Smart Growth
For one yardless Annapolis couple, a lush container garden was the logical choice
By Catherine Umphrey
Photography By Celia Pearson.
One doesn’t expect to see a tropical jungle growing on the streets of historic downtown Annapolis. But if you bypass the traditional tourist destinations and make a detour down Cathedral Street, that is just what you will find. Here, enhancing a modest, two-story apartment house, is a favorite local attraction – the wildly exuberant garden of Nancy Lowry Moitrier and her husband, Pierre Moitrier. Having no place but a porch, one planter box, and the sidewalk to make a garden, the Moitriers grow nearly all their plants in pots.
