Dig It! Garden Blog

It’s not too late to add herbs to your summer veggie beds, or too early to start thinking about a planting scheme for a fall harvest!

Highlight: Different cultivars of beard-tongue are adding lovely white, pink and purple color across the Gardens. Visit the Arbor Garden to see the sunny yellow and clematis and trumpet honeysuckle.   Lyn and Daniel Lerner…

Highlight: Baptisias are exploding with bright color across the gardens! Check out the Fringe Trees blooming in the Cleaver Event Lawn and the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses. Water lilies are just starting to…

Last summer, five giant trolls emerged from the woods at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. These trolls are nature’s protectors—the Guardians of the Seeds. Deep in the forest, they have saved and hidden seeds from ten…

Here in Maine, we always look forward to spring and seeing new and returning plant life in the Gardens. But our seasons definitely play a part in how much, how little, how late, or how…

I first learned about the Gardens just days before I saw the help wanted ad. My interview was on a cold March morning, and snow still covered most of the ground. I pulled my zipper…

Sarah Callan (another Gardens educator) and I recently installed our new bee packages and brought our surviving hives home for the season. Early on a chilly morning, we grabbed our veils and hive tools, and…

Those who have been coming to the Gardens for many seasons have probably noticed a smaller-than-usual population of tulips in recent years. And while we know tulip displays are a popular draw, there is good…