Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden:
Seal Harbor, ME (207)276-3330
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This magnificent unforgetable private garden, designed by Beatrix Farrand
for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, requires reservations.
Asticou Azalea Garden: Seal
Harbor and Peabody Drive, Northeast Harbor,
Mt. Desert Island, ME 04662.
- This
2.3 acre garden, created by a self-taught landscape designer and owner of the
Asticou Inn to preserve for Mt. Desert Island the plants from the Beatrix
Farrand estate, displays over 20 varieties of azaleas in a setting that includes
a stream, an iris-bordered pond and a Japanese meditation garden.
Bartlett Maine Estate Winery Gardens:
Off Route 1, Box 598,
Gouldsboro, ME 04607 (207)546-2408.
- This winery, creating
wines from regional fruits such as pears, apples, blueberries and raspberries,
also features gardens.
Beatrix
Farrand Garden at College of the Atlantic: Near Kaelber Hall, Route 3,
Bar
Harbor, ME 04609(207)288-5015.
- A garden with a view of Frenchman's Bay has been
recreated from a rose garden designed by Beatrix Farrand. Completed in 1929, the
now restored garden features a geometric parterre and a border of trees and
hedges.
Blaine House Gardens:
Governor's Mansion, Corner of State and Capitol Streets,
Augusta, ME
(207)662-6363.
- This garden at the Governor's Mansion was designed in 1920 and
has recently been completed.
Castine Inn
Garden: Main Street,
Castine, ME 04421 (207)326-4365.
- An operating inn. This
operating inn features lovely gardens, including a rose crescent.
Celia Thaxter's
Garden: Appledore Island,
Isle of Shoals, ME 03908 (607)255-3717 (Shoals
Marine Laboratory).
- This 19th century colorful cottage garden has been recreated
using Celia Thaxter's book, an Island Garden, and its Childe Hassam
illustrations.
Christina's Garden at the Olson House: Hathorn Point Road,
Cushing, ME
(207)354-0102.
- The Olson house is pictured in Andrew Wyeth's famous painting
"Christina's World".
Coastal Maine
Botanical Gardens: Barters Island Road, P.O. Box 234,
Boothbay, ME 04537
(207)633-4333.
- Spectacular shoreline on a tidal river and a beautiful, bold landscape create this
unique place of beauty. Located on 270 acres, the Garden includes a sensory garden, children’s garden,
rhododendron garden, meditation garden, miles of woodland trails, and even a dock for water access.
Colonel Black Mansion Formal Gardens: Route 172 (Surry Road),
Ellsworth, ME
(207)667-8671.
- The 300 acre former estate features a white pillared brick
mansion and formal gardens nestled between the house and the carriage barn.
Planted in 1903, the gardens were restored in the 1920s and 1930s with the
assistance of Beatrix Farrand. A clipped lilac hedge encloses the tea lawn and
formal garden.
Ecotat:
Route 2 and Annis Road,
Hermon, ME (207)848-3485.
- Ecotat, located on 91 acres,
features 55 gardens, 280 varieties of trees, 1500 varieties of perennials, and
abundant birds and wildlife.
Gardens of Vesper Hill-Children's Chapel: Off
Calderwood Lane,
Rockport, ME.
- This open air chapel with a spectacular view of
Penobscot Bay is surrounded by lawns and formal gardens.
Guild Victorian
Garden at the Farnsworth Art Museum: 19 Elm Street,
Rockland, ME 04841
(207)596-6457.
- The Farnsworth Homestead, with its Greek Revival exterior and
lavish high Victorian interior, features a Victorian Garden.
Hamilton House Grounds:
40 Vaughan's Lane,
South Berwick, ME 03908 (207)384-2454.
- The 1787 Hamilton
House 33 acres of grounds overlook the Salmon Falls River and include remnants
of an early 20th-century garden, now renovated.
Harraseeket Inn Gardens: 162 Main
Street,
Freeport, ME (207)865-9377 or (800)342-6423.
- Perennial gardens ornament
the grounds of this operating inn.
Historic Conway Homestead and
Museum: Route 1 and Conway Road,
Camden, ME (207)236-2257.
- The Camden
Garden Club landscaped the grounds of this 1770 house with native plant
materials common in New England before 1860. The farmstead buildings surround an
historic herb garden.
Lyle
E. Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden and Research Center : University of
Maine, 5772 Deering Hall,
Orono, ME 04469-5722 (207)581-2948.
- This 6.5 hectare
facility houses a research center and the Littlefield Garden. The Garden
displays over 2,500 woody and herbaceous plants with special collections of
crabapples (210 varieties), lilacs (180 varieties), rhododendrons (150
varieties), and magnolias (35 varieties). The garden has been renovated over the
past 10 years.
Maine Cottage
Garden: RR 1, Box 295, Fredericks Rd.,
Strong, ME 04983 (207)684-3400.
- This
two acre privately-owned but generously shared cottage-style garden features
Zone 4 perennials and shrubs that survive (and thrive) in -30 degree winter
temperatures. This "Garden of Survivors" is arranged in islands, borders,
courtyard, and naturalistic settings extending from the house, throughout an old
apple orchard, to the forest's edge.
Marrett House Garden:
Route 25,
Standish, ME 04084 (207)642-3032.
- An extensive perennial garden
created by the Marrett sisters in the 1920s and 1930s has been restored at this
historic home.
McLaughlin Garden:
97 Main Street, P.O. Box 16,
South Paris, ME 04281 (207)743-8820.
- A sixty
year labor of love by the "Dean of Maine Gardeners", this Garden features
collections of hostas, daylilies, astilbes, iris, phlox, sedum, cimicifuga,
sempervivums and over 200 lilacs, as well as Maine wildflowers and ferns. The
setting is a century old farmstead with massive stone walls and a barn.
Merryspring Nature Park: Merryspring
Park, end of Conway Rd. (off U.S. Hwy. 1), P.O. Box 893,
Camden, ME 04843,
(207)236-2239.
- This 66 acre nature preserve features indigenous plants in herb,
lily, hosta, Bird and Bees/Winter Color, rose and perennial gardens, as well as
fields of wildflowers, the 10 acre Kitty Todd Arboretum, and walkways and
trails.
Nickels-Sortwell House Gardens and Sunken Garden: Main Street,
Wiscasset,
ME.
- The grounds this historic home, landscaped in 1926 with period gardens, are
being restored. The
Sunken Garden
was created by Frances Sortwell on the foundation of a burned house.
Perkins Arboretum:
Colby College, Mayflower Hill Drive,
Waterville, ME 04901 (207)872-3000.
- Named
after a professor who was so enthusiastic he would sprint to the outdoor
classroom, leaving students gasping behind, the Arboretum is a designated
national wildlife refuge.
Pine Tree
State Arboretum: 153 Hospital Street, P.O. Box 344,
Augusta, ME 04332-0344
(207)621-0031. T
- his 224 acre Arboretum displays over 200 labeled species of
trees and shrubs with special plantings of Hosta, Azaleas and Rhododendrons,
Lilacs, Green Ash, Urban & Community Forests, the Governor's Grove White Pine,
an Antique Maine Apple Orchard, "Space Trees" (from seed that traveled on the
Space Shuttle), and a Rock Garden.
Roger Clapp Greenhouse: University of Maine,
Orono, ME
- This 10,000 square
foot glass greenhouse maintains a permanent teaching collection of over 200
species of tropical and desert plant species from throughout the world,
including a extensive collection of cacti and succulents.
Rogers Farm:
University of Maine Research Farm, Bennoch Rd.,
Stillwater, ME 04468 (207)
942-7396 or (800) 287-1485 (in Maine).
- The 1 acre Master Gardener Demonstration
Garden includes extensive plantings of annual flowers, vegetables and herbs as
well as special plantings such as the Blooms of Bressingham (English
perennials), Proven Winners, an All-America Selections Display Garden, trial
gardens of geraniums and impatiens, a white garden, a children's garden, a small
fruits garden and a perennial border.
The Rose Circle,
Deering Oaks Park:
State Street,
Portland, ME (207)874-8793.
- This 51 acre city park includes an
award-winning rose garden with more than 600 species of roses.
St. Anthony's
Monastery Grounds and Gardens: Beach Ave.,
Kennebunkport, ME (207)967-2011.
- This former estate with an elegant Tudor House, purchased by Lithuanian
Franciscans, features an English park ornamented with gardens and shrines.
(Gardens at)Shady Glen Nursery; 251 Main Street,
Freeport, ME 04032 (207)423-5092
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This retail nursery showcases extensive shade gardens beneath the pines, a sunny English style border, an extensive iris
collection, hosta garden, lily bed, ornamental grass garden, an arid garden, vegetable gardens and a formal garden with
production beds. The gardens feature hard to find and some rare perennials, Japanese imports, including unusual
Jack-in-the pulpits, primrose, and much more.
The Stone House:
642 Wolfe's Neck Road,
Freeport, Maine 04032 (207)780-5961.
- The Wolfe's Neck
Botanical Society maintains the flower beds and Stone House gardens in this
former estate, how a University of Southern Maine conference center and
demonstration center for organic gardening.
Sunnyside Gardens: 500 N. Parish Road,
Turner, ME 04282 (207)212-9256.
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Adjoining a 1800's farmhouse, this public garden and perennial nursery
showcases extensive English style display gardens including the Front
Border, the Banking Garden, the Grey Garden, the Sedum Garden, the
Eyeball Garden, the Weeping Cherry Tree Garden, the Sumac Garden, the
Fence Border, the White Garden, the Pink Garden, the Fairy Garden, the
Stream Garden the Big Plant Garden, and the Blue Bottle Garden. Call to
arrange for English tea and scones with jam and chantilly cream.
Thuya Lodge and Gardens
and
Asticous Azalea Garden and
Asticou
Terraces: Peabody Drive, Northeast Harbor,
Mount Desert Island, ME 04662
(207)276-5130.
- This 1.5 acre garden, also having received plants from Beatrix
Farrand's estate (see Asticou Azalea Garden above), is arranged as two long,
color arranged, perennial borders surrounded by woodland. 110 varieties are
displayed over the 128 foot length.
Viles Arboretum: 153 Hospital Street,
Augusta, ME 04535 (207)626-7989.
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This 224 acre arboretum with a history of farming use as occupational therapy and healthy exercise for patients of a state hospital, began
its transformation to an arboretum by the Maine Forest Service in 1981. Its mission now is to provide opportunities for education, recreation, and inspiration
through nature, interpretive materials, exhibits, programs and events, and a trail system designed for people of all ages. 20 botanical collections including the largest hosta collection in Maine,
six miles of trails, and largest public display of art sculpture in Maine.
Features include the Community Forestry Collection, the
Conifer Collection, the Chestnut Collection, The Governors' Grove, the DAR Collection, the Lilac Collection, Native Plant Colleciton, a
Rock Garden and a Hosta Garden. The Arboretum is open sun-up to sun-down and there is no admission fee.
Wadsworth Longfellow House: 485 Congress Street,
Portland, ME 04101
(207)774-1822.
- Headquarters of the Center for Maine History, this historic home
was the childhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The grounds include the
Colonial Revival Longfellow Garden.
Wild Gardens of
Acadia: Sieur de Monts Spring, Park Loop Road, P.O. Box 177,
Acadia
National Park, ME 04609 (207)288-3338.
- The 3/4 acre Wild Gardens of Acadia has
more than 300 plants indigenous to the area’s forests, mountains and shores
labeled and grouped in thirteen sections: Mixed Woods, Roadside, Meadow,
Mountain, Heath, Beach, Brookside/Damp Thicket, Bird Thicket, Coniferous Woods,
Bog, Marsh and Pond, and Azalea Garden.