Deer-Resistant Gardens
Four different plant combos can bring a variety of colors, textures, and looks to your yard, and you won’t have to worry so much about them getting nibbled by your neighbors.
A Sense of Belonging
After creating a neighborhood home on Lagoon Pond, new Vineyard homeowners found the Island lifestyle enveloped both them and their children.
Harmony on the Plains
Professional gardener Peggy Schwier addresses the challenges of designing a property responsibly within the Vineyard landscape.
Quality Over Quantity
What happens when big dreams meet conservation commission realities.
Dr. Seussland on Martha’s Vineyard
The whimsical home and studio of artist and furniture maker Richard Dunbrack
How it Works: Getting Rid of Skunk Smell
I came across this advice at an online discussion group for dealing with a pet that has been skunked: “Take several ounces of tomato juice…add vodka…drink.”
A Backyard Symphony
It was raining hard, with not a hint of a breeze. The air was hot and heavy, feeling tropical and clammy as it settled on my skin.
Emily Post, in Her Garden
“Dahlias really make me sick!” Could the etiquette author, known for her Edgartown garden of shoulder-high dahlias, really have written these words? Even Emily Post couldn’t make the Vineyard’s weather behave.
After the Fire
A West Tisbury couple rebounds and rebuilds after fire destroys their retirement home.
DAW: Make Over
Hammers bang and paint cans dangle;Ladders lean at every angle;Homes improve as decades pass…Which can’t be said for us, alas.
One Last Thing
One Last Thing: When a Shack is More Like a Château
It took a baffled outsider, my then new (now ex) husband, to open the family’s eyes to what we’d forever ignored: the rusted window locks, the soft spot on the porch deck, the pancake turner with the handle broken off, and so on.
Ask the experts
Ask the Experts: Growing Healthy Trees
“Even trees do not die without a groan.” – Henry David Thoreau.
From the Editor
From the Editor
I grew up in an old carriage house in an historic part of Marshfield. I remember as a child thinking back to what it must have been like with carriages in the rooms – like a car dealership with vehicles indoors.
