Dig It! Garden Blog
Author: Amy Holt
August 4, 2022
Herbs in Bloom
It’s high summer and the blooms are popping at the Gardens. The sight, the scents, the diversity—it’s all so good…
July 21, 2022
Sensational Sips for Summer Nights
In the heat of summer, there’s nothing quite like a good garden party, or a festive summer drink to serve…
July 7, 2022
Herbs: Great Garden Companions
It’s not too late to add herbs to your summer veggie beds, or too early to start thinking about a…
July 7, 2022
What’s in Bloom – July 7, 2022
Highlight: Different cultivars of beard-tongue are adding lovely white, pink and purple color across the Gardens. Visit the Arbor Garden…
June 16, 2022
Trees of the Trolls: Meet the Paper Birch
Last summer, five giant trolls emerged from the woods at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. These trolls are nature’s protectors—the Guardians…
June 8, 2022
New Plants in Old Spaces
Here in Maine, we always look forward to spring and seeing new and returning plant life in the Gardens. But…
June 2, 2022
Horticulture Diaries: The Wind Orchid
I first learned about the Gardens just days before I saw the help wanted ad. My interview was on a…
May 19, 2022
Bee Day–the Gardens’ bees have returned!
Sarah Callan (another Gardens educator) and I recently installed our new bee packages and brought our surviving hives home for…