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The Belfast Garden Club, among other annual donations this month, contributed 16 new books to the gardening and horticulture collection at the Belfast Free Library. The club has made yearly donations to the library for more than 20 years with the goal of making the library’s selection of gardening-related books one of the strongest in MidCoast Maine, said Barbara Gage, president of the Belfast Garden Club. The donation included three books for children and 13 books for adults—ranging in topic from the aesthetic to the practical, with many addressing gardening in a changing climate with organic and earth-friendly methods. The…

You can meet Kate, an American botanist who collected, classified and illustrated the native flora of Maine, right in Post Office Square. She’s part of Belfast’s Bootiful Scarecrow exhibition, which also features another BGC entry—still waiting to be named—in the Water-loo garden.   Kate devoted over 60 years of her life, traveling thousands of miles throughout her home state and creating very accurate drawings and watercolor paintings of the plants she found. She discovered two plants, which were named after her: Pedicularis furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) and Aster cordifolius L., var. furbishiae.