Coastal Maine Botanical Garden 6.8.26

When I decide to stay in Maine on my day’s off, I watch the weather and pick a good day to wander around the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. I need to see what has come into bloom since my last visit!!

I headed right for the forest walk via the Haney Hillside Garden and found a beautiful clump of Tiarella in full bloom.

Further down the hillside in the Meditation Garden I noticed the delicate little flowers of Redvein Enkianthus brushing against my cheek!

At the bottom of the hillside, I took a left and walked along the Huckleberry Cove trail. I had not walked in this direction before and was surprised to see the paintings displayed intermittently along the trail. There was a sign with a QR code so you could access more information about the display but my cell service was too light to bring up the website.

I walked as far as Huckleberry Cove and turned around.

I walked back up to the more manicured garden area via the Backwoods Trail. This brought me by one of the trolls I had not yet discovered – Lilja, who holds the scent of the Fowers of the tree.

I kept going to the Rhododendron Garden to see what was putting on a display right now. Some very exotic-looking rhodendrons along side some good ole stand-bys.

On my way back to the entrance to the garden, I came across this beautiful peony, a lovely Viburnum plicatum tomentosum and a magnificent Calycanthus “Harlage Wine.”