Calendar of Garden Events
Garden happenings, exhibits, and special events can be found on the calendar below.
Calendar of Events
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2 events,
Spring Explorations: Grow a Garden with Us! (Ages 4-10)
Does your child love to grow things and explore the outdoors? Interested in learning how to garden as a family? Join us as we combine gardening and learning in a fun new program for homeschoolers and remote/hybrid learners. This parent-led program will guide participants ages 4-10 through growing a garden through explorations and investigations at the Gardens, plus lessons, games, and experiments at home. Lessons combine gardening with science, math, English, art, social studies, and history. Beginning the week of May 3, participants can visit the Visitor Center to pick up their first week’s activities and supplies (packed in accordance with CDC guidelines for COVID safety). Every week after, new activities will be made available each Monday for a total of six weeks. Families are welcome to join the program at any time this spring. For further essential program information before registering, click Learn More.
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...
2 events,
Young Birders Club (Ages 10-18)
Young Birders Club (Ages 10-18)
Inviting all young and aspiring birders to join us for our first ever Gardens birding club! Youth ages 10 and up can join our resident birders every other week this spring to identify birds migrating through Maine as well as those spending the season nesting and raising their young here. For further essential program information before registering, click Learn More.
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...
3 events,
Lincoln County Resident Days
Lincoln County residents get free admission on the first Wednesday of the month throughout the regular season. Advance registration is...
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,
Plein Air Days
Artists may enter the Gardens free of charge and set up their easels anywhere that doesn't disrupt traffic, block paths,...
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...
3 events,
Gardening with Herbs
Gardening with Herbs
There’s something powerful about herbs; whether it’s their scent, taste, or long therapeutic history, growing them successfully at home is...
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...
3 events,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
Plant ID in the Garden: Shade Garden Perennials
Plant ID in the Garden: Shade Garden Perennials
For shade gardens, a wide variety of planting options exist featuring amazing texture, foliar color, and bright floral accents. In...
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...
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...
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,
Planting a Vertical Garden | SOLD OUT
Planting a Vertical Garden | SOLD OUT
Let’s grow up! In this fun, innovative container-garden class, we’ll plant mini vertical gardens that can be mounted on a...
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...
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...
3 events,
Maintaining Creative Energy in Photography
Maintaining Creative Energy in Photography
This is the second of three interactive lectures by renowned photographer Ron Rosenstock. Students may take just one or all three; each program lasts approximately 50 minutes with a Q&A period to follow. In this lecture, Ron will cover how photographers can maintain and continue creative efforts when circumstances (and plans) change. He will share a variety of photographic subjects and projects that are always available for photographers to explore.
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,
Young Birders Club (Ages 10-18)
Young Birders Club (Ages 10-18)
Inviting all young and aspiring birders to join us for our first ever Gardens birding club! Youth ages 10 and up can join our resident birders every other week this spring to identify birds migrating through Maine as well as those spending the season nesting and raising their young here. For further essential program information before registering, click Learn More.
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...
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...
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,
Container Garden Inspirations: Elements and Sizes
Container Garden Inspirations: Elements and Sizes
Garden designer Jen Dunlap creates dynamic and texturally driven designs that build upon traditional container gardens. Join her on a...
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...
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,
Father’s Day at the Gardens
Celebrate Dad with a day out! On June 20, we’re offering free admission for all fathers throughout the day. No...
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,
Monitoring Maine’s Forest Health
Monitoring Maine’s Forest Health
Our heritage trees of Maine are under a great amount of stress, dealing with inclement weather and infestations of pests. Is there anything we can do to help preserve and support these species? Come take a walk through CMBG with forest pathologists and entomologists from the State of Maine, Aaron Bergdahl, Colleen Teerling, and Tom Schmeelk, to learn more about the health of Maine’s forests and what a landowner or concerned steward can do to help.
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,
Plant ID in the Garden: Sun Garden Perennials
Plant ID in the Garden: Sun Garden Perennials
While sun gardens tend to feature lots of color, there’s more to know about sun-loving perennials: their seasonal performance, structural...
Drawing and Painting Monarch Butterflies and Milkweed
Drawing and Painting Monarch Butterflies and Milkweed
Tuesday and Thursday, June 22 and 24 | This two-day workshop focuses on the monarch butterfly's life cycle in symbiotic relationship to its host plant, milkweed. Depict flight by learning basic butterfly anatomy and wing positioning. Understand basic metamorphosis and how the butterfly interacts in the pollination process. Color application can be in watercolor and/or colored pencil. All levels welcome!
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...
3 events,
Natural Communities of Maine
Natural Communities of Maine
In this two-day introduction to the natural communities of Maine, ecologist Ted Elliman will acquaint students with several of Maine’s characteristic plant communities, their defining physical environments, and the natural processes affecting them.
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...
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,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
Artful and Functional Landscape Structures, Field Study
Artful and Functional Landscape Structures, Field Study
From arbors to pergolas, toolsheds to tea-houses, outdoor landscape structures can add function and aesthetic interest to any property. Karl...
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,
CMBG Summer Camp Club: Animal Kingdom (Ages 4-9)
CMBG’s Summer Camp Club is back! Starting any day the week of June 28, campers can pick-up their first week of “Animal Kingdom” camp activities exploring the relationships between the flora and fauna of Maine. A new week of activities will be made available each Monday for a total of four weeks. Activities will include secret stashes, scavenger hunts, games, experiments, art projects, recipes and more. Campers will be invited to attend small-group outdoor learning sessions with CMBG staff throughout the summer based on camp themes. Each camper will receive a special bag to keep filled with tools for investigation and discovery as well as a camp hat. Families who sign up a child for both sessions of Summer Camp Club (“Animal Kingdom” and “Minibeasts!”), will receive a 15% discount at checkout. For further essential program information before registering, click Learn More.
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,
Summer Naturalist: Forest Bathing (Ages 10-17)
Summer Naturalist: Forest Bathing (Ages 10-17)
"Forest bathing" is the act of using your senses to take in your surroundings while slowly moving through the woods. Enhance your happiness, creativity, and wellbeing during this easy walk that covers less than one mile in 1 hour.
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...
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 – 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...
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,
Boothbay Resident Days
Boothbay residents get free admission on weekends throughout the regular season. Advance registration is required this year; please call to...
