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Nantucket, MA

 It's something of a mystery why flowering plants do so well on this island exposed on all sides to wild storms and salt spray. The secret may lie in the age of many of the houses and gardens on Nantucket, which have had plenty of time to establish themselves since the mid-nineteenth century's heyday of whaling.

Most of us, in this restless America of a new century, have gardens that show more promise than performance, and we go to longer-established places like Natucket to have our batteries recharged.