When Cygi and Gregory Grammer bought their 1890s home in picturesque Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, 14 years ago, they were drawn to the inlet with 365 islands by their love of the sea. Little did they know how much influence the strong winds whipping off the water, not to mention the resident deer, would have on the design of their dream garden.
The first-time gardeners were ready to sink their teeth into a horticultural project while also renovating their wood-clad home, built in classic Nova Scotia style with a protruding front dormer (known as a “Lunenburg bump”). “I wanted a garden in the style of the grand estates I had seen on the Maine seacoast, grand but not snooty,” says Gregory Grammer, an interior decorator. He also wanted to preserve the turn-of-the-century look of the house and the garden.
**Mature black locusts and apple trees frame water views and the Grammers’ restored 1890s house (next slide) in their “grand but not snooty” 2.5-acre garden in Mahone Bay, NS.**
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