Mill Pond Garden to spotlight solstice flowers June 23

Mill Pond Garden will celebrate the flowers of the solstice when it opens to visitors from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sunday, June 23, at 31401 Melloy Court, Lewes. This is a rain-or-shine event. Tickets, available at millpondgarden.com, are $18 to admit a vehicle with up to six visitors.

This local public botanical garden features plants and especially flowering varieties that do well in the Cape Region. Visitors may expect to see blooming hydrangeas at peak, roses, crape myrtles, daylilies, tall phlox, milkweed, clematis, lavender, hibiscus, sunflowers, waterlilies, zinnias, and other annuals and perennials. The bog garden includes pitcher plants and Venus flytraps, which both eat insects.

Mill Pond Garden fronts on Red Mill Pond, so visitors can enjoy picturesque views of boaters and anglers, and abundant wildlife including turtles, osprey, bald eagle, cormorants, gulls, ducks, geese, occasional swans, great blue herons, green herons and more. The garden includes rabbits, hummingbirds, numerous nesting birds, squirrels, koi fish, occasional box turtles and a variety of frogs as well as butterflies, dragonflies damselflies, and interesting pollinator bees and insects.

There are over 2,000 feet of pathways through many different garden rooms that include water features like fountains, stream, ponds and waterfalls. Cameras are welcome.Gardens are mostly quite accessible to wheelchairs with a pusher.