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:
- A nineteenth century sea captain’s home
- A garden that is part of the Archives of American Gardens of the Smithsonian Institute
- The Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, a beautiful compound of buildings hosting an artist residency program
- Musical events throughout the day at the Congregational Church
- Cranberry House and its Preble-Marr Historical Museum
- An Art Show throughout the day at Cranberry House
- A mile-long hiking trail leading to Cranberry Island’s magnificent back shore
- Lunch available at the café at Cranberry House
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.
