Dig It! Garden Blog
Behind the Scenes
May 27, 2026
Where Art Meets Observation: Living with Maine’s Wildflowers Indoors
Inside the offices of the Lyn and Daniel Lerner Visitor Center—home to teams across horticulture, plant science, membership, marketing, finance,…
September 22, 2025
Maker Stories: In the Studio With Kristin Dennison of Goodland Pottery
Kristin Dennison can sit for hours at her pottery wheel. The flat, circular machine is about three feet tall and…
August 4, 2025
A Partnership to Preserve Wildness Around Cultivated Spaces
As part of our commitment to plant science and conservation, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has partnered with student researchers across…
July 22, 2025
Why a Passion for Native Plants Matters
“It’s been sort of a thread that’s just woven throughout my life…this interest in plants and the environment,” Ginger Rickeman…
March 20, 2023
Digitizing the Gardens’ Herbarium
The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Herbarium is a hub of energy, activity, and progress this spring!
January 12, 2023
Meet Gardenshop’s Makers
If you’ve been to Gardenshop—or its accompanying webshop—you might have noticed that, beyond offering visitors a memorable piece of the…
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…