by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager | Jan 10, 2018 | brick paths, Flower Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, gardening, landscape architecture, Lord & Schryver, Restoration, Uncategorized, Vintage Photos, winter
After a two week break and a trip back to the frozen tundra of Michigan, I am back at Gaiety Hollow and Deepwood. Earlier this week, contractors finished building the pedestal at the center of the Parterre Garden at Gaiety Hollow. It is beautiful! We don’t know...
by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager | Dec 12, 2017 | brick paths, Flower Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, gardening, landscape architecture, Lord & Schryver, Restoration, Uncategorized, winter
It has been more than a month since I last posted about our brick walk restoration project. They are not finished, but we hope to have them completed by the end of this week. I should note that we have concentrated our efforts on the paths in and around the Parterre...
by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager | Nov 27, 2017 | Gaiety Hollow, Garden, gardening
Last week, I asked What might be called “the scourge of Gaiety Hollow”? It was less than 12 hours before someone guessed correctly: Aegopodium podagraria Also known as ground elder, bishop’s weed, gout weed, snow-on-the-mountain, English masterwort, and...
by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager | Nov 21, 2017 | Deepwood, Gaiety Hollow, gardening, Uncategorized
Last week, I left you all with a cliff-hanger. What is this weed that I loath? This is Campanula rapunculoides aka creeping bellflower or rampion bellflower. It is native to Europe and Eurasia and was brought here as an ornamental garden plant. However, it quickly...
by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager | Nov 15, 2017 | Gaiety Hollow, Garden, gardening, Uncategorized
Right now is the perfect time to tackle some of our most noxious garden weeds. At Gaiety Hollow, our problem weeds have underground energy storage systems that require them to be dug out. Fall is a great time to remove these weeds for three reasons: After the annuals...
by Lord & Schryver Curator/Garden Manager | Oct 30, 2017 | brick paths, Flower Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, landscape architecture, Lord & Schryver, Restoration, Uncategorized
The brick walk project is well underway! We are so thrilled to see the paths coming back together. The Autumn Leaf crew has been onsite for the past week and will continue work this week. Before work commenced, I took over ninety photographs of the paths. Julian,...