Lots is going on in the person-manipulated natural world today in Salem. First a visit to Gaiety Hollow, the Lord and Schryver home garden, where a crew of volunteers were putting down newspaper mulch in an effort to tame the hideous aegopodium…a nasty weed. on to Martha’s where Big Trees Today (I love them, they […]
Today in the paper there was an article about the loss of the amazingly beautiful old oak tree in the Lord and Schryver home garden. One arborist thinks the tree might have been over four hundred years old, growing long before this area was settled…probably part of the oak groves that covered the Willamette Valley. […]
On The Way 