The Gaiety Hill garden of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver,

here in Salem, Oregon,  is temporarily safe!  A generous donation has given the Lord and Schryver Conservancy five years to raise the money for the purchase of the property.  As part of the ongoing fund-raising project this blog will give you news of the garden and…ALWAYS…images both current and historic.

For the historic narrative see the Lord and Schryver Conservancy website.  Here on the Gaiety Hollow blog, you’ll find pictures of the house and garden and images of progress in the garden restoration and the on-going support efforts.

So let’s start with yesterday, a late and sunny November day…not ANY garden’s Best moment…but this garden looks beautiful any season.  The grapes have been trimmed and the arbor tidied

a different look from the summer grape arbor I sat under this past summer…

Lord and Schryver were particularly interesting to us because they really had “IT ALL”.  They understood sight lines…

and here’s an actual L&S photo of the view through the arbor…

one I took last summer…

and the way it looked yesterday…

Of course gardens are all about plants, but Lord and Schryver also understood fences

gates

and the all-important relationship between inside and outside that makes their gardens so special…