by Lord & Schryver Conservancy | Dec 18, 2019 | Deepwood, Lord & Schryver, Uncategorized
While most gardeners have put garden to bed for the winter and are enjoying the crisp, frosty mornings of the Holiday season, the Lord and Schryver Conservancy has been busy with several construction projects. One is the much anticipated second phase of the Deepwood...
by Lord & Schryver Conservancy | Sep 5, 2019 | book club, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, gardening, Lord & Schryver
As the weather starts to cool and the days shorten, we look forward to reconvening our Horticulture Book Club…and invite you to join us! Our book club is a casual, yet serious reading group driven by the interests of our members. We read general interest horticulture...
by Lord & Schryver Conservancy | Apr 16, 2019 | Flower Garden, Gaiety Hollow, Garden, gardening, Lord & Schryver, Uncategorized
May 5th, 1942. It was a Tuesday. On that day in History, the US began rationing sugar during World War II. In Tremont, Mississippi, Tammy Wynette was born. She would go on to record some great hits with “the Possum” George Jones and become known as the...
by Lord & Schryver Conservancy | Apr 11, 2019 | Deepwood, Lord & Schryver, Uncategorized
Thursdays are Deepwood days and some fun projects are underway! Besides the usual planting of the teahouse garden, the great room has had some new flower additions this spring. We also replaced a historic Malus ‘Firebird’ Crabapple in the Scroll...
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 | Jan 25, 2018 | Gaiety Hollow, Lord & Schryver, Restoration
Yesterday, I made a trip down to the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon. Lord & Schryver’s business papers, photographs, and other miscellaneous items, are stored in the Special Collections. Over the years, our...