Coming Up at the Gardens

June 19: Members-Only Native Tree Tour with Andy Abello
June 21: FULL - Vertical Gardening: Growing at Eye Level with Dick Zieg
June 24: The Life of a Plant: An Introduction to Botany with Lauren Stockwell
June 25: FULL - Mastering Manual Mode - Photography Class with Jessica Archer
June 27: Little Diggers Gardening & Nature Series for 3-5-Year-Olds
June 27: Opening reception for "Living Wood" Sculpture Show
June 28: Green Thumbs - three separate sessions for ages 6 and up
June 29: 9th Annual Symposium: Trees in Your New England Landscape
July 01: FULL - From Seed to Tree: A Propagation Workshop with Michael Dirr
July 02: Bug Safari for Ages 4-7
July 03: Trunk Show - Leslie Evans Balsam - July 3-10
July 05: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
July 06: Field Trip to the Viles Arboretum - For All Ages
July 08: Nature Explorers Camp for Ages 9-11
July 09: Flikr A-Z with Amity Beane
July 09: Kitchen Garden Series Dinner Featuring Restaurant Grace
July 09: Climate Change: How Plants Respond, with George Jacobson and Esperanza Stancioff
July 11: FULL - Selecting Native Plants for Your Maine Garden: Herbaceous Plants with Bill Cullina
July 11: Little Diggers Gardening & Nature Series for 3-5-Year-Olds
July 11: Lunaform - a 20th Anniversary Exhibit Reception
July 12: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
July 12: Gardening with Ease with Irene Brady Barber
July 13: Fantastic Flowers - for Ages 7 & Up
July 15: Nature Adventure Camp - Ages 4-5 & 6-8
July 16: Painting Poetry in Nature with Artist-in-Residence Hillary Parker
July 18: Edible Art with Artist-in-Residence Hillary Parker
July 18: Trunk Show - Azul Chocolates - July 18-24
July 19: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
July 19: Wine and Watercolors with Artist-in-Residence Hillary Parker
July 22: TREEmendous Trees - for ages 4-6 and 7 & up
July 23: Ikebana-Inspired Floral Design Demos and Workshops with Lee LaPointe, Kaye Vosburgh, and Betty McCarthy
July 25: Little Diggers Gardening & Nature Series for 3-5-Year-Olds
July 25: The Botany of Beer with Tim Boland and Julie Jenney
July 26: Natural Communities of Maine with Ted Elliman
July 26: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
July 26: Green Thumbs - three separate sessions for ages 6 and up
July 29: Nature Adventure Camp - Ages 4-5 & 6-8
August 01: Trunk Show - Mystic Woodworkers - August 1-7
August 02: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
August 03: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
August 04: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
August 05: Drawing Native Plants of Maine: 5-Day Workshop with Dick Rauh
August 05: Bug Safari for Ages 4-7
August 05: Kitchen Garden Series Dinner by Chef Gilberto Lozada
August 06: Fantastic Flowers - for Ages 7 & Up
August 08: Little Diggers Gardening & Nature Series for 3-5-Year-Olds
August 08: Ginkgo: The Tree that Time Forgot with Sir Peter Crane
August 09: Design a Home Landscape for Today and Tomorrow with Irene Brady Barber
August 10: TREEmendous Trees - for ages 4-6 and 7 & up
August 10: New! Meet the Experts: Members-Only Insider Tours
August 12: Five-Day Garden Explorers Camp - Ages 4-5 & 6-8
August 14: Survival in the Darwinian Garden: Planting the Fittest with Karen Bussolini
August 15: Trunk Show - Black Dinah Chocolatiers - August 15-21
August 16: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
August 17: Ikebana-Inspired Floral Design Demos and Workshops with Lee LaPointe, Kaye Vosburgh, and Betty McCarthy
August 19: Green Thumbs - three separate sessions for ages 6 and up
August 20: FULL: Intro to the Native Flora of Maine with Melissa Cullina
August 22: Little Diggers Gardening & Nature Series for 3-5-Year-Olds
August 23: Build a Woodland Fairy House with Amanda Russell - for Ages 12-Adult
August 23: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
August 23: Trunk Show - Ann Prescott Wood Bowls - August 23-29
August 23: Maine’s Biggest Timbers: The Eastern White Pine and the Mast Trade with Dick Gilbane, Tom Thomson, John Robinson and Norm Nelson.
August 26: The Giving Tree: Wildlife and Trees, with Tracey Hall
August 28: Fundamentals of Garden and Planting Design with Rodney Eason
August 30: Fairy Fridays...And One Weekend
September 05: Air Tools Workshop for Arborists, Landscapers, Landscape Designers, and Landscape Architects, with Rolf Briggs
September 06: Tree Care and Preservation Workshop for Homeowners, with Expert-in-Residence Rolf Briggs
September 06: Ask the Arborist, with Rolf Briggs
September 08: Kitchen Garden Series Dinner with Chef Brian Hill of Francine Bistro
September 11: Historic Homes and Gardens Tour: Sarah Orne Jewett House and Hamilton House
September 12: Horticultural Ecology: Biological Interactions of Gardens Plants and Environment with Bill Cullina
September 13: Planting the Right Plants in the Right Place with Irene Brady Barber
September 15: Summer's End Tea
September 17: Explore the Depth and Breadth of Sustainable Forestry
September 22: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Annual Meeting
September 25: After the Shutter Closes, with Bill Cullina
September 26: Sustainable Horticultural Practices with Irene Brady Barber
October 04: Invasive Plants: Issues, Identification, and Ecology with Ted Elliman
October 08: FULL - Wildflower Propagation with Bill Cullina
October 11: Bringing the Outdoors Indoors with Irene Brady Barber
October 17: Selecting Native Plants for the Maine Garden: Woody Plants

We’re Tops on the Top Ten!

To celebrate National Garden Month, TripAdvisor rated the Top Ten gardens in the U.S., and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is Number One on the list. Learn more.

Discover Gorgeous Gardens!

For a preview, see our new YouTube video!

We invite you to experience Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ spectacular 250-acre landscape. Our gardens and wild spaces are uniquely beautiful and always full of surprises!

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is open daily year-round. The Gardens Gift Shop and Kitchen Garden Cafe are now open for the season.

To learn more about the plants at the Gardens and see other useful information, click on the FloraFind image at right.

A Year of Trees

Our theme for 2013 – Trees, Timbers and Traditions encompasses the many facets of trees and their multitude of uses. Look for the simple tree icon (at left) that marks theme-related programs, events, exhibits, and activities. Learn more.

Visitor Information
Location: 132 Botanical Gardens Drive, off Barters Island Road in Boothbay. See detailed directions.
Hours: 9-5 daily, year-round (closed Thanksgiving and Christmas); buildings are closed weekends beginning November 1. See admission details.

Check out Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, tops on the list of America’s top ten public gardens, on TripAdvisor.

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"Life of a Plant" Class: An Intro to Botany

Botanist and environmental consultant Lauren Stockwell will teach this intensive three-day class full of fascinating and useful information. June 24-26. Learn more and register.

Trees in Your New England Landscape - Our 9th Annual Symposium

Dr. Michael Dirr, Rodney Eason, and Renae Moran know just about everything about trees. Join us on June 29 to learn from this incredible trio of experts. Sign up now.

Sculpture Show Reception, Thursday, June 27 (5-7 p.m.)

Celebrate the creativity of fine New England artists and artisans and enjoy refreshments during the opening reception for the "Living Wood" exhibit, curated by June LaCombe. Free and open to the public.