A Marblehead Massachusetts Gem by the Sea

By Kim Charles

Amy Hourihan ’s beautiful seaboard garden side by side to historic Fort Sewall , Marblehead , MA .

" Our holding consists of a 1/2 acre walled G , with urine views , in the historical New England Greenwich Village of Marblehead . The home is an 1880 Colonial Revival .

When we bought this house seven years ago , there was very small besides hosta , twenty-four hour period lilies and lady ’s mantle flourishing , and there was no hardscaping or inviting places to seat alfresco . It had a Edgar Albert Guest bungalow that was box-shaped and unattractive . Besides adding several rounded brick terraces with granite collar , we also impart a small victorian greenhouse to the bungalow . A raised layer potager uses a corner of the thousand . The primary attracter is a hundred foundation cottage garden , along an sometime stone bulwark . In the fountain it is sate with drifts of tulips and narcissus , and in summertime , rosebush and clematis spill out of the drifts of digitalis , paeony and delphinium . Dahlias and phlox behave the previous summer show . An old Malus pumila tree , blueberries , elderberries , and strawberries bring home the bacon yield , in addition to the productive vegetable garden . The greenhouse stretch the season by a month in both natural spring and fall , and cold frames give birth overbold lettuce and greens year round . We start all our own veg and blossom under light in February before they indurate off in April and May in the greenhouse . Windowboxes on the bungalow are filled with colorful , homegrown yearly . water system barrels , made from sometime whisky gun barrel , maintain piss . We are geographical zone 6B. "

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