Bluebird Farm -Crescent Ok - Habitation Of Phil As Well As Frances Macy
When Phil too Frances Macy were friends too thus sweethearts at Crescent OK high school, they never could cause got imagined that they would last the ones who would restore the solid unit of measurement the world too farmhouse inwards their retirement. The solid was already 20-years quondam when Phil’s ancestors bought it over 100 years ago. The master copy floors of the 800 square-foot dwelling cause got been restored too many master copy features cause got been preserved.
“My woman parent was born inwards this house,” said Phil. “And, she was able to celebrate her 100th birthday inwards it iii years earlier her expiry inwards 1959.”
The Macys lived inwards many locations around the the world too when they retired inwards 1997 they moved from St. Louis to Edmond. Restoration at the solid unit of measurement farm too edifice the landscape began inwards 2000.
“When nosotros started, at that spot were no trees too no gardens,” said Frances. “I wanted to practise a history of pioneer women on the the world thus I started past times planting everything the local people gave us.”
Today, the gardens are a reflection of 15-years of planting, tending too weeding what was a 320-acre slice of cardinal OK prairie.
“We started making the gardens amongst iii peonies from my mom’s garden,” said Frances. “All this became possible when nosotros dug the minute good to cause got plenty water-pressure to irrigate 5-acres.”
Plants shared past times friends too solid unit of measurement include the Larkspur from her mother’s vecino inwards Guthrie, blood-red Yarrow from a friend inwards Cushing, too a sideslip of White Meidiland Rose from a friend.
When a friend of the Macy’s decided to downsize her tree plant nursery she invited them to selection out whatever they could use. The side past times side week, the friend arrived amongst a truckload of trees that lay out edifice Bluebird Farm into what at i time is a beautifully wooded too shaded lot.
In the forepart yard, manful soul persimmon trees cause got taken hold, reproducing shade trees that allow Sun to autumn on the the world below.
At the dorsum of the house, the 120-year-old well-house too tempest shelter cause got been surrounded amongst garden, an arbor, too a shaded seating area. The stone path betwixt the solid too the smoke solid was lay past times Phil’s grandfather, Alfred Murry.
In add-on to the beds that are stuffed amongst Lamb’s Ears, Joe Pye Weed, Phlox Victoria, Knockout Roses, pinkish flowering Weigela shrubs, Nepeta Walker’s Low, canna lily, hosta, daylily, Sedum Autumn Joy, Crape Myrtles, too other perennials, Frances plants hundreds of seeds every year.
When the restoration of the master copy dwelling was completed, the Macys built a minute solid side past times side door where the entire solid unit of measurement tin rest when they come upward to visit.
Between the forepart gardens that environment the houses too the vegetable beds past times the barn, at that spot is a creekside gully planted amongst redbud too dogwood trees.
The fruit trees too vegetable garden are Phil’s projects. He grows root vegetables such every bit potatoes too onions every bit good every bit greenish beans too tomatoes. But, at that spot is likewise dill to feed butterfly caterpillars. At the forepart corner of the vegetable bed, planted amongst herbs, is the launder tub that belonged to Frances’ mother. The Macys cause got opened their gardens for events over the years. One twelvemonth the fundraiser, “A Walk inwards Three Country Gardens”, raised coin for the Frontier Museum inwards Crescent. They likewise opened upward the garden to groups of painters who come upward to pass the twenty-four hours doing portraits of the flowers too the dozens of bluish birds that alive on the property.