by Lord & Schryver Conservancy | Apr 9, 2019 | Bulbs, Drying Garden, Flower Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Lord & Schryver
We are so fortunate that Edith and Elizabeth kept amazing records of the Bulb Plantings they did at Gaiety Hollow. This is the layout of the 1935 planting plan, and while many of those old varieties are no longer available, we do have the ability to make...
by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager | Aug 1, 2017 | annual flowers, Drying Garden, Flower Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver, Open Garden, Summer
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced temperatures over 102 degrees. It’s not something I had on my “bucket list”. The Gaiety Hollow gardens seem to be taking it well, thanks to drip irrigation and some early morning sprinklers in the...
by Lord & Schryver Conservancy | Mar 18, 2017 | Drying Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, House, Lord & Schryver, Spring, spring annuals
I was in the garden today…dodging raindrops on the way into a meeting…and I reflected on how beautiful this garden is…even on the very dreariest of wet spring days… I noted some boxwood trimming had begun… the pergola construction was...
by Lord & Schryver Conservancy | Jan 23, 2017 | Driveway, Drying Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver
Probably not, but today, in this part of the world, it was sunny and 46 degrees and it felt so spring-like I thought that Gaiety Hollow might be the place to go. I wanted to see how the sod had survived in the new garden “room” and what progress had been...
by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager | Jan 3, 2017 | Drying Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, Lord & Schryver, Restoration
Written by Lindsey Kerr, Curator/Garden Manager Welcome to 2017! It’s a cold January morning–10 degrees below normal for Salem–but we are excited about all the changes to come to Gaiety Hollow in 2017. To kick off the new year, I arrived at work...