Bar Harbor Botanical Gardens

And turn left into the parking lot for the garden.

Bar harbor botanical gardens. My friend and i visited a few days shy of the 10th anniversary date. It was originally designed and built in 1956 1961 by charles k. Walking in the gardens especially in the early a m.

See reviews photos directions phone numbers and more for the best botanical gardens in bar harbor me. The entrance to coastal maine botanical gardens is on barters island road in boothbay about ten miles from route 1 in midcoast maine. 132 botanical gardens drive boothbay me 04537 0234.

Built with plants obtained from beatrix farrand s reef point garden in bar harbor and with financial help from john d. Savage a long time resident of northeast harbor along with financial support from john d. Savage it was not until 1956 that savage saw his vision come true.

Coastal maine botanical gardens opened in june 2007 near the time of my first visit to the boothbay region. Continue to the bottom of the hill. The garden is open year round and is located at the sieur de monts spring and nature center 2 miles south of bar harbor near the intersection of the park loop road and route 3 on mount desert island.

After or during a rainstorm in the fall or even on a moist foggy morning is a pure delight. Thuya garden is a gorgeous flowering garden located on a granite hillside overlooking northeast harbor on mount desert island maine. More than 300 native species are labeled to make identification easy in nine separate display areas.

Donations are appreciated and benefit the mount desert island land and garden preserve. Rockefeller jr thuya garden opened to the public in 1962. Coastal maine botanical gardens land activities.