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  • Saturday, July 16, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Spectacular Gardens of Scarborough Tour

    The Scarborough Garden Club announces its Spectacular Gardens of Scarborough Tour, to be held Saturday, July 16, from 9 – 4, rain or shine.  Advance tickets are $15, or $20 day of tour. Call 207-839-4033 for more information, or log on to their website:  http://home.roadrunner.com/~garden/ or e-mail Barbara at gardenz@maine.rr.com. There are 10 gardens this year, none of them have been on previous tours and 6 of them are in one neighborhood in which you can park and walk. Picture below courtesy of Gnome Landscapes.

  • Sunday, July 17, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Bar Harbor Garden Club Garden Tour

    The Bar Harbor Garden Club will host a garden tour on Sunday, July 17, from 10 – 4, beginning on Route 3 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Proceeds go toward club supported causes, such as Beatrix Farrand Society, Butterfly Park, Jr. Enrichment Programs, Student Conservation Camp, Scholarships, Student Conservation Association, civic plantings, Mt Desert Island Land and Garden Preserve and Wild Gardens of Acadia. Tickets are $20 each, and you may obtain additional information at www.barharborgardenclub.com, or by telephoning 207-288-9689. Bar Harbor garden image below from www.gardendesignonline.com.

  • Saturday, July 16, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Private Gardens of the Kennebunks

    The Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County and 10 private homeowners are pleased to announce the 17th Annual “Private Gardens of the Kennebunks” Garden Tour Saturday, July 16th, 2011.  This self-guided tour features 10 unique private home gardens in Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Cape Porpoise area. View the gardens at your own pace, in any order you choose. This tour allows participants to gather landscaping ideas and view perennial and annual plants that may enhance their own gardens.
    The gardens are open from 10am to 4pm on July 16th and will be held rain or shine. Participants are provided with a brochure describing all the gardens and a map that provides the driving directions to each garden. You determine how long you linger at the garden and in what order you visit the gardens. Refreshments will be provided by Lucas on 9 at 62 Mills Road, (Rte 9) in Cape Porpoise.

     

    As a special feature, Honorary Chair, Paul Parent, host of the popular Sunday morning syndicated radio show “The Paul Parent Garden Club” will spend the day at Lucas On 9, sharing his knowledge and gardening tips, as well as answering questions on gardening in New England.  All proceeds from the tour will benefit the prevention programs of the Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County. The Child Abuse Prevention Council’s programs consistently endeavor to educate and support children and their families, professionals that work with children, and the surrounding community. Central to their mission is the promotion of healthy, nurturing relationships between children and adults. This is achieved through education, collaboration and advocacy in established programs and events which foster the well-being of children and families throughout York County.
    Advance Tickets are $15; after July 1 $20. Tickets may be purchased at Focal Point Gardens, 1029 Alfred Rd. (Rt 111), Arundel or by calling the Council office (207) 985-5975, email events@kidsfreetogrow.org or visit  www.kidsfreetogrow.org. Tickets purchased prior to the tour must be exchanged for a map and brochure containing the garden locations the day of the tour or, brochures and maps can be purchased the day of the tour in the parking lot behind Marlows on Main Street in Kennebunk, at Kennebunk High School on Fletcher Street in Kennebunk; Blooms & Heirlooms on Route 1 north in Kennebunk and Carrots & Company Ocean Ave in Kennebunkport. This tour would not be possible without the support of the following sponsors: – Focal Point Gardens, Genest Concrete Works, Inc., Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution, Sold on Betsy and Jim Group at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and Woods Farm Landscaping.

  • Monday, July 11, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Paris Hill Home and Garden Tour

    Come to beautiful Paris Hill, Maine on Monday, July 11, from 10 – 4,  and tour a series of historic, delightful homes and gardens. Many homes are architectural gems with histories going back to the earliest days of Oxford County. All are beautiful and lovingly cared for. Tour homes are within easy walking distance of one another. Cost: $20. Contact Janet Brogan at janetbrogan@roadrunner.com or call  (207) 743-6862 for additional information.

  • Friday, August 13, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Newforest Institute Gardens Tour

    The Belfast Garden Club will present an Open Garden day at the Newforest Institute Gardens on Friday, August 13, at 66 Monroe Highway (Rt. 139), Brooks (Camden), Maine. This educational nonprofit has 8 acres of demonstration vegetable, herb and flower gardens plus an “edible forest” including fruit & nut trees and berries. See a seedling house, cold frames, garlic berm, mushroom logs, terraced gardens that also serve as a water collection system, sheet mulched beds and a 2-position movable greenhouse.  $4 admission fee.

    For more information call: Diane Allmayer-Beck at 338-3105 or Martha Laitin at 948-2815.  You may also log on to www.belfastgardenclub.org.

  • Friday, August 6, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Day

    The Belfast Garden Club invites the public to visit the lusciously green garden of Eden Buron, 101 Congress Street, Belfast, Maine. The garden will be open on Friday, August 6th from 10am-4pm as part of the club’s Open Garden Days.

    The garden was originally started by Buron’s mother, as a street-side perennial flower garden in 1976. New England heritage plants and summer blooms, such as bee balm, phlox, and balloon flower remain and create a colorful carpet under towering trees welcoming visitors to the well-maintained historic 1878 home.

    More recently a new garden landscape project has been undertaken. Buron began as a novice gardener 5 years ago after realizing that the window at her home she spent the most time looking out of was a little window at the back of the shed behind the house. Through this window she could not see other houses or the street, but only the peaceful, country-like view of natural trees and grasses. She decided to turn the shed into a four-season sitting room where she could always enjoy the view. In order to enhance the natural beauty of her backyard she wanted to take out some of the conventional straight lines and lawn, and replace them with an abundance of curves and greenery. She had a challenge ahead of her on her narrow, pie-shaped and very shady lot, but she was up to the task!

    The Buron Garden has obviously been a labor of love, of experimentation, learning, and success. It has undergone a complete transformation from the original “plain-Jane” look. At moments the results feel as refined as an arboretum, and at others feel as magical and wild as a summer’s day. Buron has packed a lot into a very small and shady garden with aplomb!

    Directions to 101 Congress Street, Belfast: From Post Office Square in Belfast go up Main Street hill to a left on Congress Street. Follow Congress Street for several blocks until you reach 101 Congress. House is on the right. Once you get close follow the yellow Open Garden arrows.

    Tickets can be purchased at the garden on the day of the tour for a donation of $4.  Proceeds from the 2010 Open Garden Days will benefit the Belfast Garden Club’s civic beautification projects.  The 5th annual Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Days feature 14 gardens from Belfast to Searsport, Jackson to Orland and in between. One garden per week will be open to the public from 10-4 Fridays, through September 10.  For complete information, log on to www.belfastgardenclub.org.  Photo of the Buron Garden below is by A. Fowler.

  • Wednesday, August 11, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm – Cranberry Island Home, Art & Garden Tour

    This one-day event on Wednesday, August 11, from 9:30 – 4:30, hosted by the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, will include eight stops across this two-mile island. It will feature visits to two nineteenth century sea captain homes, a garden recognized by the Smithsonian, a visit to the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation artist residency program, musical events throughout the day in a church built in the 1860’s, an art show, and access to a mile-long hiking trail leading to the back shore of the island with panoramic views of Acadia. There is a cafe at the Historical Society’s Cranberry House. Tickets for the tour (including round trip ferry, but not lunch) are $35 per person in advance ($20 tour, $15 reduced-fare ferry), or $49 the day of the tour ($25 tour, $24 normal ferry fare.)  For more information and directions call Morrie Newell at 847-732-1777, or log on to www.gcihs.org.  The website also has the ferry schedules to Great Cranberry Island from both Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor (Upper Town Dock and Manset Cranberry Isles Dock).

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  • Saturday, July 24, and Sunday, July 25, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – York County, Maine Open Days

    The Garden Conservancy will sponsor a two day garden tour of six gardens in York County, Maine on Saturday, July 24 and Sunday, July 25 from 10 – 4.  Entry to each garden is $5, and advance tickets are not required.  For complete information, log on to www.gardenconservancy.org.

    Howells-Metz Gardens, 9 Lawrence Lane, Kittery Point, Maine

    The property overlooks the Piscataqua River and Pepperell Cove. The landscaping joins four houses and outbuildings with lawns and gardens that flow into each other. An English conservatory is used for starting seeds for vegetables and annuals.There are rhododendrons and azaleas and shrubs along the houses. Other gardens include a rock garden, a rose garden, borders along a rocky ledge, a vegetable garden with flower borders on two sides for cutting, and an herb garden. In most places daffodils appear in the spring, giving way to day lilies in the summer and annuals (zinnias, asters, dahlias) in the fall. A swimming pool near the beach is filled with salt water from the sea. The family has lived here for some ninety years and currently the houses are occupied by four generations.

    Seapoint, 6 Seapoint Road, Cutts Island, Kittery Point, Maine

    Seapoint is a gardener’s garden overlooking a creek, salt marsh, and the ocean beyond. The property was once part of one of the original saltwater farms on Cutts Island and is nestled alongside of one of the region’s most beautiful wildlife refuges. The garden features an extensive variety of flowering specimen trees, shrubs framed by meandering paths, and intricate stonework.

    Directions:
    About 5 miles from I-95 in Maine, take Exit 2 to Kittery Point. In 0.25 mile enter rotary and exit on Route 236/Kittery Point. Route 236 becomes Route 103. Continue straight across bridge and pass CITGO gas station. In 0.25 mile take fork to right (there are signs for Seapoint). Go straight as road winds around. Pass sign for Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge. Once past sign, garden is at second house on right, #6.

    Braveboat Harbor Farm, 110 Raynes Neck Road, York, Maine (below)

    This garden has been evolving over the last fifty years. It surrounds and complements a Georgian-style stone house. There are formal and informal borders, a vegetable garden, orchards, and collections of various flowering trees and shrubs. Apples and pears are espaliered on the house and along the walls of the formal front garden. Water features include a goldfish pond in an old septic tank, a farm pond with rustic bridge, and the Atlantic Ocean. This treasure is protected by a sculpted arborvitae hedge on the northwest, a mature stand of hickory on the northeast, and an extensive screen of old lilacs on the south. New projects include expanding the collection of magnolias and rhododendrons, introducing hydrangeas, an espaliered pear fence, a woodland walk, a new pond at the north end of the woodland garden, and a summerhouse with views to the pond and the sea.

    Directions:
    Located off Route 103 South and Braveboat Harbor Road to end of Raynes Neck Road. Please park in field below house.

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  • Monday, July 26, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – A Festival of Flowers Garden Tour

    On Monday, July 26, from 11 – 4, seven private gardens on the western side of Mount Desert Island will be open to benefit the Southwest Harbor Public Library.  Call 207-244-7065 for more information.  We have tried to verify the date of the tour, because Monday seems to be an unusual day to hold a tour, but all sources at this point indicate this is correct.  The web site for the Southwest Harbor Public Library unfortunately does not describe the event.

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  • Sunday, July 26, 11 – 4 – A Festival of Flowers

    The Trustees of the Southwest Harbor Public Library invite you to attend a Garden and House Tour “A Festival of Flowers on Mount Desert Island, Maine” Sunday, July 26, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., rain or shine.  For 20 years the library has been bringing the special pleasure of visiting local private gardens to the public, this year featuring six lovely gardens strung along the shore from Southwest Harbor to Manset, to Bass Harbor and up to West Tremont. . Tickets are $25 on day of tour, $20 in advance.  Make check payable to Southwest Harbor Public Library and mail to PO Box 157, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679.  Call the Library at 207-244-7065 for more information and directions, or log on  to www.swharbor.lib.me.us.

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