Dig It! Garden Blog

Highlights: This week, peonies (Paeonia spp.) and false indigo (Baptisia spp.) are beginning to emerge from their buds, adding bright pops of color to the garden beds. Lilacs, including the fragrant and eye-catching Miss Kim…

Highlights: Rhododendrons and azaleas (Rhododendron spp.) continue on in their splendor this week, as poppies (Papaver spp.) and ornamental onions (Allium spp.) begin to open on the Great Lawn! Various species and cultivars of Solomon’s…

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is excited to share that we have recently gained two new global botanic garden accreditations! Accreditations are programs that verify that a public garden meets set standards and best practices for…

“Leave the Leaves” and “Water-Wise Gardening”— perhaps you’ve heard these sayings, or they may be new concepts for you. While these adages are lighthearted and fun, we take our ecological horticulture practices very seriously at…

Many of those familiar with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ living collection of plants will know that we select some plants for ornamental value and others specifically for biodiversity conservation and its interpretation. Curator of Living…

With all the buzz around bees, it can be easy to overlook other essential pollinators and insects that share our garden spaces. Beetles, flies, wasps, and spiders are just a few of the more hidden…

At the Gardens, ornamental grasses are at their peak! Check out the Skyracer purple moor grass (Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea ‘Skyracer’) in the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses, the prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) on…

Autumn is here at the Gardens, and the autumn flowering plants are blooming beautifully! Check out the lovely purple, pink and white asters opening across the gardens! The deep pink flowers of the Alma Potschke…