Nantucket is a treasure trove of tucked away, teeny tiny, lush and lovely secret gardens.

The combination of sun, sea mist, warm days and cool nights is the perfect climate for a gorgeous garden to grow.

The entire island, with their green garden thumbs, has perfected the fine art of wonderous windowboxes.  From The Pearl, a fabulous fine dining seafood restaurant…

To the pretty patio at Boarding House…

To South Wharf Gallery‘s cute as pie corner shop.

Each and every window is a dazzling display on the OUTSIDE (and of course, designed fabulously inside with goods and wares).

I could wander up and down each narrow lane for months on end, just soaking in the flora and fauna.

Main Street is always a hustle bustle of summer commerce, activity, and en plein air artistry.

Our friend Greg Hill, the owner of G.S. Hill Galleries on Straight Wharf, is always out and about in town, preserving the history of Nantucket as a turn of the century artist colony.

Container gardens are just as enchanting…

The outside of our favorite cozy restaurant, Company of the Cauldron, beckons you inside for a candlelight prixe fixe menu dinner that will change your life.

Next door, John Rugge is a favorite antique shop, with bountiful boxwood urns framing the doorway.

How could you resist falling down the Peter Beaton rabbit hole, and following the mad hatter topiary?

I dare say it is even more darling as you follow the twinkle lit topiary path back to the shop, with his world famous stripey shirts flitting in the summer breeze.

What an entrance, eh?

Gypsy has the MOST lavish, loungey front porch I have seen this side of a swanky South of France hotel terrace.

Follow the boxwood right up the steps, and inside each of these charming cottage gardens and boutiques.

Sail on over, and savor the fine art, craftsmanship and summer nautical couture Nantucket brings to the world.