iNature Photography Workshop (Ages 10-14)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday, June 27-Friday, July 1 Using your iPhone or iPad, advance your digital photography skills in this exciting hands-on workshop....
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Summer Discoveries: Butterflies (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: Butterflies (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Summertime is prime butterfly time! Join us to explore our Native Butterfly and Moth House, as well as other butterfly...
2 events,
Outdoor Family Fun Days
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
Paper Art Workshop (Ages 8-14) (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Wednesday, July 6-Friday, July 8 Observe nature and get creative as we delve into the ancient—and modern—techniques of paper arts....
2 events,
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Vertical Garden Creations
Vertical Garden Creations
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Come join Irene Barber, Adult Education Program Manager, as she puts together one of the wonderful vertical gardens on display...
2 events,
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Integrated Pest and Disease Management
Integrated Pest and Disease Management
Bosarge Family Education Center
This one-day class will cover extensive ground on the insects, diseases, and deficiencies found on plants in the landscape. Applying principles of integrated pest management (IPM), the course will help students identify, monitor, and prevent poor plant health and, when necessary, deal with treatments. State Horticulturalist Gary Fish will emphasize preventative measures and help students determine the methods to mitigate further plant-pest problems.
2 events,
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Fabulous First-Rate Foliage
Fabulous First-Rate Foliage
Bosarge Family Education Center
When selecting landscape plants, flowers tend to get most of our attention. But when flowers start to fade, what’s better...
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Fancy-Pants Plants
Fancy-Pants Plants
Bosarge Family Education Center
Put on your Sunday best, folks, because these plants are dressed to impress! They might be hard to find, hard...
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2 events,
Nature Art Camp: Drawing Blooms and Butterflies (Ages 7-12) (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday, July 11-Friday, July 15 Young artists put their investigative skills to work as they collect, study, identify, and illustrate...
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Paint the Gardens: Plein Air Watercolor Painting
Paint the Gardens: Plein Air Watercolor Painting
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday-Wednesday, July 11-13 | Come out and enjoy painting in the best studio ever—the great outdoors! The Gardens offers a plethora of inspiration, and painting with watercolor is such fun once you have a basic understanding of how to work with it—it’s both spontaneous and predictable, all at the same time! Feel more confident after this class, filled with detailed instruction about technique and creating a good composition. Erica’s humor and gentle nature will make you feel at ease and enjoy the process. Class time will be spent on classroom instruction and demonstration and time to work independently, putting new skills to work in the Gardens with plenty of instructor feedback.
2 events,
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Summer Discoveries: The Five Senses (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: The Five Senses (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Discover all that you can see, smell, hear, feel, and even taste as we tour the Lerner Garden of the...
2 events,
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Create your own Kokedama (Ages 14+)
Create your own Kokedama (Ages 14+)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Unique, exceptional and magical are just some of the adjectives used to describe kokedama, the Japanese art of growing plants...
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Plant ID & Ecology: Conifers
Plant ID & Ecology: Conifers
Bosarge Family Education Center
In this field-study class, Jeff O'Donal, nurseryman and conifer grower, will explore the extensive world of conifers, including native and non-native species, specimen plants and those great for naturalizing into our native landscapes. Diverse, conifers grow in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and the needle species offer so many options: variations of gold and blue, soft or coarse textures, varieties of needle lengths, deciduous or evergreen, fragrant or neutral—there’s something for every style and landscape, from gardens to containers.
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Nature Adventure Camp (Ages 4-6) (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday, July 18-Friday, July 22 Our summer nature camps provide fun and enriching opportunities for young people to learn about...
2 events,
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Identifying & Preserving Summer Wildflowers (Ages 10+)
Identifying & Preserving Summer Wildflowers (Ages 10+)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Identify and collect summer wildflowers, learning to develop your botany skills with resident botanist and Director of Plant Science &...
2 events,
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Summer Discoveries: Life of a Plant (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: Life of a Plant (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Learn about what happens as a seed becomes a full-grown plant, then starts the entire cycle all over again! We’ll...
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Wabanaki Essentials: Tools for Life and Home
Wabanaki Essentials: Tools for Life and Home
Bosarge Family Education Center
Long before products manufactured from metals, plastics, or synthetics were widely available, essential daily tools like pots, baskets, bowls, and utensils were handmade from elements found in nature. In this all-ages class, learn how the Wabanaki made such daily essentials and how these traditions live on, connecting people to earth and to heritage. Learn from Barry Dana (Penobscot) and Lori Dana as they share stories, describing how to know what natural elements are used for what function and where they can be found, as well as the making process, produced by hand without the need for electricity, oil, coal, or metal. To finish class, you'll learn how to braid traditional bass rope.
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Plant ID & Ecology: Freshwater Wetland Plants
Plant ID & Ecology: Freshwater Wetland Plants
Bosarge Family Education Center
Wetland plants are wildly diverse and beautiful—take the marsh marigold or the wild calla, the latter related to the traditional calla lily sold by florists. Join us for this field-study class with plant ecologist Ted Elliman and develop skills to identify freshwater wetland plants, developing an understanding of their growing conditions, habits, and seasonal performance. Gain a deeper appreciation for the ecological value of these often-overlooked species.
Creating a Miniature Garden (Ages 8+)
Creating a Miniature Garden (Ages 8+)
Bosarge Family Education Center
This fun and family-friendly hands-on workshop will have you exploring your gardening creativity—in miniature! First, learn about and draw inspiration...
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Nature Adventure Camp (Ages 6-8) (Sold Out)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday, July 25-Friday, July 29 Our summer nature camps provide fun and enriching opportunities for young people to learn about...
4 events,
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Pollinators & Honey
Pollinators & Honey
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
We have a special love of honeybees at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Sarah Callan, Interpretation & Exhibits Educator, and Emily...
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Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Book Arts
Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Book Arts
Bosarge Family Education Center
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26 and 27 | This intensive, two-day course explores and unites two creative processes: poetry and the visual arts. Taking inspiration from the forms, colors, and inhabitants of the Gardens, students will write, illustrate, and design an artists’ book, including a two-pamphlet paperback journal, a flag book, and a layered accordion book. Day one begins in the classroom, then moves into the Gardens for inspiration. Day two begins with poetry prompts, then students will venture off on their own to create patterns in poetic response to the Gardens. Students will also gain a playful acquaintance with poetic forms like the villanelle, the sestina, and the pantoum.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
3 events,
Outdoor Family Fun Days
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
Summer Discoveries: The Garden Habitat (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: The Garden Habitat (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
The Gardens is home to many (many!) plants. In turn, those plants become home to lots of interesting creatures! Come...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Become a Guardian: Trees of the Trolls Tour
Become a Guardian: Trees of the Trolls Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Dive into forest ecology and discover how to become a better steward of our ecosystem, just like the Guardians of...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
1 event,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
2 events,
Garden Investigators Camp: Pollinators! (Ages 4-6)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Monday, August 1-Friday August 5 Campers will spend the week getting up close and personal with the amazing pollinators making...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
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Art at the Garden
Art at the Garden
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Art is essential in life! At the Gardens, we love to show off artists, both local and from afar. Join...
Summer Discoveries: The Five Senses (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: The Five Senses (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Discover all that you can see, smell, hear, feel, and even taste as we tour the Lerner Garden of the...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
Outdoor Family Fun Days
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
6 events,
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
New Member Orientation Tour
New Member Orientation Tour
Lerner Visitor Center
Becoming a member at the Gardens opens up an entire world of ways to enjoy the spaces and programming that...
6 events,
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
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Introduction to Native Flora of Maine
Introduction to Native Flora of Maine
Online & Bosarge Family Education Center
Fridays, August 5 and 12 and Saturday, August 13 | The first step to gardening with Maine’s native plants is meeting them in their wild habitats. Over this two-day class, CMBG’s Research Botanist, Melissa Cullina, will help students recognize 50 or more frequent coastal species.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
4 events,
The Caterpillar Lab
The Caterpillar Lab
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
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Summer Discoveries: Butterflies (Ages 3-8)
Summer Discoveries: Butterflies (Ages 3-8)
Bosarge Family Education Center
Summertime is prime butterfly time! Join us to explore our Native Butterfly and Moth House, as well as other butterfly...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
The Caterpillar Walk
The Caterpillar Walk
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
The Caterpillar Lab is moving in, and while the exhibit is filled with munching critters offering lots to explore, the...
