Dig It! Garden Blog

Here at the Gardens, we have some pretty amazing tools that we’re excited to launch. The first, IrisBG, is a collections-management database that allows us to keep records of every planting in our living collections….

It’s high summer and the blooms are popping at the Gardens. The sight, the scents, the diversity—it’s all so good for our well-being. But did you know that some of these plants, ornamental and beautiful…

Highlight: Hydrangeas are blooming bright throughout the garden! Check out the delicate flowers of the sourwood opening on the Haney Hillside. Great coneflower is standing tall in the Butterfly House garden. The purple flowers of…

In the heat of summer, there’s nothing quite like a good garden party, or a festive summer drink to serve alongside whatever wonderful seasonal produce you have on the menu.

It’s not too late to add herbs to your summer veggie beds, or too early to start thinking about a planting scheme for a fall harvest!

Highlight: Different cultivars of beard-tongue are adding lovely white, pink and purple color across the Gardens. Visit the Arbor Garden to see the sunny yellow and clematis and trumpet honeysuckle.   Lyn and Daniel Lerner…

Highlight: Baptisias are exploding with bright color across the gardens! Check out the Fringe Trees blooming in the Cleaver Event Lawn and the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses. Water lilies are just starting to…

Last summer, five giant trolls emerged from the woods at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. These trolls are nature’s protectors—the Guardians of the Seeds. Deep in the forest, they have saved and hidden seeds from ten…