Seasons of Love
With the help of Maria Hickey and Associates Landscapes, the blank canvas at Kerry Kennedy’s new home has been transformed into a place for friends and family to gather and share the beauty of a creatively inspired space. There are very few examples epitomizing everything…
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Three Centuries of Flowering
From the 1600s until today, this ancient Orleans ‘hundred-acre wood’ has flourished in hands that cherish the land with patience and love. Traveling down the long, winding drive shaded with towering Norway spruce trees to Nancy and Elliot Johnson’s Orleans home, you feel as though…
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A Green Desire
Chad and Bonnie Frost create an old-world landscape, which serves as a lush, nurturing backdrop for their modern romance. Just over five years ago, Bonnie Whitney was working for Coldwater Creek, the clothing retailer, as a designer. She had grown up in Duxbury, been married,…
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Zen and the Art of Landscape
With almost four decades of experience under his feet, Paul Miskovsky has coaxed the natural world into a state of enlightenment. After almost 40 years of working in the dirt, Paul Miskovsky, founder and owner of Miskovsky Landscaping in Falmouth, still exudes a boyish enthusiasm…
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A Heavenly Assumption
Local green thumbs join forces to restore a devotional garden. In a long, narrow garden perched alongside Eel Pond in Woods Hole, a gentle breeze tickles some carefully tended Hosta plants and blooming lady slippers. It is hard to imagine that only a year ago…
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Monet in Brewster
Garden enthusiast Laura McLellan paints a masterpiece with plants. The story goes that Monet, already experiencing commercial success as a painter, gazed from the window of a stopped train at the charming French village of Giverney and decided to make it his home. He invested…
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Where Beauty Abides
The pandemic plants the seeds for Terra Coastal, a flourishing new floral design business for customized Cape home décor. Beth Johnson is a true flower lover. The gardens surrounding her home in Cotuit’s picturesque sea captain’s village fill in the springtime with peonies, daffodils, and…
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Building Business: Harvest Moon Farms
Dancin’ in the Light The first season at West Barnstable’s Harvest Moon Farms yields a bounty of certified organic produce for online customers. In the pantheon of rock-n-roll deities, Neil Young is the god of farming and farmers. Not only did he co-found, along with…
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Meryl Gartside of Blue Lobster Flower Farm
What made you want to get into this business? It’s definitely a passion. When I retired from my real job, I had the energy and passion to explore this opportunity. I had specialized in growing perennial flowers and designing perennial gardens. I worked in a…
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Special Spaces: Armstrong-Kelley Park
New Feet Within Our Garden Go The Cape Cod Horticultural Society begins to merge with The Trustees of Reservations renewing Armstrong-Kelley Park. The Armstrong–Kelley Park in Osterville is being adopted. In the spring of 2020, the Cape Cod Horticultural Society (CCHS), who have lovingly tended…
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