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Calendar of Events
Merryspring Mapped
May 13 1:00 PMPlant Sale
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Flower Arranging Workshops
The Art of Tulips: A Mother’s Day Workshop
Join us for a hands-on experience designing your own stunning tulip arrangement. Enjoy a peaceful spring day surrounded by flowers, learn simple design techniques, and take home something truly special. Perfect for moms, friends, or even a solo creative escape.Spots are limited—be sure to reserve yours!
Workshop Times:
Saturday, May 9 at 10:00 AM
Sunday, May 10 at 1:00 PMt -
2026 Events and Customer offerings Check out this gem of a Farmstand!
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Location: Camden Hills Regional High School first week, then each other’s gardens!
Eight Wednesdays, starting April 8, 6-8 PM (may vary after first class per students’ needs)
Course fee: $139 (no senior discount) plus $10 fee for materials paid to instructor
Spring is a great time to plan, prepare, and plant trees, shrubs, and perennials! Whether you're starting from scratch, needing to renovate existing plantings, wanting to plan a new vegetable or flower garden or create a special habitat for birds and beneficials, this field-based class is for you! First meeting is mandatory and at CHRHS; subsequent classes at each participant's property to explore individualized, site-specific options. Organic practices emphasized along with incorporation of native plants important for birds, bees, butterflies, and other beneficials. Class will also include a meeting at the instructor's nursery in Washington.
Instructor Sharon Turner owns Crystal Lake Farm and Nursery in Washington, Maine. She specializes in open-pollinated vegetable and flower seedlings, native perennials, shrubs, trees, and cut flowers. She grows for Fedco Trees and the Knox-Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District. She has been a certified Master Gardener Volunteer for more than twenty years.escription text goes here
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Each month from March through July Permaculture Garden Designer Joan Herzog gives a Thursday afternoon classroom presentation and a Saturday morning visit to the nearby ¼ acre lot she transformed into a bird and insect haven with over eighty-five native plants and large beds of fruits and vegetables. Come see for yourself!
Choose your month(s):
Complete Five-Month Series: $150
Classroom: INTRODUCTORY PERMACULTURE, PART 2 Creating Your Home Garden Design continued. Plus Tools/ Techniques for Building Your Soil and Beds. Essential earth- building steps for successful gardens.
Greenhouse: SOIL/BED BUILDING SKILLS Soil testing, collecting materials, composting, hugelkulture, key holes, path plucking, plus trellising and other productive techniques. You will leave with many new skills and some native plants selected for your site.
Classroom: INTRODUCTORY PERMACULTURE, PART 3 Creating Your Home Garden Design concluded. Planting Successful Food Gardens and Spring Maine Natives: Selecting, proper location and planting techniques. Turn those ideas into a doable plan.
Greenhouse and Garden: EARLY OUTDOOR PLANTING Techniques using a grow room, greenhouses, tunnels, and cold frames will be examined. Soil augmentation plus multipurpose garden tools that last decades will be discussed and tested. You will leave with your finished 2026 Garden Plan and, surely, some plants.
Classroom: PERMACULTURE FOR YOUR COMMUNITY Growing Food, Spreading the Wealth, and Rewilding Your Neighborhood. There are so many different ideas, this could be an entire series, but the goal is to implement small, productive changes that can ignite huge, healthy changes all around! Also How to Plan Your Herb Beds.
Greenhouse and Garden: COMMUNITY GARDENS IN ACTION Help create community beds for early harvests. We’ll review HERB GARDENS: DESIGNS, GROWING AND HARVESTING. All will leave with healthy herb plants and neighborhood ideas.
Classroom: EARLY HARVESTS AND LATE PLANTINGS Creating large harvests that last throughout the growing season. Also, what can go right and what can go wrong even when you have great soil, proper location, adequate nutrients, water, and sun; we’ll dig into challenges like bugs, diseases, and crop failure diagnoses and solutions.
Garden: SUMMER FOOD HARVESTING and PUTTING FOOD BY Staying on top of harvesting, garden chores, and saving your harvest using dehydrating and canning systems. Also Eco-Friendly Xeriscaping, Water Barrels, Mulch, and Other Water Saving Ideas.
Instructor Joan Herzog is a Permaculture Garden Designer, retired Registered Dietitian and health columnist with a passion for organic gardening. She has taught hundreds of food/nutrition workshops and is thrilled to transition to teaching permaculture gardening techniques. Recently, she has been diagnosed with a brain injury that has changed her life in surprisingly positive ways. She swears that gardening is your best bet against an aging body and brain.
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The Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library is pleased to announce the return of its beloved Secret Gardens of the Kennebunks Tour on Saturday, July 11, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, rain or shine.
For one day only, seven gracious property owners will open their private gardens—normally hidden behind stone walls, seaside cottages, and privacy hedges—to guests eager to explore the Kennebunks’ most enchanting and diverse landscapes. Ticket holders will enjoy a variety of garden styles and plant collections, all while supporting a vital community resource. Volunteers will greet visitors at each location to answer questions and assist with parking.
Tickets are available in advance for $60 each via Eventbrite (see below) or at Graves Library (18 Maine Street, Kennebunkport). Day-of tickets will be available for $70 at the Kennebunkport Consolidated School (25 School Street), where the tour begins. All participants must start at Consolidated School to receive a detailed map and instructions for the day.
All proceeds from the Secret Gardens of the Kennebunks Tour directly benefit the Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library, ensuring continued service and programs for the community.
For more information, please contact Graves Memorial Public Library at (207) 967-2778 or visit www.graveslibrary.org.
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Garden Club Federation of Maine, was founded in 1934 with the Camden Garden Club as a founding member.
Check out the ongoing events throughout the state
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Camden Garden Club Members are invited to attend the 2026 Annual Meeting of the GCFM Medomak District. The meeting agenda and ticket cost are provided below.
The CGC Treasurer will manage all Club ticket payments and forward them to the District Treasurer. Therefore, if you plan on attending, please mail your check payment to Camden Garden Club, PO Box 952, Camden, ME 04843.
Medomak District of the Garden Club Federation of Maine Annual Meeting
A call to the Officers and Members of the Garden Clubs of Bath, Boothbay,
Camden, Friendship, Topsham, Waldoboro and Wiscasset
Monday, May 4th, 2026
Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences
New Forum Auditorium
60 Bigelow Drive, East Boothbay, Maine
9:30 am Registration with refreshments
10:00 am Call to Order, Business Meeting, Recognitions
11:30 am Socializing, Perusing the White Elephant and Silent Auction Tables
Noon Luncheon
1:00 pm Program: Catherine Mitchell, Senior Research Scientist Satellite Oceanographer, Bigelow Labs for Ocean Sciences
Her program is: Studying Phytoplankton using Ocean Color Satellites
Phytoplankton, also known as microalgae, are the base of several aquatic food webs which include - but are not limited to - shrimp, snails, and jellyfish. More important, they provide half of the globe’s oxygen supply. Ocean Color Satellites measure light reflected from the surface of the Earth in several different wavelengths.
2:00 pm Silent Auction finals
3:00 pm Meeting adjourned, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens tour available. Please sign up with your registration so we can have a headcount. No cost to membership.
Cost: $30 for GCFM Club Members registering on or before April 18th. $35 for Guests and late registrations
The district will be providing breakfast refreshments and a buffet lunch.
Please let us know if you have any dietary needs.
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Email info@camdngardenclub.org
