Azaleas and Rhododendrons, Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, Boothbay, Maine

Several years in the past Carol and I have celebrated our wedding anniversary with a day out at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay Maine. It is a lovely place to spend a July morning, among the flowers, and often dragonflies of the variety of gardens they have on the grounds. But July is too late for one of the main gardens: the Giles Rhododendron Garden, which has over 100 varieties of Rhododendron and Azalea terraced up a hillside under tall pines. So this year we went early…but the earlies time and weather allowed was this past Thursday. We were still just about a week too late. The garden was in bloom on the 15th, according to the CMBG blog, but heavy rains several days between then and our visit put and end to the bloom. We found plants in odd corners still showing…but the main event, with the hillside full of pastel color, was past. These are a few of the remaining blossoms. 

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