Volunteers are needed for light duties including raking, trimming, and planting tulip bulbs.

We will gather at the Village Green on Monday, Oct 5 at 9:00 am and break into teams to work in the different garden anreas until 10:30 am.

Please bring hand trowels, pruners, garden gloves and water.

Muffins and gluten free snacks will be provided.

If you are new to the Club or gardening in the Mid-Coast, this is a great opportunity to meet members and learn from Master Gardeners.

If you are new to the Club or gardening in the Mid-Coast, this is a great opportunity to meet members and learn from Master Gardeners.

Hospitality at 9am followed by speaker to be announced. The presentation will be part of our 2026 theme Re-visioning Your Gardens and focused on preparing your garden for winter. The public is welcome to attend.
John Fromer will be speaking to the club on September 24th about preparing our gardens for winter will be followed by a short business meeting.

Executive Board Meeting

Volunteers are needed for light duties including raking, trimming, and pulling early emerging weeds. We will gather at the Village Green on Monday, Sept 14 at 9:00 am and break into teams to work in the four different areas until 10:30 am.

If you are new to the Club or gardening in the Mid-Coast, this is a great opportunity to meet members and learn from Master Gardeners. Bring your hand tools, rakes, garden gloves, hats, and water bottles. Home baked muffins will be provided for a carbohydrate boost!

August General Meeting and Pecha-Kucha Style Presentation on members revisioning of their gardens.

Executive Board Meeting

Volunteers are needed for light duties including raking, trimming, and pulling early emerging weeds. We will gather at the Village Green on Monday, Aug 3 at 9:00 am and break into teams to work in the four different areas until 10:30 am.

If you are new to the Club or gardening in the Mid-Coast, this is a great opportunity to meet members and learn from Master Gardeners. Bring your hand tools, rakes, garden gloves, hats, and water bottles. Home baked muffins will be provided for a carbohydrate boost!

A Tour of Shleppinghurst Gardens
Lincolnville, ME
9:15 AM Tour

 With owner Ken Cleaves

For 37 years, Ken Cleaves has been clearing, moving rocks, and making paths in the woods of his Lincolnville 60 acre quarry property which he purchased for $16,000 in 1982. During those years he has transformed the land based on Japanese design, landscaping, and gardening principles.  He calls his tranquil, rambling landscape “Shleppinghurst.” 

Shleppinghurst Garden features wandering paths, ledges, stone walls, a spring fed pond edged with Japanese-style stonework, and an amphitheater-shaped quarry. Mr. Cleaves uses mostly native shrubs and trees to quietly enhance the natural landscape with tranquil beauty and symmetry

“It started out as a flower garden,” Cleaves relates. That flower garden has morphed into a well-tended Japanese garden that includes hundreds, if not thousands, of trees, shrubs and perennials-many native-that this gardener molded into a calm and serene Japanese-style garden tucked into a bit of rural Maine. And he has done it all “by hand,” with a come-along or levers and a wheel barrow.

Google Schleppinghurst Lincolnville ME for photos and an article written in Maine Boats and Harbors!

Cost: $15 a person

Parking is limited so we need to
carpool please
More details to come as we get closer
to the visit

Karen’s preferred method to Signup is an email
Karen Cease kbcease@aol.com 

You can also signup on line at
Sign Up Here

77th Annual Garden Tour

July 10
9:30 AM

Dianne Blahusch's
9 Evergreen Lane Camden

Parking is limited at Dianne’s
Car Pool: First Congressional Parking lot.  9:15 AM

A note from Dianne describing her property.

“We have a one acre….. mostly anemic yard. Nothing seems to be growing. It is very shady – with a lot of pine. There are pockets of sun in different spots where we are trying to grow vegetables but that’s not working well. Could be the soil? My wife Lindsay has a large medicinal herb garden and it’s doing “ok”.

We see thriving full beautiful plantings everywhere we go but we feel like we must be in another USDA hardiness zone! We also want to grow more native and other flowers in order to draw the butterflies and the birds and the insects, etc. We prefer a much more natural landscape.”

We are looking forward July 10 and excited to get
some new ideas!

Karen’s preferred method to Signup is an email
Karen Cease kbcease@aol.com 

You can also
Sign Up Online to Attend

Public Spaces
Thursday, July 9th at
8:30 at the Public Landing

Will be having a workday on Thursday July 9th at
8:30 at the Public Landing.
We will simply be weeding some of the beds and spreading mulch to make everything look lovely.
  Please bring your gardening gloves and a favorite hand tool
- with your name on it -

Volunteers are needed for light duties including raking, trimming, and pulling early emerging weeds. We will gather at the Village Green on Monday, July 6 to meet members and learn from Master Gardeners. Bring your hand tools, rakes, garden gloves, hats, and water bottles. Home baked muffins will be provided for a carbohydrate boost!

June General Meeting dedicated to preparing for the 77th Garden Tour

A tour of Fernwood Shade Nursery is reserved for Club members on June 18th from 1pm – 3pm. Fernwood is a specialty nursery in Montville focusing on native and woodland plants hardy to this area. They have one of the largest collections of shade tolerant plants including hosta, ferns, wildflowers and other choice plants for shade in New England. We will have a private tour with the owner, Denise Miner, who will be pleased to answer all questions about what to purchase, where to place and how to nurture shade plants. You don’t want to miss visiting this artistic and magical place. Additional details to come.

Executive Board Meeting

Many hands make light work help plant Camden's most admired Public garden.

Please contact Barb Ohland to sign up
207-975-6515
barbohland@gmail.com

Volunteers are needed for light duties including raking, trimming, and pulling early emerging weeds. We will gather at the Village Green on Monday, May 4 at 9:00 am and break into teams to work in the four different areas until 10:30 am. Camden paid parking does not go into effect until Memorial Day, May 25.

If you are new to the Club or gardening in the Mid-Coast, this is a great opportunity to meet members and learn from Master Gardeners. Bring your hand tools, rakes, garden gloves, hats, and water bottles. Home baked muffins will be provided for a carbohydrate boost!

April General Meeting: Business Meeting and speaker Peter Ralston, notable photographer

Executive Board Meeting

Volunteers are needed for light duties including raking, trimming, and pulling early emerging weeds. We will gather at the Village Green on Monday, May 4 at 9:00 am and break into teams to work in the four different areas until 10:30 am. Camden paid parking does not go into effect until Memorial Day, May 25.

If you are new to the Club or gardening in the Mid-Coast, this is a great opportunity to meet members and learn from Master Gardeners. Bring your hand tools, rakes, garden gloves, hats, and water bottles. Home baked muffins will be provided for a carbohydrate boost!

Hospitality at 10 AM followed by Marc Hall who will be doing a flower arrangement demonstration The presentation will be part of our 2026 theme Re-visioning Your Gardens and focused on Flower Arranging Through the Eyes of an Artist. The public is welcome to attend. A short business meeting will follow the presentation.

Please note: Please be aware, in case you are sensitive to pollen, the room will be filled with floral aroma throughout the demonstration.

Executive Board Meeting

Embracing the Organic Process of Design with Irene Barber. Irene is the principal of Greenscapes Design, LLC. She consults and designs vibrantly landscaped ecosystems that support clean water, biodiversity, and healthy soils.

Event is Free. Seats are limited seats, so we ask that you register ahead of time.

Coffee and Snacks 10AM
Program begins 10:30

Link to Register IN PERSON
Link to Register for ZOOM Presentation

Choosing the Right Plants with Sharon Turner. Sharon is the owner of Crystal Lake Farm and Nursery. For the past 20 years, she and her son Eli have built their business together and acted as stewards of this small piece of Maine.

Event is Free. Seats are limited seats, so we ask that you register ahead of time.

Coffee and Snacks 10AM
Program begins 10:30

Link to Register IN PERSON
Link to Register for ZOOM Presentation

Emma launched ColLab, a collaborating laboratory of five independent, women-owned landscape architecture practices in the Northeast designing landscapes to fit unique goals.

Event is Free. Seats are limited seats, so we ask that you register ahead of time.

Coffee and Snacks 10AM
Program begins 10:30

Link to Register IN PERSON
Link to Register for ZOOM Presentation

The Layered Garden with David Culp. David is the principal of David L. Culp Designs, creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage, and author of several books including The Layered Garden.

This week’s program is on Zoom ONLY.

Register for ZOOM Watch Party
Register to Attend on Zoom

Elements of Landscape Design with Todd Richardson. Todd has led the award-winning firm Richardson & Associates for over 30 years. He has extensive experience in site development and landscape design.

vent is Free. Seats are limited seats, so we ask that you register ahead of time.

Coffee and Snacks 10AM
Program begins 10:30

Link to Register IN PERSON
Link to Register for ZOOM Presentation

October General Meeting and presentation Impact of Climate Change on Your Garden.

Winter Wreath Workshop

Bow Making Worship