It’s Summer! Must be time for us to. . .

Visit Our Neighbors’ Gardens!

One of the best things about having a garden is being able to share it. For over twenty years, Belfast Garden Club Open Garden Days has provided access to inspirational, stunning, whimsical, classical, innovative–the adjectives are too numerous to list!–but always imaginative gardens in Waldo County during the summer months. We strive to ensure that no two gardens in a given year are alike. From the palatial to the cottage, these gardens embody their gardeners’ aesthetics and resources in a way that reinforces the idea that striving to “bloom where you are planted” will yield pleasure and surprises.

This wondrous painting of a garden in full bloom is by Judy Taylor, winner of the 2025 BGC Poster Contest.

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Going Native

“Gardening” is a catch-all term that encompasses everything from a dooryard vegetable plot to Sissinghurst. Trends come and go (remember the days of uniform impatiens circling trees like protective armies?) but the movement toward gardening with native plants is more than a passing fancy. Nancy Lawson’s “The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a Backyard Habitat For Wildlife” is the book to read if you want to understand why going native with your plant choices is crucial to the survival of our ecosystem.

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