Calendar of Garden Events
Garden happenings, exhibits, and special events can be found on the calendar below.
Calendar of Events
Sun Sunday
Mon Monday
Tue Tuesday
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Thu Thursday
Fri Friday
Sat Saturday
2 events,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
4 events,
Lincoln County Resident Days
Lincoln County residents get free admission on the first Wednesday of the month throughout the regular season. For admission, please...
Horticultural Ecology
Horticultural Ecology
Wednesdays, September 1 and 8 Explore the ways in which plants interact with their garden environments. Join instructor Dan Robarts...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Flowers and Foliage for Dried Wreaths
Flowers and Foliage for Dried Wreaths
Learn from expert wreath maker Jen Dunlap, whose amazing and imaginative harvest wreaths feature dried floral and foliar cuttings from...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Trees of the Trolls Tour
Trees of the Trolls Tour
The trolls have emerged at the Gardens—and they’re guarding the seeds of Maine's most important tree species, hidden deep in...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
2 events,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
2 events,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Native Plant Tour
Native Plant Tour
CMBG’s native plants will begin with a stroll down the Haney Hillside, moving from cultivated native plantings to the natural...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Wetlands Tour
Wetlands Tour
Join us for a staff-led walk through CMBG’s many wetlands down to the Back River. On this tour, learn how...
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
Bulbs Blooming, Spring through Fall
Bulbs Blooming, Spring through Fall
In this class, Courtney Locke, bulb grower and Staff Horticulturist, will discuss the world of bulbs beyond tulips and daffodils....
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Trees of the Trolls Tour
Trees of the Trolls Tour
The trolls have emerged at the Gardens—and they’re guarding the seeds of Maine's most important tree species, hidden deep in...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
2 events,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
Sow for the Future: New England Meadow Plants
Sow for the Future: New England Meadow Plants
Seeds are miracles of the plant world – a lot of power packed into a small case that sustains nature’s...
1 event,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
4 events,
Block Printing Workshop: Flora and Fauna Relationships and Interactions
Celebrate the natural world by creating a work of art honoring the relationship between an animal and a plant. Block printing, a form of relief printing, is the oldest, simplest, and most direct approach to making an impression. Experience all aspects of the process, from handling and care of tools through inking and printing your own images by hand.
Selecting Native Woody Plants
Selecting Native Woody Plants
This class will explore the motivation and philosophy behind using woody native plants in the garden, discuss straight species, cultivars, and sources for materials. Andy Brand, the Gardens' Curator of Living Collections, will expand on the ecological relationship between host plants and the insects and pollinators critical in maintaining the balance between management and reproduction.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Trees of the Trolls Tour
Trees of the Trolls Tour
The trolls have emerged at the Gardens—and they’re guarding the seeds of Maine's most important tree species, hidden deep in...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
1 event,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
1 event,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
2 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Native Plant Tour
Native Plant Tour
CMBG’s native plants will begin with a stroll down the Haney Hillside, moving from cultivated native plantings to the natural...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
4 events,
Budding Naturalist: Fall Insects (Ages 8-14)
Budding Naturalist: Fall Insects (Ages 8-14)
Does your child love nature and want to expand their identification skills? In this program geared toward students ages 8-14,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
Houseplants: Bring the Outdoors In
Houseplants: Bring the Outdoors In
In the northeast, when the warm season comes to a close, it’s hard to say goodbye to nature’s lushness and...
3 events,
Fall Explorers: Sensational Seeds! (Ages 4-8)
Fall Explorers: Sensational Seeds! (Ages 4-8)
Join our educators this fall for in-person walks to explore nature and experience fall at the Gardens, perfect for ages...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Plants of the Salt Marsh
Plants of the Salt Marsh
Plants of salt marsh communities are uniquely adapted to tolerate and survive the stress of repeated, daily salt-water flooding. Learn...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
2 events,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
Sow for the Future: Native Trees and Shrubs (Field Study)
Sow for the Future: Native Trees and Shrubs (Field Study)
Whether grown from seed or transplanted as seedlings, native woody species can adapt to changing conditions and challenging environments, benefitting urban communities and rural developments or woodlots by filling in empty spaces and protecting and bringing nutrients back to the soil.
1 event,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
3 events,
Introduction to Encaustics
Drip, pour, drag, layer, heat, and incise! Learn the art of encaustic painting in this hands-on workshop using pigmented wax and a heated palette! Through a rich variety of marks and surfaces, explore the various painting techniques of this seductive medium. We will also look to CMBG’s gardens as sources of inspiration.
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
4 events,
Fall Explorers: Five Senses Walk (Ages 4-8)
Fall Explorers: Five Senses Walk (Ages 4-8)
Join our educators this fall for in-person walks to explore nature and experience fall at the Gardens, perfect for ages...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
4 events,
Ecological Landscape Design
Students will examine naturally occurring systems that influence design decisions, practice environmental site analysis, and design conceptual plot plans for a selected site. Instruction will take place online for days one and two. On day three, students will meet at the Gardens to critically examine applied design features that address ecological principles and components.
Budding Naturalist: Wild Edibles of the Fall (Ages 8-14)
Budding Naturalist: Wild Edibles of the Fall (Ages 8-14)
Does your child love nature and want to expand their identification skills? In this program geared toward students ages 8-14,...
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Accessible Cart Tour – Free Wednesdays
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
3 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
4 events,
Highlights Tour
Highlights Tour
Join us during this hour-long tour through our central gardens. Meet by the Kitchen Garden Café and walk through the...
Trees of the Trolls Tour
Trees of the Trolls Tour
The trolls have emerged at the Gardens—and they’re guarding the seeds of Maine's most important tree species, hidden deep in...
Accessible Cart Tour
Accessible Cart Tour
Our one-hour accessible cart tours are led by trained Gardens' docents, rain or shine, on our quiet electric cart. The...
2 events,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
The Art of Forest Bathing: Shinrin Yoku
The Art of Forest Bathing: Shinrin Yoku
Deepening your connection to nature through moving meditation offers enormous benefits for personal well-being. Follow Susan Bickford, forest therapy guide...
