!  Come walk through for a summer memory.

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The Archives

10 Wednesday Dec 2014

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

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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…

Ruth's file

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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Fall Pruning

24 Monday Nov 2014

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

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My favorite correspondent, volunteer and arborist Woody Dukes, sent along these photos of the pruning going on at the Gaiety Hollow garden last Friday.  These photos are his.

Here are Jay and Anne Raney working on the “tall and straggly sarcococca under the dining room bay window…”

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with Molly O’Dea packing off the cuttings, here and after pruning the untidy laurel hedge on the alley…

Woody Dukes and Bobby Dolp worked on the osmanthus (on the right over the cart) west of the holly hedge.  They hand-pruned instead of the shearing that worked for the holly hedge.pruning 2

Woody says that last week Gretchen Carnaby worked to get the rose on the alley fence back in bounds…here’s what it looked like in the summer:

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and here when Gretchen finished…

Gretchen pruning

Stay tuned for the pruning of the camellias and rhododendrons as weather permits…

 

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Newspaper Mulch

19 Friday Sep 2014

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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…

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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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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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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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SNOW?

09 Monday Dec 2013

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

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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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