Betsy Gibson Design-Floral and Home

06/14/2024

One of our new and most popular Nantucket Love™ designs is featured here on a baby bodysuit. It is also available on T-shirts, sweatshirts, and hoodies for kids and adults! We may also try it out on some stationery or home accessories...stay tuned!

06/13/2024

Our 2024 Nantucket Love™ collection is finally up on ZAZZLE, where there is currently a ****15% OFF**** sale on all items. We'll be adding more products and more designs on Zazzle in the future, but we'll also be reopening our NantucketLoveDesigns.com website (with different products!) VERY soon. So if you love Nantucket, it's not too late to take a look! It's the perfect time, in fact. xo

Check out all of the amazing designs that NantucketLove™ has created for your Zazzle products. Make one-of-a-kind gifts with these designs!

08/10/2023

And we have a bloom!!!! And a few more coming along. The winter did serious damage to many of our flowering plants (including their foliage) this year. But they’re fighting the good fight!! (No, I did not get rid of the old growth…just in case!)

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08/09/2023

Mandevilla for the win this summer. Great in urns, it flowers all summer, and—best of all—it made it through the heat of July!!

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08/08/2023

I love searching for (or, if I’m lucky, simply coming across) historic articles, advertisements, photographs or illustrations that are meaningful to me in one way or another. This advertisement for White’s Estate Trucks is one of those cool finds.

Among the estates that boasted a White’s Truck was Ferndale Farm. Ferndale Farm consisted of our current property plus acres and acres of property all the way down to Auburndale. The estate was owned by Bancroft Davis at the time of this ad (1914), and it was in good company. Check out all of the well known landowners who had a White’s Truck for staff to use. While I think that Jonas Cutter was long gone by the time that Bancroft Davis came around, I’ll bet he would have loved using this truck on the farm!! Almost as much as I love the ad. And flash forward to today: the house is still here, but the truck is long gone.

08/04/2023

Last week’s blooms…🧡

08/03/2023

One of our magnificent Sugar Maples. After weeks of horrendous heat, we’ve had two lovely days!! This is a morning shot, and I just love the form, texture, scale, and COLOR of this tree. Not to mention the fabulous crisp blue sky that so beautifully frames my special tree…💚💙

07/30/2023

It looks and feels like September at Cutter House!! Nothing better than crisp blue skies, lush green grounds, and my beloved yellow house to make a perfect Sunday!! 💙💚💛

07/28/2023

Missing Sconset…

07/12/2023

Blooming today in Weston! So beautiful to see, as our poor Nikko Blue Hydrangeas are struggling to produce any blooms this year—it’s been a rough season for them!!

07/10/2023

Summer window boxes with two different licorice plants for a bit of interest…

06/25/2023

I love restoration!



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The duPonts repapered many of the walls of Montpelier during their ownership of the historic property.

During the Montpelier Restoration, a multitude of post-Madison wallpaper had to be removed to reveal the bits and pieces of the Madison wallpaper that remained.

Samples of all the duPont wallpaper were carefully removed with steam and saved for future study. Each sample is kept in archival-quality bags in storage at Montpelier.
From almost microscopic samples, the Restoration Team was able to restore the walls of some of the largest rooms in the house.
Swipe through to view samples of the duPont wallpaper removed during the Restoration.

You can read more about the Restoration and past to present wallcovering through the link in bio.