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Scary? Nerve-racking? Definitely understandable. But once you have the basics down, the power to prune becomes nothing but liberating (not to mention a good late-winter workout…).
At the Gardens, you know we love our flowers, but dahlias? With their fierce following, colorful history, and bedazzling array of blooms, they’re the flower-lover’s flower. Even artist Claude Monet, who owed having become a…
Give your neighborhood birds some Valentine love—right from your kitchen! Fight the winter blues and try these fun ideas for homemade suet cakes.
Given the past few years, resiliency is a term we’ve become familiar with and concerned about cultivating. But what does it mean to apply the term to our gardening and landscaping endeavors? As garden- and…
Take the trolls home with you this winter by learning more about the real-life botany and ecology behind their fairy tale! Here is the trolls’ essential reading list—20 books about trees, the forest, the people…
Winter décor and evergreens just go hand in hand, don’t they? Because evergreens are often the only sign of life in an otherwise cold, dormant world, they symbolize life, health, and home. In fact, the…
It takes a village to launch an event like Gardens Aglow, and to learn how we get there, I sat down with lighting designer and horticulturist, Brent McHale.
Here in Maine, we know winter. We’re old companions and have learned to tolerate each other, but come spring? There aren’t many of us who aren’t ready for the welcome sight of early spring flowers….
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