Mill Pond Garden to showcase summer flower peak June 25
Mill Pond Garden will celebrate the shrub and perennial flowers of high summer, welcoming visitors from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sunday, June 25, near Lewes. A $15 ticket admitting one car with up to six passengers can be purchased at millpondgarden.com, or by cash-only admission at the gate. There will be a horticulturist on duty.
Among the many plant varieties at peak bloom, visitors may see hydrangeas, crape myrtles, amaryllis, daylilies, clematis, iris, sages, water lilies, pickerel rush, roses, hibiscus and tall phlox, along with butterflies, dragonflies, frogs, birds, basking turtles and pond koi.
There may also be blooms on some of the plants in the new Epiphyte Garden, with American tropical tree-dwelling plants like orchids, bromeliads, tillandsias, Spanish moss and flowering cactus. A nest of baby catbirds is visible in a shrub just opposite the Epiphyte Garden.
At this solstice season, the gardens are a feast for the senses along nearly a half-mile of paved and woodland pathways in a series of garden rooms with many water and architectural features, lovely vistas into neighboring forests, and fronting views onto beautiful Red Mill Pond with all its wildlife. Mill Pond Garden offers labeled botanical collections with great diversity of species and cultivars suitable for growing well locally. It is also a National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat with advice and examples offered on what features will welcome wildlife, butterflies, hummingbirds, reptiles, birds and pollinators.
With increasingly hot days of the solstice and summer, one seasonal tip Mill Pond Garden offers to local gardeners is to water more and longer for deep soaks. This will encourage roots to grow deeper and promote thriving, long-term survival of lawns and plants in the ground less than three years.
This nonprofit, public botanic garden serves the community as a horticultural and garden reference for families new to the area as well as long-established gardeners here in the Cape Region.
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