In the midst of winter some of us dream big garden dreams. And we start out with the best of intentions, we really do. Come July, though, we might just be overwhelmed by the gardening equivalent of eyes-being-bigger-than-stomachs, and a mess of weeds and tangled flowers. What’s a desperate gardener to do?
By Laura D. Roosevelt
Putting down roots in a new place can be as hard for plants as for the humans who nurture them.
By Sally Bennett
The architects of the new Oak Bluffs library at work, and at home, in the woods of Harthaven.
By Holly Nadler
The French game of pétanque (or boules) was brought to the Vineyard in the early 1960s by Yvette and Max Eastman.
By Ellinor Mitchell
In Edgartown, a hotel for dogs and their human companions.
By Margaret Knight
One gigantic zucchini, and perfect pumpkins, much larger than your head.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
What makes a good kitchen? Is it efficiency? The right tools? Size? A beautiful space? A great view? There are probably as many versions of “good kitchen” as there are good Island cooks. Here are four of them and the places where they work their magic.
By Catherine Walthers
On-Island hydrangeas: “Pink and Pretty is beautiful,” says Don Brown of Vineyard Gardens in West Tisbury, “but I’d have to say Nikko Blue is my favorite. There are just so few things that bloom that true blue in the garden.”
Rhonda and Erik Albert and their children Iris and Miles live in an old sixteen-room house in Oak Bluffs. Last year they had nearly a thousand summer guests, and this year they’d like to have more.
By Margaret Knight
The Ark is built on one of the lowest spots in the Camp Ground of Oak Bluffs. When it rains, the whole backyard floods and with all that water around it, the house resembles the stern of Noah’s Ark, says owner Marina Firestone.
By Mary-Jean Miner
Some Ideas from Our Resident Gardener and a Few of Her Gardener Friends.
By Karen Huff
