The Town of Wiscasset Sunken Garden is maintained in collaboration with the Appearance of the Town Committee. Solomon Seal, hostas, roses, a large climbing hydrangea, and added annuals make up the plantings. Efforts are underway to begin reworking this garden to what it might have looked like in 1914 when Frances Sortwell and her mother Gertrude created it across the street from the Nickels-Sortwell House. The newly restored landscape architecture (Fall 2020) was recreated from a picture of the original garden in 1910 ... the pergola and two arches add a special magnificence to this small jewel of a garden hidden in the middle of Wiscasset Village. For 2021, GCW and Committee garden teams plan to restore the "moonlight garden" with plantings of white climbing roses and annuals in white and light blue to “reflect” the moonlight.