Dig It! Garden Blog

Please channel your best Ethel Merman and help me sing out the old year…. There’s no business like grow business, Like no business I know. Everything about it is appealing, Everything the good earth will…

It is here, with frost glistening on the autumn grasses, that I still find peace in the early mornings at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.  The air is chilled and the squirrels have just begun to…

Let me catch y’all up on what we’ve been doing since mid-October. We gave away or composted all of the pumpkins we had on display. Just by doing a visual estimate, we’re guessing that more…

Photos by Dick Zieg This has been a banner year at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in many ways. With the number of guests approaching 96,000 for the year so far, there have been days where…

“Maggie’s Couch” “Boat Bench” “Pinecone” This blog won’t reveal secrets of state, weight loss, or celebrity scandal.   Hopefully, it will reveal quite the opposite, giving you a respite from the ceaseless noise of the outside…

The Pinus densiflora ‘Burke’sRed Varigated’ I planted my first day,looking as healthy as ever. Part of the team that has madethis such a memorable summer. I’m sure to miss the Maine woodlands.(Photo by Brian Richers) As…

A group of volunteers hard at work, deadheadingin the Bibby and Harold Alfond Children’s Garden. A view of the beautiful sunrise over thevarious Echinacea on the Great Lawn. As if you didn’t already know, the experiences…

Director of Horticulture Rodney Eason taking hisclass out to explore the garden. No photo editing here! What a striking color onthese beautiful hydrangeas! A glance at the sweeping meadow in Elsie’s garden. While working at…