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OUR STORY
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Perennial Gardens LLC has designed and installed award-winning window boxes and roof decks for Boston's finest homes for over 25 years. Our clients can be found from Back Bay to the surrounding suburbs and our work has been featured in numerous publications. So, needless to say, we know and love container gardening!
The beauty of nature and the act of gardening, offers comfort, peace, and a connection to our friends and family around us. As nature awakens, nothing brings more joy or peace to your soul than getting your hands dirty, seeing plants grow, flower, fruit, and harvest. Our city of Boston is home to the country’s oldest surviving Victory Garden, founded to boost morale and help feed our country during a traumatic and uncertain time. Partnering with Jennifer Nawada from This Old House, we have created a way to bring the organic garden safely to your doorstep. A victory garden of your own that provides a chance to tend to a garden and to reap organic food -- Boston's Victory Gardens. For the planters themselves, we've sourced red cedar planters, vintage cranberry boxes, and hand carved stone troughs. To reduce the spread of the virus at every step, we deliver and store the planters at our farm, letting them sit for 72 hours, before planting them full with veggies, herbs and flowers. Each planter is designed to be managed by one person only, designed with social distancing in mind. We then let the planters sit for another 72 hours before delivering them to your doorstep, following all safety protocols every step of the way. We love beautiful planters, and we know what plants need to thrive. Thanks to Ellen's obsession with NOFA and the Bio-Nutrient Food Association, we also understand how important nutrition is for our planet and our souls. We hope you enjoy these victory gardens we are offering. They have been made with love and the hope that they will provide connection and refuge and remind us of the beauty in nature -- and ultimately feed your soul. |
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OUR PARTNERS
PERENNIAL GARDENS, LLC
Our parent company, Perennial Gardens LLC, with owner and design principal Ellen Abdow, has designed and installed award-winning window boxes and roof decks for Boston's finest homes for over 25 years. Our clients can be found from Back Bay to the surrounding suburbs and our work has been featured in numerous publications. We know and love container gardening!
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JENNIFER NAWADA
As the lead landscaper for This Old House, Jenn knows a thing or two about plants! She's been in the landscaping industry since 2001, and has owned her own business, Nawada Landscape Design Inc., for over a decade. Passionate about plants, gardening, and dogs (a must!), we are so excited to be partnering with Jenn.
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KATIE WILCOCK
Those of you who know Perennial Gardens LLC have undoubtedly worked with Katie as project manager extraordinaire or know her as the face behind our popular Instagram account. Company secret, she's also the amazing photographer who's responsible for several of the pictures on this site.
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#teamworkmakesthedreamwork
Tom Mann, owner of TS Mann Lumber, builds one of our cedar planters. The lumberyard is family-owned, tenth generation, with the original saw mill establish in 1787!
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Seedlings growing at a 100 year old local farmer in Foxborough -- perfect for a Boston's Victory Gardens planter!
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OUR INGREDIENTS
Our ingredients for the perfect Victory Garden!
THE PLANTERS
Western red cedar from a 10th generation sawmill in Central Massachusetts, measuring 36"L x 12"W x 12"H
Vintage cranberry boxes from a newly retired bog in Eastham MA, measuring 18"L x 12"L x 12"H
Hand carved granite oval troughs too beautiful for words and wicked heavy! All vary in size, but generally are around 24"L x 10"W x 8"H
THE SOIL
THE SOIL: A custom blend of Canadian sphagnum peat moss, coconut coir, horticultural perlite, calcitic limestone, dolomite limestone, humax, and kelp meal
THE SPECIAL SAUCE
THE SPECIAL SAUCE: Hand crafted with love & hope that our community will experience joy and happiness in watching these plants grow!
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HISTORY
What exactly is a Victory Garden?
Victory gardens came about during World War I, with a resurgence in World War II, as an effort to not only bolster the country's food supply during uncertain times, but also to boost morale. People used every little bit of space they had -- from backyards to fire escapes -- to plant their gardens. Tending to a victory garden helped lift spirits and bring communities together. The movement became so popular during World War II that it's estimated that 20 million victory garden growers produced about 8 million tons of food -- or roughly 40% of the nation's produce.
Our own city of Boston was home to 49 victory gardens, including one on the Boston Common and one in front of Trinity Church in Copley Square. The oldest surviving victory garden is the Fenway Victory Gardens, founded in 1942 in response to FDR's Food Rationing Program. The gardens are located in the historic Back Bay Fens, a public park designed in the late 1800s by Frederick Law Olmsted. Today, the Fenway Victory Gardens is made up of over 500 gardens that are tended by members from neighborhoods all over Boston.
Our own city of Boston was home to 49 victory gardens, including one on the Boston Common and one in front of Trinity Church in Copley Square. The oldest surviving victory garden is the Fenway Victory Gardens, founded in 1942 in response to FDR's Food Rationing Program. The gardens are located in the historic Back Bay Fens, a public park designed in the late 1800s by Frederick Law Olmsted. Today, the Fenway Victory Gardens is made up of over 500 gardens that are tended by members from neighborhoods all over Boston.
