The garden, considered.

Design, planting, and seasonal care from a gardener trained at the Rhode Island School of Design and raised on a Danish dairy farm where the garden was a way of life.

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A brief introduction.

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Kirsten West, a native of Denmark, was born and raised on a dairy farm on the island of Fyn — where farming, fishing, hygge, and tending the garden were ordinary parts of an ordinary day. She learned to look closely from her mother Marie, an expert knitter, sewer, embroiderer, and bobbin lacemaker.

She later studied Botanical Illustration, Drawing, and Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Now living on Cape Cod, she brings four decades of attention to gardens across the Mid, Lower, and Outer Cape.

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What she tends.

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Garden Design

Site walks, planting plans, sketches drawn by hand.

Planting & Installation

From bare bed to mature composition.

Seasonal Maintenance

Spring opening, summer care, fall closeout, winter prep.

Pruning

Roses, hydrangeas, fruit trees, ornamental shrubs — done at the right time, in the right way.

Organic Spray Protocols

Tailored programs for roses, hydrangeas, and fruit trees.

Kitchen Gardens & Berry Patches

Designed for harvest and beauty in equal measure.

Renovation & Restoration

Bringing overgrown gardens carefully back to themselves.

Consultation & Coaching

A single visit, a sketched plan, a way forward.

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Selected gardens.

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Nimble Hill

Nimble Hill

Yarmouth Port · 2026
Rose & Orchard Restoration

Rose & Orchard Restoration

Sandwich · 2024

A Formal Garden

Cape Cod · 2026
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Notes from the Garden.

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April 2026

On Pruning Roses in Late Spring

March 2026

The First Walk of the Year

February 2026

Why I Plant My Hydrangeas in Spring

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Now Welcoming Spring 2026.

For new gardens, restorations, and seasonal care across the Mid, Lower, and Outer Cape.

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