08.01.10

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.

By Brittany Lyte

07.01.10

Four designers discuss the best materials for creating that wonderful complement to Vineyard living – along with ideas for building your own.

By Anne McCarthy Strauss

04.01.10

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.

By Justin Ahren

04.01.10

After creating a neighborhood home on Lagoon Pond, new Vineyard homeowners found the Island lifestyle enveloped both them and their children.

By Linda Black

03.30.10

Professional gardener Peggy Schwier addresses the challenges of designing a property responsibly within the Vineyard landscape.

By Peggy Schwier

04.01.10

What happens when big dreams meet conservation commission realities.

By Jim Miller

04.01.10

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.

By Lorraine St. Pierre

04.01.10

“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.

By Susan Catling

04.01.10

“Even trees do not die without a groan.” – Henry David Thoreau.

By Karla Araujo

04.01.10

A West Tisbury couple rebounds and rebuilds after fire destroys their retirement home.

By Anne McCarthy Strauss

10.01.09

Four different settings show this architectural interface between the wide, grubby world and the civility of the home.

By Shelley Christiansen

10.01.09

A couple heading toward retirement nestles into a renovated home on the Lagoon in Oak Bluffs.

By Susan Catling

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