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Category: Maine

  • Sunday, August 10, 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Down to Earth: A How-To Tour of the Hamilton House Gardens

    Learn the inside scoop on the day-to-day work of maintaining the Hamilton House gardens from the gardeners themselves while you pick up valuable tips to implement in your own garden. Gardeners Mimi Demers and Kathy Gray share their knowledge and experiences, touching on a variety of how-to topics including buying plant material, feeding and fertilizing, favorite tools, dealing with bugs, and more. The program will take place Sunday, August 10, from 10:30 – 11:30 at Hamilton House, 40 Vaughan’s Lane, South Berwick, Maine, and is sponsored by Historic New England. Free to HNE Garden and Landscape members, $8 to Historic New England members, and $15 to nonmembers.

    Registration is required. Please call 207-384-2454 for more information, or register online at http://shop.historicnewengland.org/p-6569-down-to-earth-a-how-to-tour-of-the-hamilton-house-gardens.aspx.

  • Wednesday, September 3 – Thursday, September 4 – Coastal Maine Overnight Trip

    Go on a mini-vacation with Tower Hill Botanic Garden to the Coast of Maine, September 3 – 4! Spend 2 full days, complete with most meals and a comfortable night’s lodging, traveling via luxury motor coach to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. This tour will visit Cabbage Island for a traditional clam bake dinner and spend the night at Cap’n Fish’s Waterfront Inn on the harbor. On day two, visit Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, complete with a guided tour and lunch. On the way home the tour stops at Pineland Farms, a wonderful public garden and farm market (pictured below.) Reservation deadline August 3. Tower Hill member price $325, nonmember $425, per person double occupancy. Single supplement $50. Register by clicking HERE.

  • Friday, May 16 – Sunday, May 18 – Northern New England Home, Garden and Flower Show

    Celebrate the arrival of spring with us at the 11th Annual Home Garden Flower Show at Fryeburg Fairgrounds, May 16, 17 & 18, 2014 with great exhibitors, garden centers and awesome fair food!

    Always a fun and lively event, this show brings together more than 300 regional home and home related products and services. Quality merchandise from regional artists and artisans, garden centers, product demonstrations, and expert advice from the home and garden pros all add to this popular family event. The spring show was recently chosen as one of the Top Twenty events in Maine by Yankee Magazine.

    Our Meet the Chefs Cooking Series features guest chefs from some of the most popular kitchens in Maine and New Hampshire. Audiences pack the studio kitchen to watch the chefs prepare culinary delights and to sample the results.

    Home and garden related seminars offer cutting-edge information to attendees on eco-friendly and green products and services.

    Garden marketplaces offer a huge assortment of plants, shrubs, flowers and garden supplies and seedlings all zone-hardy and all ready to go!

    Celebrity guests and lots of surprises are planned for the show and we encourage the public to visit our website often for updates. $9 admission for adults, ages 6 – 16 $4, children under 6 free. Complete hours and details can be found at www.homegardenflowershow.com.

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  • Sunday, August 18, 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Down to Earth: a how-to tour

    Learn the inside scoop on the day-to-day work of maintaining the gardens at Hamilton House, and pick up valuable tips to implement in your own garden, at this Sunday, August 18 class sponsored by Historic New England at Hamilton House, 40 Vaughan’s Lane in South Berwick, Maine. Gardeners Mimi Demers and Kathy Gray share their knowledge and experiences, touching on a variety of how-to topics including buying plant material, feeding and fertilizing, favorite tools, dealing with bugs, and more. $15 fee.  Register at www.historicnewengland.org, or call 207-384-2454.

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  • Thursday, August 8, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Penobscot River Restoration

    Join the Ecological Landscaping Association and the Society for Ecological Restoration – New England Chapter on Thursday, August 8, from 10 – 4, for a program entitled Penobscot River Restoration: Great Works and Veazie Dam Removals, and Sedgeunkedunk Steam Restoration. (Someone should tell the ELA to shorten those title names!)  The Penobscot River Restoration Project is an unprecedented collaborative effort that will rebalance fisheries restoration with hydropower production in the largest watershed within Maine, and result in the ecological restoration on the Penobscot River.  Major partners in the project include hydropower companies, federal, state and tribal governments, the Penobscot River Restoration Trust, and conservation groups.  After several years and considerable work, the Penobscot Trust purchased thre dams from the PPL Corporation (the hydropower company) in order to remove the two most seaward dams – Great Works and Veazie – and to pursue a fish bypass around the Howland dam.  As part of the arrangement, PPL Corporation received approval to increase generation at six existing dams and will improve fish passage at four additional dams.  Complete information on this program may be found at http://www.ecolandscaping.org//srv/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Penobscot-Restoration-Eco-tour-Flier.pdf.  To register, call 617-436-5838, or register on line at https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010441.

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  • Saturday, July 6, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm – 2nd Annual Books in Bloom Tour

    Five unique and striking gardens on the picturesque Schoodic Peninsula will be open for you to explore and enjoy, in the 2nd Annual Books in Bloom Tour on Saturday, July 6 from 11 to 3, sponsored by the Winter Harbor Public Library, pictured below. Complete details are available at www.winterharbor.lib.me.us.  This is a rain or shine event.

    Tickets are $20 each and may be purchased at the library, or reservations made by calling the library 207-963-7556 or the organizers 207-963-4113.  The Library is located at Channing Chapel, 18 Chapel Lane in Winter Harbor, Maine.

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  • Sunday, July 14, 10:00 am – Gardens in the Watershed Tour

    Each year, The Georges River Land Trust in Rockland, Maine, hosts an immensely popular Gardens in the Watershed tour in a different section of the Georges River watershed to give visitors a sense of the diversity and beauty of the landscapes from Montville to Port Clyde, and to explore regions they may have never visited.

    The tour in 2013 is the 22nd and it features seven outstanding gardens in the upper watershed of the St. George River, including a working farm, nursery, sunflowers business, and geranium mail order business.

    In addition to enjoying the gorgeous gardens, the day includes short talks on topics related to gardening, and a chance to meet the garden owners. Another element of the event is a raffle offering gift certificates donated by local nurseries, florists, farms, and artisans. The tour is the primary fundraising event of the Land Trust. The proceeds from the tour enable us to work with landowners to honor their legacy of land, create and maintain the Georges Highland Path, and offer environmental education and outdoor experiences to the public. Tour tickets are $25 in advance, $28 on the day of the tour, and there is a $10 lunch option, all of which can be ordered on line at www.georgesriver.org/gardens-in-the-watershed-tour/.

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  • Sundays, May 26 – July 28, 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm – Open Gardens in York, Maine

    The Old York Garden Club will sponsor a series of Open Garden Days on Sundays, beginning May 26 and ending July 28, from 12 – 4, rain or shine.  The cost is $4 per garden, payable at the garden.  The start location is 200 US Route 1 in York.  For more information visit www.oldyorkgardenclub.org.

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  • Saturday, June 1 and Saturday, June 8, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm – Spring Garden Tour in Northeast Harbor, Maine

    The Spring Garden Tour at Waters Edge, 32 Sargeant Drive, Northeast Harbor, Maine (the WP Stewart Estate) features the spectacular blooms of spring in one of the premier, oceanfront gardens in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Take in expansive views across Somes Sound and of the mountains in Acadia National Park. Tickets are $15. Each year the tour proceeds benefit a different local charity – this year the Mount Desert Island YMCA is the host. The gates are open from 9am – 3pm. Yoga will be offered in the garden from 8am – 9am for $25, which also includes the garden tour ticket. Limited space in yoga class. To purchase tickets in advance, contact the Mount Desert Island YMCA at 207-288-3511. For more information, contact Kim O’Brien at  kim@mdiymca.org.  The tour will be held on two successive Saturdays, June 1 and June 8, rain or shine.

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  • Sunday, August 19, 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Down to Earth: A How-To Tour of the Hamilton House Gardens

    Learn the inside scoop on the day-to-day work of maintaining Historic New England’s Hamilton House gardens from the gardeners themselves while you pick up valuable tips to implement in your own garden. Gardeners Mimi Demers and Kathy Gray share their knowledge and experiences, touching on a variety of how-to topics including buying plant material, feeding and fertilizing, favorite tools, dealing with bugs, and more.

    Registration is required. Address: 40 Vaughan’s Lane in South Berwick, Maine. Please call 207-384-2454 for more information.  Cost: Free to Historic New England Garden and Landscape Members, $8 Historic New England members, $15 nonmembers.