Over some twenty years, this Chilmark property has offered up considerable creative opportunities in its yard and gardens.
Laura D. Roosevelt
Overflowing with colorful blooms, window boxes dress up many Island homes and businesses in the spring and summer, but with a little extra effort, you can have eye-catching displays through fall and winter too. We asked four State Road garden centers for some window box ideas for all four seasons.
Susan Catling
Rampaging foxtail grass staves off one homeowner’s attempts to halt its advance in her garden.
Margaret Knight
Dorothy Chaffee’s Edgartown house and garden are a celebration of a life well lived with her late husband, Henry. The homes they shared together are depicted in a hand-painted dining room mural, and she continues his gardening legacy in a charming backyard landscape.
Brittany Lyte
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.
Justin Ahren
Professional gardener Peggy Schwier addresses the challenges of designing a property responsibly within the Vineyard landscape.
Peggy Schwier
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.
Lorraine St. Pierre
“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.
Susan Catling
