Dig It! Garden Blog

Many of those familiar with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ living collection of plants will know that we select some plants for ornamental value and others specifically for biodiversity conservation and its interpretation. Curator of Living…

With all the buzz around bees, it can be easy to overlook other essential pollinators and insects that share our garden spaces. Beetles, flies, wasps, and spiders are just a few of the more hidden…

At the Gardens, ornamental grasses are at their peak! Check out the Skyracer purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea ‘Skyracer’) in the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses, the prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) on…

Autumn is here at the Gardens, and the autumn flowering plants are blooming beautifully! Check out the lovely purple, pink and white asters opening across the gardens! The deep pink flowers of the Alma Potschke…

Pink and white anemones are blooming across the Gardens! Be sure to see the Robustissima grape-leaf anemone (Anemone tomentosa ‘Robustissima’) on the Cleaver Lawn, the WILD SWAN™ anemone (Anemone ‘MACANE001’) in the Vayo Meditation Garden,…

Late summer flowers are in full bloom at the Gardens! Check out the beautiful toad–lily (Tricyrtis macropoda) blooming in Slater Forest Pond, and the bright yellow flowers of cut–leaf prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum var. pinnatifidum)…

Rose mallow continues to bloom across the Gardens! Check out the bright white flowers of the Blue River II rose mallow (Hibiscus ‘Blue River II’) in the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses and the…

This week rose mallow (Hibiscus sp.) are blooming across the Gardens! Check out the bright red blooms of ‘Starry Starry Night’ rose mallow (Hibiscus ‘Starry Starry Night’) in the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses,…