| Author/Contributor(s): | Henderson, Paula; Poole, Kathleen; Zimmerman, Marcella; Crane, Peter |
| Publisher: | Globe Pequot Publishing |
| Date: | 3/2/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Written by three members of the Nantucket Garden Club, Gardens of Nantucket celebrates the island’s impressive range of beautiful gardens. Expertly and passionately written and illustrated with over 300 magnificent photos, the book covers every type of garden found on the island:
- early colonial herb and “physic” gardens
- historic gardens that mimicked fashionable European styles
- the islanders’ famous love of hydrangeas and roses
- productive and conservation gardens
- sublime, modern wildscapes
The authors have documented the four-hundred-year history of how Nantucket gardens originated and proliferated, how gardeners have preserved the traditions of the past, while respecting new concerns surrounding sustainable gardening. Chapters are devoted to the elegant gardens in the town of Nantucket, the more informal gardens of the cottages in the charming village of ‘Sconset, and gardens that magically interact with the island’s stunning landscape.
Nantucket is a small island about 30 miles south and east of Cape Cod, with the wild Atlantic Ocean to the south and east and the calmer, shallower waters of Nantucket Sound to the north. Although only 105.3 square miles (14 miles long and 39; miles wide), the island has a remarkably varied landscape with beautiful, isolated beaches, wind-sculpted dunes, and lush wetlands along its extensive shoreline and moorland, cranberry bogs and freshwater ponds on its interior. Its proximity to the Gulf Stream gives the island a milder climate and a longer growing season. It is in this environment that Nantucket gardeners have succeeded in creating gardens of distinction. With the publication of Gardens of Nantucket, readers everywhere can be inspired by the island’s gardens, a rare opportunity not to be missed.