Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Monday, August 1-Friday August 5 Campers will spend the week getting up close and personal with the amazing pollinators making...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Art is essential in life! At the Gardens, we love to show off artists, both local and from afar. Join...
Discover all that you can see, smell, hear, feel, and even taste as we tour the Lerner Garden of the...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Becoming a member at the Gardens opens up an entire world of ways to enjoy the spaces and programming that...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
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.
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Summertime is prime butterfly time! Join us to explore our Native Butterfly and Moth House, as well as other butterfly...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
The Caterpillar Lab is moving in, and while the exhibit is filled with munching critters offering lots to explore, the...
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
The Caterpillar Lab is moving in, and while the exhibit is filled with munching critters offering lots to explore, the...
Monday, August 8-Friday August 12 Campers will spend the week getting up close and personal with the amazing pollinators making...
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Monday and Tuesday, August 8 and 9 | Join us to learn a brief history of the intriguing art of mosaic, including information on materials, substrates, and tools. Experience hands-on the different methods of working—direct, indirect, and double reverse—by using these methods to make a tile each day of class. We’ll talk about andamento, or way mosaic tiles are laid, as well as use of color and tile shape.
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Tuesday, August 9, Wednesday, August 10 and Tuesday, August 16 | During this three-part, shore-based marine science course, participants will investigate how geology, weather, and climate change over time and how these changes impact the organisms and plant life living in local rivers and in the Gulf of Maine. Compare and contrast local rivers, and investigate and identify what lies between the surface and the seafloor.
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
Back by popular demand! Join us August 3-10 when perennial favorite, The Caterpillar Lab, sets up its functioning caterpillar rearing,...
Becoming a member at the Gardens opens up an entire world of ways to enjoy the spaces and programming that...
Interested in learning about the benefits of incorporating native deciduous shrubs into your garden? Or maybe you already have shrubs...
The Gardens is home to many (many!) plants. In turn, those plants become home to lots of interesting creatures! Come...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Dive into forest ecology and discover how to become a better steward of our ecosystem, just like the Guardians of...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Discover all that you can see, smell, hear, feel, and even taste as we tour the Lerner Garden of the...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Monday, August 15-Friday, August 19 Budding gardeners will spend the week digging, planting, watering, and harvesting fruits and veggies in...
Monday-Wednesday, August 15-17 | Join instructor Kate MacGillivary for this three-day class focusing on rendering the beautiful details of garden blossoms and buds in colored pencil. Designed for students with some previous drawing experience, this class offers plenty of time to create a beautiful drawing. Kate will give students the time and attention needed to get a wonderful feel for the medium of colored pencil. Plant material for students to study and draw will be provided.
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
In this workshop and field-study class, herbalism practitioner and staff horticulturalist Lesley Paxson will review 10 specific plants used for...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Dive into forest ecology and discover how to become a better steward of our ecosystem, just like the Guardians of...
Our gardens and gardening practices are intrinsically tied to nature. This class will guide students through the best design and management strategies that work in unison with nature, encouraging and embracing biodiversity and sustaining healthy, low-maintenance gardens. Anna Fialkoff, Program Manager at Wild Seed Project, offers an overview of plant selection and processes for achieving beautiful gardens requiring minimal manual labor.
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Want to enter the world of beetles, butterflies, bees, grasshoppers, wasps, and flies? Ages 14-adult are invited to join us...
Ever wonder what it would be like to have the whole of the Gardens to yourself? Members can come find...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Whether called fields, meadows, or pastures, these wide-open, full-sun terrains all feature a dominant grass population mixed with wildflowers and smaller woody species. In partnership with the Boothbay Region Land Trust, this class will guide students on walks at the Gardens, Oak Point, and Zak Preserve. Led by Ted Elliman, participants will learn how to identify and better understand meadow culture—perfect for those interested in starting or sustaining an open grassland!
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Our Native Plant Tour begins with a stroll down the Haney Hillside, moving from cultivated native plantings to the natural...
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
Learn about what happens as a seed becomes a full-grown plant, then starts the entire cycle all over again! We’ll...
Join world-renowned photographer Ron Rosenstock for this Zoom lecture. Ron will elaborate on the three main ingredients needed to create...
This exciting and interactive program introduces audiences to our native warm-blooded vertebrates: Maine mammals. Each participant can study a mounted...
Explore the wide array of the season’s blooming dahlias! Join Courtney Locke on a tour of the Dahlia Garden. We’ll...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Explore the opportunities for Wabanaki-led conservation in what is now Maine in this year’s Ina and Lewis Heafitz Endowed Lecture with Dr. Darren Ranco. In this free, endowed lecture, he will share contemporary scholarship about Indigenous conservation practices, define the terminology used by Indigenous people for conservation work, and identify best practices for partnerships with environmental organizations and Indigenous peoples.
What exactly is a specimen tree? Good question! Specimen trees are trees that fulfill specific garden design goals, such as...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Dive into forest ecology and discover how to become a better steward of our ecosystem, just like the Guardians of...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Two live owls are the highlights of this program introducing participants to the owls native to Maine and New England....
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Thanks to generous support from L.L.Bean, kids 17 and under are free every Wednesday in July and August, 2022. No...
The tide pool is home to a variety of species whose unique adaptations allow them to maintain stability in a...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...
Deepening your connection to nature through moving meditation offers enormous benefits for personal well-being. In this gentle class, experience how the simple practice of walking mindfully through a forest can provide deep serenity. By engaging with all five senses, we can enhance awareness and presence. Follow Susan Bickford, certified guide in the ancient Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, or forest therapy/forest bathing, and gain the tools needed to begin your own meditation practice. The walk ends with a tea ceremony.
Join us for this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Café building and walk through the gardens...