The Well-Edited Garden: Sakonnet, Rhode Island
Research Garden DesignBrowse photos, get design ideas & see the hottest plants The Sakonnet Garden in Little Compton , Rhode Island , began as the private domain of the then 12 - year - old John Gwynne—“a place I could search , ” say Gwynne , now retire and again spending much of his clip in the one - Akko plot of ground . Situated on a peninsula brushed by the Gulf Stream , small Compton delight a maritime clime that allows Gwynne and Mikel Folcarelli , his partner of 30 years , to develop a wide variety of flora , from Himalayan blue poppies to palms ....