Here's a sneak peek at the Boothbay Region Garden Club's July 25th Home and Garden Tour.

You'll want to know more, but that will come later. Start making your plans now to visit these very…

For bees, enkianthus (“EN-key-AN-thus”) bushes now offer a late spring treat. From where I sit, bumblebees are the biggest fans, scrambling over the clusters or racemes of small,…

Eight-foot, crimson-topped poinsettias formed a hedge by the restaurant.

We were enjoying a late-winter cruise in the Caribbean and had come ashore…

How many times have your driven by Miss Piggy on Route 27 in Boothbay on your way out of town and noticed the big garden just across the street?…

“I’m way behind,” Nancy groaned. “By this time, I thought I’d have the garden all planted.”

In 2014, there’s been plenty of rain to keep most of us out…

Not all insects are garden villains.

According to the National Garden Bureau, besides honeybees and butterflies, one finds garden heroes.  Six of…

A meadow of Dame’s Rocket adorns the backyard of a house on Eastern Avenue in late May. It is a sight to behold, from all viewpoints.

Last summer, the community garden at the Rittall Farm on Route 27 produced great quantities of carrots, beans, potatoes, squash and more.

Most produce was contributed to the food pantry with…

A single bottle showed Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward a way to preserve growing plants.

In London, the 19th century…

Like all great things, the upcoming feature on artists Carlton and Joan Plummer began with an idea. And, in this case, an idea contained in a letter.

Through winter, many gardeners created plant lists for this season.

Now, more catalogs filled with enticing new growing things …

At this time of year, many Maine foragers think of fiddleheads.

These are the beginnings of many kinds of ferns. Somehow, …

The May 14 meeting of the Boothbay Region Garden Club will feature guest speaker Lisa Colburn, author of “The Maine Garden Journal — Insider secrets from Maine people who love to put their hands…

Signs of spring continue to appear throughout the Gardens. The horticulture staff has spread the mulch, the gift shop staff has stocked the shelves, and…

Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District holds its Spring Plant Sale, Backyard Conservation Sale & Garden Fair at Union Fairgrounds on Saturday, May 3 from 9 a.m. to…

One day, spring trudges out of mud, the next, it dances.

Quickly, look up at the rise above Oak Street at the patch of blue squills, or scilla. Planted years ago, the tiny flowers have…

After reading in our column about how robins often overwinter in Maine (and thereby shattering some folks’ illusions of winter’s end in, say, January) we were asked recently about which species we…

Join the Lincoln County Composting Committee and composting guru, Mark King from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) at Treats in…

Elizabeth Stanley will be the featured speaker at the April 9 meeting of the Boothbay Region Garden Club.

…

To some gardeners, weeds are the outcasts of plant society.

To others, weeds can be a matter of taste.

Ox-eye daisies, which hitchhiked to the New World, probably in the hay used as…

Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) was recently named the 2014 Maine Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year. The award acknowledges not only HVNC’s commitment to…

Coastal Enterprises, a nonprofit community development organization, with the support of Maine State Housing Authority, will offer the First-Time…

Come and join local artist Kerry Rodriguez as she teaches “Beginning and Intermediate Botanical Illustration” through Central Lincoln County Adult Education. The six-week course begins Wednesday,…

Gardening is a wide (excuse the expression) field.

Apart from the digging and raking, the planting and watering, the weeding, picking, harvesting, and taking pleasure in the resulting beauty…

Coastal Enterprises, a nonprofit community development organization, with the support of Maine State Housing Authority, will offer the first-time…

The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant will conduct training programs on the Signs of the Seasons Program.

The art and science of making goat milk soap will be the topic of the March 12 meeting of the Boothbay Region Garden Club. Amy Hoinsky, a noted…

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has been recognized as a 2014 “Editors’ Choice Home & Garden Award” winner in Yankee Magazine’s March/April issue, on newsstands…

Don’t miss out on the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s Spring Plant Sale.

Our list includes 44 new selections available for preorder and cash and carry on Saturday and…

At the February 6 Community School District meeting, the trustees voted to approve $700 in funding toward the creation of a forest garden behind the high school tennis courts.

The garden was…

Reports of fruit-eating birds…

Lori Demers, better known as “Mama D,” will be featured at the February 12 meeting of the Boothbay Region Garden Club. Mama D’s is a popular…

“Isn’t this great!” crowed my new friend, Ellie. She was showing me around the cottage she and her husband had just acquired.

Naturally, we visited the gardens. Above the house blazed a…

CAMDEN — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection spent the last week digging trenches around a home on Ames Terrace and removing contaminated dirt after a seal broke on an outdoor oil…

This morning, two house plants took a shower with me.

An orchid and a clementine plant were looking dried-out from lack of humidity. Heated winter air does that to some plants.

I stood…

The Chewonki Foundation's Keith Crowley knows some people picture bats as mice with wings. But they're far from rodents, and also far from a lot of other myths that dog them.

Snow was predicted.

Several friends were alarmed by the thought.

“What will happen to the plants in the garden?” young Emily asked.

Not much; the snow would cover the ground and…

Residents of Maine can ring in the New Year with 10 free flowering trees by joining the Arbor Day Foundation any time during January 2014.

…

Some years ago, Sandy and John planned a broad berm between a curving road and their new hillside house.

What is a berm?

On behalf of the Boothbay Region Garden Club, I would like to thank community members, the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce, Opera House staff, Boothbay…

As “The Christmas Waltz” goes, it’s that time of year. CMBG has one program and one event coming up before the end of the year, and both are inspired by the Christmas season. In addition, free…

This November, riding along back roads, I noticed plant pods standing tall among wind-battered grasses. What were they?

At home, I searched the computer for “pods.” Most references were for…

East Boothbay residents Susan Lloyd and her husband Tom Frields are two retired FBI agents with a secret. Their home is where John and Jackie Kennedy first met.

Lloyd and Frields bought…

Boothbay Region Garden Club’s Vice President Mimi O’Neill, left, presents the wreaths to adorn the…

There’s plenty to like about November at the Gardens. For one thing, admission is free this time of year, right up until mid-April. The gardens, which are still in harvest mode, also have “…

“I wanted to give you some garlic,” said Corny. “But a moose trod on my crop.”

Earlier, I’d asked a farmer for lettuce. “Here’s the last head,” he offered. “A moose came by and stepped on my…

Dormant is a word in every gardener’s vocabulary, but there never seems to be a truly dormant period at the Gardens. Not only do planning, ordering…

On October 17, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Executive Director William Cullina was in Wellesley, Mass., to receive the George Robert White Medal…

In settler days, most farmers planted apple trees.

They were focused on apples to…