When buying or replacing windows, which saves more money over the long term: single-glazed with storm windows or double-glazed?

Norman Lobb, E.C. Cottle Inc.,Lambert’s Cove

Tom Dresser

A gardener observes as nature achieves a sense of balance in a Chappaquiddick greenhouse.

Margarent Knight

Each daylily blossom lasts only a day. But though it’s beauty is fleeting, it is useful year-round. Every part of it, except for its roots, can be eaten.

Laura D. Roosevelt

When you walk out to our backyard, the first thing you’ll notice is that CDs are hanging from the branches of many of our bushes. It’s not because we want our forsythias to look like gypsies; it’s to scare away the damn deer.

Geoff Currier

My strategy is to plant a little more than I need of everything, do my imperfect best at pest control, then resign myself to sharing some of my bounty with the critters and insects.

Laura D. Roosevelt

Daffodils are the year-round Vineyarder’s special pleasure, along with pinkletinks and parking spots in Edgartown.

Paul Schneider

A renowned expert on indigenous flora on Martha’s Vineyard, Carlos Montoya has been interested in native plants since he began landscaping here some twenty years ago.

Laura D. Roosevelt

A rose is not just a rose, and other surprises.

Jeanne Campbell

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