That’s Martha as in Stewart, the amazing businesswoman, writer, television personality, and all things about classy homes. And Nick as in Nick Sekela, founder of Oasis Realty Group in Bellport, who sells them.

And the garden project Stewart told Sekela she will be overseeing for a friend in Brookhaven hamlet.

Woo! Hoo!

So how did this twosome converge?

“I was in the Bahamas with my husband earlier this month, she was there, and we connected through a mutual friend and spent time with her at Nobu, a dinner she hosted as well as a garden party,” related Sekela.

“We’re talking and have a couple of mutual friends, and I mentioned Bellport Village.”

Those were the magic words.

“She lit up.”

Stewart commented on a property she was designing nearby, a friend’s garden in Brookhaven Hamlet. “He’s a world-famous photographer and has known Martha for decades,” said Sekela of the friend and owner.

The property is just under an acre.

“Martha is designing it. Her team will do the plans and maps,” he said. “Ocean Building Corp. in the Hamptons was also tapped for the project.” 

Work is scheduled to begin in April, he said.

Will it be on the Bellport Garden Tour this year?

No promises, but Sekela said he’d try to convince the owner.

Sekela is a licensed real estate salesperson (he obtained his license in 2014) who founded Oasis last year. He has a staff of 10 and an office that, well, looks like an oasis with a tropical wallpaper motif in his office, clean walls, sleek furniture. And also, a podcast setup for sessions offering quick, sensible real estate tips with glam. Sekela narrates marketing films of every home listed with Oasis with pull-you-in details. They are short, a little over a minute, and gorgeously capture and highlight, for example, a cottage’s charm, or a historic home’s elegant touches, or a mansion’s, as well as its lush grounds. He also uses drones.

“I worked in radio and was the No. 1 afternoon show with WALK 97 on Colonial Drive in East Patchogue and also worked on WBLI and Z100,” he said. “Over the course of the afternoon show, I developed relationships with listeners, then parlayed that with helping them find homes.”

Thus, the logical segue to real estate.

Sekela is doing so well, there’s an imminent move to another location in the middle of Main Street soon.

As for Stewart, when the work begins, who knows?

“She may be popping up in Bellport,” he said.