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Established 2026 · Cape Cod
GardensbyKirsten
— Fine Gardening, considered & well kept —

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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A Coastal Cottage

Wellfleet · 2024

Hydrangea Restoration

Chatham · 2023

A Walled Kitchen Garden

Brewster · 2024

Rose Border, Reborn

Truro · 2024

Berry Patch & Pollinators

Eastham · 2023

A Formal Parterre

Orleans · 2022
Kirsten doesn't just maintain a garden — she has a relationship with it. Our roses have never looked like this in twenty years.
— A client in Orleans
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Booking Spring 2026.

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

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