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Happy New Year!

28 Wednesday Dec 2016

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I was back in the garden today, finally.

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Winter in the garden means work of the chilliest sort.  Curator/garden manager Lindsey Kerr is working on the beds, and the workers from Autumn Leaf Landscaping are digging out the “Drying Garden”…

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As I was having a chat with Lindsey Kerr and she mentioned to me a couple of photos from the 1980’s of how that section of the garden used to look… and sent them along…

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We cordially invite you to join in the efforts of the Lord and Schryver Conservancy to not only retrieve this beautiful 20th century garden, but to help it survive on into the 21st century with new audiences and new activities…none of which can go forward without the help of our generous donors.  Thanking you in advance!

Note original grass, espaliered Camellia sasanqua.

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Fall is Here!

26 Monday Sep 2016

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After a too-long absence I stepped into the garden today and as usual was delighted by the fresh beauty awaiting me on this bright and sunny and warm fall Sunday.

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At the back gate I noted the wonderful copper covering of the curved wooden element on the gate frame…to keep the water out of the wood I presume, and before long it will be as green as the gate but TODAY the copper shone in the sun…

9-25-1The flowers I watched the volunteers plant in the spring are in their last real blaze…

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and I then headed to the grape arbor to see the progress the builders have made.  They are, bit by bit, replacing all the wooden elements without disturbing this key central bit of hardscape.  It has been fascinating to watch…

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They are even removing the comfy bench and lattice under the arbor (where I have spent a LOT of time looking and drawing)…here it is in spring

L&S winter 2013 arbor and boy

and today dismantled for repair and replacement…

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and here’s a vintage shot of the arbor…

Knight Library Home Garden Pergola looking east Lantern Slide

This week I hope to meet up with the builders and bring you more inside info…until then, watch out for those September spider webs!

 

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Spring is on the Way!

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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I headed to Gaiety Hollow yesterday to check progress on the reflecting pool…this work generously funded by an anonymous donor.  I always know when there’s a truck in the driveway SOMETHING is under way!

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It was the guys from Autumn Leaf Landscaping…

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the little reflecting pool used to look like this…

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and was never plumbed…maybe just filled with the garden hose.  Thanks to the donor the pool will be plumbed and have a pump that will pump recycled water keeping the pool fresh…and the process included this (i.e. electrical AND plumbing)…

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and in the meantime board members Ross Sutherland and David Lichter managed to locate a putto to go in the center of the pool when complete…

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Take a look at this vintage photo showing the original…

Knight Library Home Garden Ev Garden, Lantern Slide

After checking work progress I strolled the garden with Board President Bobbie Dolp who told me these pavers are coming up this spring to be replaced with grass, as it was originally…

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and the garden is still beautiful in in its shaggy late winter state…with lots blooming…

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And Bobbie mentioned the plan to replace the entire pergola, bit by bit, this coming summer…

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Additionally Dolp said…

“There is much that is glorious.  The camellias, viburnum and daphne are in full glory at the moment.  The flowering trees are just waiting for a few more days of warmth.

This week the reflecting pool is being restored.  There is even an appropriate putto to grace the scene.  The carpentry crew has continued to work on the perimeter fences.  We also have some grant money for new tools so some of those old gems can be replaced.

There is much to do; the grape on the pergola needs to be cut back along with some of the epimediums that got by the trimming last fall.  Roses need pruning.  And then of course there are those plants that love to challenge our determination.”

Friday volunteer work parties begin soon…consider coming to work in an amazing garden…

 

 

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October in the Garden…

07 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Fall is here, but the zinnias are still going strong!

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Last weekend we were hosting the meeting of the Pacific Northwest regional affiliates with the national Garden Conservancy…a chance for them to take a road trip and see what is really happening in our garden.  It’s always fun to welcome new people to Gaiety Hollow and its delights, but in preparation for the Saturday workshop, the Friday crew was doing a little seasonal pruning and hedge-trimming:

on the lawn

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Shirley’s clippers looked light-weight and sharp…

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the familiar garden views still delight…

view through arbor with Jay tools tidying up

and the next project up will be re-plumbing the fountain and getting it in working order…

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Correspondent Woody Dukes sent along this vintage photo of the urn when it was in the scroll garden at Deepwood…and then a photo of the urn in it’s new location…

Note ivy cut-out in terrace.

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Now we’re just waiting for some fall rain!

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The First Open Garden (and the new fence)!

10 Monday Aug 2015

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In case you missed the first open garden event today, you still have two more chances.  Thinking of doing the “High Street Hustle” on August 15?  The garden will be open that day from 7:30 to 10:00 a.m.   Sunday, September 13th the garden will be open again from 2-5 p.m….so if you went today you might want to come back as the season begins to change.  (As one who has been in the garden in every season, I  know for sure it is always fascinating and always beautiful.)

Here’s what it looked like today:  Board member Susan Miller greeted people at the gate with information on the garden…

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The day was perfect, warm and sunny, cool in the shade…perfect for strolling and straw hats…

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and chatting…

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Board members were scattered around the garden to give helpful information, and they had set up fantastic vintage photos of the garden so you could juxtapose what had been, what is, and what will be again…

white wall 8-8-015These two plants by the front door are gone, but plans are to replant…

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The west side fountain garden…and the allee north and south

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the grape arbor…

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and the parterres…

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this year filled with zinnias…

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and the new fence…

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replacement fence 2015

The very beautiful “hardscape” in this garden is, of course, wooden.  Things decay over time…

rotten posts of garden seat

but luckily for Gaiety Hollow there is a crew of talented and dedicated volunteers who are willing and able to replicate these benches and fences…Woody Dukes rebuilt the bench last year, and Christopher Hackett and his crew of Tom McMullen and Jack Fisher rebuilt the fence this summer…with Don Roberts standing by to paint the items as cut and before being assembled…touch up still required.  HOURS of work and planning…for love of the garden.  Thank you so much.

So…mark your calendar and make a point of taking a walk through this peaceful place right in the heart of Salem.  We are so lucky here in Salem to have this “garden trifecta” within a half mile…Bush Gardens, Deepwood Gardens and Gaiety Hollow…maybe a visit to all three is in your near future??

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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1952…(the garden was 20 years old)

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and the tulips…

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See you next week!

 

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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…

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“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…

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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!

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THANKFUL…

26 Wednesday Nov 2014

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At Gaiety Hollow we are so very thankful for all the volunteers and donors who have given so generously this year with time and financial support to bring this garden to its full glory.  The journey is full of fun, excitement, with only occasional gnarly details (aegopodium for instance…)

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We hope you’ll continue to stay with us as the garden year continues!!!!

Here’s a vintage view looking north, when the old oak still stood…Happy Thanksgiving!

Home Garden - Evergreen Garden looking north (DS)

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House and Garden Tour

19 Thursday Dec 2013

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Gaiety Hollow is right across the street from another Salem historic house and property…the home of Asahel Bush II, a beautiful Victorian house museum built as the Bush family home in 1877-78, and lived in by family for 75 years.  The house was once an estate in the center of a working farm, but is now a city park with walking paths, an art center, an historic greenhouse.  Here’s a vintage photo of the house…

vintage Bush House

In the 1930’s and 40’s Lord and Schryver planted many crab apple trees on the edge of the Bush family farm, with Sally Bush’s blessing.  As the property was right across Mission Street, Lord & Schryver could observe the growth patterns and hardiness of the various sample trees, which helped them in choosing the right tree for the right client garden.  These days the Bush house is a museum, housing much of the Bush family material, furnishing, photos, etc.  As part of the volunteer structure that supports the museum, there is a committee that oversees restoration efforts, acquisitions, etc.  Tuesday they came across the street to take a tour of Gaiety Hollow…both house and garden.  They were welcomed by Bobbie Dolp, president of the L&S Conservancy, and garden designer, Lord and Schryver historian and plantswoman Gretchen Carnaby.  Bobbie is the woman in the red coat (so we could keep track of her)…

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It was a cold and damp Oregon day, but a very good time to visit the garden as the garden structure…”the bones” if you will…are apparent.  And here Gretchen Carnaby points out a crab apple tree by the front door which will be receiving a heavy pruning this winter…

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Then we took a look at the “allee” planted with broad leaf evergreens so it has both a distinct Spring and winter look.  At the far end, from the planning of the garden until 2011, there was a beautiful 300 year old oak tree…

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a tree that has been sadly lost…

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…but that is really the essence of any garden, perhaps the lesson that gardens teach us…individual plants die and then we make a plan taking into consideration the new set of conditions.

Here’s a vintage photo of the flower gardens in their hey-day…

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and the blank slate the Conservancy has to recreate the gardens as designed (the planting plans exist)…

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We moved into the house…where we got an over-view of the house construction (Architect Clarence Smith, date: 1932) and we were reminded how masterful the garden design was as there is a beautiful aspect from every window…

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We also talked a bit about the boxwoods…original plants to the garden and now VERY overgrown.  They will be heavily pruned this spring, and to get ready for that “windows” were made in the tops of some of the hedges to encourage light into the dark interiors of the plants…

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the ribbon boxwoods will probably lose a full foot in the pruning…

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we’ll keep you posted.

In the meantime, we wish you a very happy holiday from the Lord and Schryver Conservancy.  Consider including the Conservancy in your year-end donations so this good work can go on.

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The Garden Bench

06 Friday Dec 2013

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Gretchen reminded me that the vintage image of the garden from the house needed to be “flipped”, and when I made that correction I got looking at the image…here is a larger version…

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and here’s that same view from the second floor of the house this past year…

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and the garden seat this summer…

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and again this fall…

bench this fall

and here are Irene and Jon using this lovely spot as a “photo op”…

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and I suspect this isn’t the first time.  Wouldn’t it be fun to find some other photos in this same spot?

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