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Happy New Year!

02 Saturday Jan 2016

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brick pathways, camellias, Gaiety Hollow, garden, Garden in winter, Historic Gardens, Lord & Schryver, Lord & Schryver Conservancy, white oak

What better thing to do to start the new year than to take a stroll through the garden at Gaiety Hollow?  We’ve had a very mild winter so far, but the last few days, including today (brrr) have been COLD.

Some frost on the bricks, selectively…

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toward the allee

ice on the little pond…

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the frost on the grass…still there at 4:00 p.m. …

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the mistletoe in the big oak…

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and the plants that have been tricked into early bloom…

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everything is trying to grow…

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3600 people walked with us through this garden in 2015 on this blog, and we appreciate it.  We hope you’ll continue to join us in 2016 as things grow and change, we take on some new projects, and continue to work to make the garden at Gaiety Hollow thrive.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

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Help Needed!!

05 Monday May 2014

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Aegopodium, boxwood, brick pathways, Gaiety Hollow, garden, Historic Gardens, Lord & Schryver, Lord & Schryver Conservancy, weeding, white oak

Did you know that this beautiful garden is almost totally maintained with volunteer labor?  Every Friday morning from 9:00 to noon a small group of very hard-working volunteers does the “dirty work”…the weeding, the pruning, the sweeping and raking…and we need help.  I might just say that if you love to work in a beautiful garden, if you have skills or if you want to develop skills, if you like the idea of contributing to a fascinating historic resource in your community… consider joining this merry band.  Just showing up to take some photos I’ve learned a thing or two from this group. Think about it…WE NEED YOU.

So here’s what they were up to this week plus a report on some of the ongoing projects I’ve been reporting on.

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One project this week was work on the bricks which need cleaning and re-sanding…

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pruning…weeding…

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the big problem is the Aegopodium…it’s everywhere…

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The boxwood is beginning to regrow…!

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and Woody has built a very ingenious tool cupboard in his work area…

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Woody's cupboard

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The new Oak Tree has some leaves!

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See you Friday morning…PLEASE!!

 

 

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Camellias, Boxwood and the Renovation

15 Saturday Mar 2014

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boxwood, camellias, Gaiety Hollow, garden, garden design, Historic Gardens, house remodel, Lord & Schryver, Lord & Schryver Conservancy, pruning boxwood hedges, white oak

When I got to the garden today the crew was just finishing up the Friday morning work party…trying to rid the garden of “invasives”…a thankless task…

goodbye invasives

and I checked the boxwoods…the severe pruning has begun…

radical trim

but you can see from this view of the unpruned on the left, recently pruned on the right, that this will be the right thing to do…

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and then the camellias are all in bloom…

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…a quick check of the new tree…

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and then I headed inside where the renovations are almost complete.  The former living room has become the meeting room…

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the dining rooms views remain the best in the house…

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and upstairs, the room over the garage that was Lord and Schryver’s office will become the “library”/”archive” room…

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and the carpet has been removed from the stairs…

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A quick fond view…

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and I was off.  Next time: the removal of the front sidewalk…will the trees live??

 

 

 

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The End of the Day

01 Saturday Mar 2014

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The last photos have rolled in this evening showing the oak in situ, the magical machine that grinds stump by remote control, and the Townsend’s warbler doing a good imitation of a hummingbird.

After we left the intrepid team worked on and on (THANK YOU ADAM!!!) and the tree is in place.  It went like this…

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And earlier Gretchen was telling me of the miraculous stump grinder from Elwood that works remotely…the guy hardly even needs boots…

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It was a long day for our intrepid crew…a day that proved above all else that FOCUS and PERSEVERENCE are part of the L&S story.  Congratulations Gretchen, David, Woody, Joyce, ADAM….hooray!

and here are Woody’s photos of that Townsend’s warbler pretending to be a hummingbird.

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The Garden Comes Back to Life!

28 Friday Feb 2014

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camellias, Gaiety Hollow, garden, Garden in winter, Historic Gardens, Lord & Schryver, pruning, pruning boxwood hedges, pruning camellias, snow damage, tree planting, white oak

Gaiety Hollow is an old garden, as you know.  The lovely small hedges and decorative trees have become huge, so the problem of scale is now on the agenda…big time!  The problem becomes how to strike a balance between the original intent when the garden was planted, and the fact of maturity in an historic garden.  It took Darin 12 hours to prune the massively overgrown hedges at the front of the house.  He saved some sections for infill and when we got there today Gretchen Carnaby, David Lichter and Joyce Zook were hard at work…take a look…

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He didn’t prune the inside of the hedges…Gretchen said next year or the year after for that…when the street-side has filled out…

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but the BIG news for today was the arrival and planting of the new white oak to replace the fallen giant, the donation of John Miller.  Adam volunteered to work on digging the chips from the old oak out of the dirt left in the hole.  Any chips of the old tree will rob nitrogen from the new tree and retard healthy growth…

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David and Joyce jumped in to help, along with arborist Woody Dukes assessing the chip-to-dirt ratio… (it looked a little like a needle in a haystack…)

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COFFEE BREAK!

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(I DIDN’T get a shot of the Townsend’s Warbler with it’s nose in the camellia)

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Woody pointed out the snow damage in the camellias…

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and worse yet, the squirrel damage.  The squirrels are killing off the tops of various camellias by girdling the trees to eat the bark.  Look just above Woody’s finger and you can see where the bark has been gnawed off…

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just below the stripped trunk is a strong shoot in healthy bark, so in due course Woody will remove the now yellowed and dying top and the new shoot will fill in.

Gretchen pointed out to me one of the next projects…an espaliered camellia that is very overgrown, and is going to be massively pruned…here it is today, with Gretchen’s note that it has a strong interior structure…so stay tuned for the results…

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On our way out we checked the new little white oak, waiting to be planted…

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A lot of activity for the sunny and bright last day of February!

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January in the House and Garden

17 Friday Jan 2014

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Gaiety Hollow has been a beehive of activity of late.  Luckily today arborist Woody Dukes was on hand to explain the activities of last week when the stump of the old oak was cut down, the badly overgrown crab apple near the front door was removed, and also the overgrown katsura tree in one of the beds near the allee…take a look at the process of removing the huge stump…

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when the stump was down they began to saw it into pieces which was difficult due to all the metal inside…denoted by the black marks…

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several pieces still had the spaces where metal receptacles for 2×4’s were inserted in the trunk to support a bench…

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The crab apple and the katsura, flowering trees planted by Lord and Schryver in the 1930’s, had become hugely overgrown…the crab apple will be replaced with another smaller crab apple.  The original tree had been injured when it was small but new wood hard formed around the injury…

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Meanwhile inside the house work has begun.  First up was removing some paint with lead in it from the living room woodwork and repairing a leak that caused a wallpaper problem (the self-stripping wallpaper!)

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It almost feels like spring…(though Woody reminded me that the garden has a different camellia blooming almost every month!)  Stay tuned…

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