Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens - 6/22/10

Many people in the Booth Bay Harbor/Southport area recommended we visit this Gardens, so we decided to give it a go. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens opened on June 13, 2007 after 16 years of planning, planting, and building - only three years ago! Our first stop was at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, where we enjoyed a fine lunch (using herbs and lettuces from the Burpee Kitchen Garden!). Now comprising close to 250 acres, the property boasts nearly a mile of tidal salt water frontage and is one of a very few waterfront botanical gardens in the US (with a change of tide roughly every 6.25 hrs and a difference of 10 feet between high and low water levels in the Boothbay region). Jimmy & I and Nannie & Bubba spent several enthralling hours strolling thru colorful gardens, hiking an uplands path, and down along the coastal trail. Truly a beautiful place, second (in our opinion) only to 100+ year-old Buchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada! Rob, you would love it here!

And they're still planning, planting, and building - a good thing for us all!