Here are a few nice reasons to visit the Farmers’ Market in Camden.
It’s located behind the Knox Mill, in downtown Camden, every Saturday, 9 – Noon, through October 30, and every Wednesday, 3:30 – 6 pm, through September 29.
You’ll find lots of farmers’ markets all over Maine. Our growing season is short, but our plates are full.
We have mere moments until it’s officially summer, 2010, so dig out the croquet set and squeeze the lemonade.
Here’s a list of tours and events to get your gardening inspiration reved up this summer. Please check back for updates. And if you know of others, or spot any errors, please note them in the comments below. Thanks! It’s going to be a very pretty summer.
June 18, Bangor, Liberty Garden Tour — Peonies.
June 18-19 – Stonington, 9th Annual Lupine Festival & Evergreen Garden Club Private Garden Tour – (pdf) (207) 563-4800.
Otisfield, McLaughlin Gardens with a View — this schedule hasn’t been posted yet. But it may be found at this link when it is.
July 8, Damariscotta, Miles Memorial Hospital League House and Garden Tour, 9 am – 4:30 pm, $25, 207 790-2009, $25.
July 11, Gardens in the Watershed, 10 am – 5 pm, rain or shine. (Photos from previous year.)
July 15 & 16, Camden House & Garden Tour, which this year also includes a Decorator Show House featuring designers from the area, and from away, 9:30 am – 4 pm, $25 advance, $30 day of tour, 207-236-8946. (2bnMaine postings from last year — More than flowers. – Fish out of water.)
July 24, MDI, The Garden Club of Mount Desert Open Garden Day, rain or shine, 10am – 4 pm.
July 26, Sunday,11 am – 4 pm - Southwest Harbor House & Garden Tour, benefiting the library – ‘featuring six lovely gardens strung along the shore from Southwest Harbor to Manset, to Bass Harbor and up to West Tremont.’
July 29, Castine, Castine House & Garden Tour, “Under the Elms and By the Sea” presented by the Castine Historical Society.
August 11, Cranberry Island Home, Art & Garden Tour — 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.) From their website — There will be eight stops on the tour:
All summer – Belfast Friday Garden Tours, 10 am – 5 pm, $3 donation per garden.
All summer — Camden, Garden Talks at Merryspring.
All summer — Boothbay, Maine Botanical Gardens Blog covers all their activities.
All summer — Garden Club Federation of Maine — Visiting Gardens & Tours.
Once the lupines appear, you can be sure that summer’s spreading it’s roots.
And is next to bloom.
Shot a blooming crabapple and got a blackfly. Can you spot it?
In Maine, winter hasn’t really ended until the skiers fade, and the daffodils explode. Looks like we’re just about there.
Just across the Rockport harbor from this, if you’re lucky, you just might stumble upon this wee bit of a garden.
Summer, 2009.
Spring, 2009.
A big thank you to the unknown, but talented, gardener.
Within the gorgeous gardens on Maine’s garden tours, the architecture, art, history, and people, can amaze as well.
Here are just a few glimpses of the Camden Garden Tour on a very overcast, and sometimes drippy, last Thursday. (Getting used to a new camera.)
Fantastic fish swim on the boathouse of the Patti & Bruce Westphal’s Garden on Rockport Harbor. The home was filled with a very amusing folk art collection that expanded into the garden.
Andre the Seal loved visiting this lobsterman’s house. Fish (the edible variety) were of interest to him as well.
Nancy & Ben Allen’s lovely renovated Victorian home and overflowing perennial garden in Lincolnville.
The fences at the Berwick Hill in Rockport are as classic as the gardens.
The pool at Berwick Hill surrounded by luscious flora at the home of Dyke Messler & Rickey Celentano.
Apologies for spelling, grammar and context errors recently. Rushing too much is the excuse.
The myth about the symbiotic relationship between the peony and the ant is not true. The peony does not depend on the ant to bloom. The ant is merely feasting on the sweet nectar served up by the gracious peony. Go to Leslie Land’s blog to learn more about peonies.
If you look closely, you’ll see the ants on other flowers as well.
Spring’s unfurling, summer’s just around the corner.
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