Me inspecting one of our composting display setups. Fellow intern Kristin Neill posing next to our facility compost pile to show scale. You can deduce the high nutrient content of the compost by the…
My favorite view from White Head. The whole island has beautifulviews such as this! Here in the horticulture department of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, it may sometimes seem like all our staff does is work…
Enjoying some tea surrounded by our native mountain mint in front of the Bosarge Family Education Center. Container troughs packed with Colorado native plants (Photo from Denver Botanic Garden) Polygonatum biflorum, Maine’s nativeSolomon’s seal. This…
My first work of floral art! Check the table behind the frontcounter to see these vases! Flowers serve no purpose in our lives. The natural world needs them and they are used to…
CMBG horticulture interns along with staffhorticulturist Megan Deveau (on right)striking a pose at The Arnold Arboretum.(Photo by Rodney Eason) One of the striking views withinMount Auburn Cemetery.(Photo by Montana Williams) Yesterday, the Coastal Maine Botanical…
My first attempt at floral arranging. Hemerocallis from my backyard. Fellow intern Kristin and I sporting our CMBG pride with fairy wings (every Friday the garden hosts fairy-related activities for the kids. You can…
The soil pH testing kit we used The samples and the pH value to compare them to. As many of you know, at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens we have a lot of planting…
Sharmon showing me how to use our surveying equipment The surveying equipment we used New Pines emerging from an old tree trunk in the Giles Rhododendron Garden Looking for a way to escape the aberrant…
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