MARTHA'S VINEYARD GARDEN CLUB
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August: Nancy Kilson and Martin Klotz's Garden
My husband Martin and I purchased our home in West Tisbury in June 2012.  That first summer and fall, we planted a few Oriental lily bulbs and many daffodils and began dreaming.  The next season we started work on creating a better screen between our property and Indian Hill Road.  Soon we were planting many viburnums and evergreens, and pulling out lots of invasive Russian olives and bull briar.  Nancy planted many perennials above the stone wall in the backyard, where once there were only a few yellow coreopsis.
A year or two later we met Carly Look through a Polly Hill garden tour.  She guided us in our initial plantings of Hinoki chamaecyparis and  Cryptomeria japonica as we developed our first woodland and screening gardens.   Every fall we plant a few more trilliums in this area, which also holds many rhododendrons, calycanthus, hollies, anemones and hostas.  We edged part of our driveway with a row of redbud trees and Japanese maples.  Then we put in a bed where Nancy planted 15 or 20 peonies surrounded by lily bulbs.  Then came the rose garden.  Then the tree peony bed.  Then an improved front walk garden.  And the beginnings of a collection of daylilies from specialty growers Nancy found after joining the American Hemerocallis Society.  All of this is possible thanks to an 8 foot deer fence that Mitch and Ned Posin built for us a few years ago, after we found out about what happens to exposed rhododendrons over the winter.
In 2019 we again collaborated with Carly to create a second woodland garden out of what was once a mess of scrub, brush and bull briar in between our main and guest houses.  The old ‘muddle in the middle’ is now a beautiful shady expanse full of Hinokis, oak leaf hydrangeas, rhododendrons, aronia, hollies, multiple types of viburnums and other trees and shrubs, blooming sequentially throughout the spring and summer.  Delightful!
Most sections of the garden feature something to see in spring, summer and fall, and we get to be here for those seasons.   That has not stopped us from planting things that bloom in winter and early spring, with dreams of years to come!  Above, we have posted a few snapshots of our bearded iris collection, our peonies in bloom, and the colorful edges of our rose garden, all of which had gone by for this year when we made our late July 2020 video. 
We welcome visits from members of the Garden Club of Martha’s Vineyard!
  • WELCOME
  • 2025 Programs & Events
    • Plant Sale 2025
  • JOIN the Club, RENEW OR DONATE!
  • About Us
    • Club History >
      • 100 Years
      • Historical Archives
      • The OLD MILL Yesterday
      • The OLD MILL Today
      • Garden Club Seale
    • Who we are
    • Leadership
    • Committees
    • Newsletter Archives
    • Directions to the WAKEMAN CENTER
    • Directions to the OLD MILL
    • From OFF ISLAND - Getting to The Old Mill!
    • Bylaws (Aug. 2013)
    • Policies & Procedures (Jan. 2014)
  • Giving Back
    • Charitable Projects
    • Rose Styron Garden
    • Harbor Homes
    • Woodside Community Garden
    • Mytoi Gardens on Chappy!
    • Floral Arrangements for Hospice Soiree!
  • 2025 Event Wrap Ups
    • Blooming Art Wrap Up 2025
    • 2025 Educational Progamming Materials
    • Valentines Workshop 2025
  • Blooming Art
    • Blooming Art 2025
  • Looking Back on Events of 2024
    • Floral Design Creativity
    • Springtime Daffodil Walk 2024
    • Member Garden Walkabouts
    • 2024 Edgartown Garden Stroll
    • Centennial Garden Party
    • At the Ag Fair
    • Our 100th Birthday Party!
  • Resources
    • Gardening Resources 1 - Reference, Docs, Books, Websites, Apps and More!
    • Gardening ​Resources 2 - Virtual Presentations, Podcasts, More Websites & Garden Tours
    • Allied Organizations on MV
    • Regional Horticultural Organizations
  • Conservation
    • No Mow May!
    • Conservation Related Resources
  • Members Only
    • 2025 Calendar