Across the gardens, the often seen but nonetheless beautiful blossoms of the common milkweed are blooming – this plant is a favorite food source of the Monarch butterfly! Coming into bloom this week are false…
Summer is a great time to get reading as a family. We went to the experts on our staff: Gardenshop’s buyer, a retired primary school teacher now working in Gardenshop, and the Gardens’ Youth and…
Throughout the gardens, kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) cultivars with a great variety of form in flower, leaf, and bark are prominent and remarkable this week. A few flowers to keep an eye out for are…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and Maine Natural Areas Program, with funding support from the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund, are partnering to complete a statewide evaluation of Maine’s native plant species. A conservation and threat assessment of…
We may be known here at the Gardens for our focus on the botanical world, but nature is complex and interrelated—every creature, from flowers to wildlife, help us connect to the world around us.
This week, some of the later–blooming peonies and earlier–blooming lilies will look marvelous. The Haney Hillside Garden will be speckled with clusters of white, red, and pink as the mountain laurel begins to flower. Ashe’s…
In the upcoming days, iris, clematis, and foxgloves (Digitalis) will be genera of special interest for flower lovers. The deep pink weigela blooms around the bridge in the Pond Gardens are also especially eye-catching, and…
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