UMaine Cooperative Extension Holds Annual Moon Garden Celebration

Contact: Gleason Gray, 207-942-7396

STILLWATER, ME–University of Maine Cooperative Extension will once again hold its Moon Garden Celebration, a tradition of celebrating the July full moon, on Tuesday, July 24 at Rogers Farm on Bennoch Road in Stillwater. The 6 p.m. event will feature stories, songs and the Moon Garden, a garden with night-blooming plants grown by UMaine Extension Master Gardeners. It is free and open to the public. Some seating will be available but visitors are urged to bring their own chairs. In the event of rain, the even will be indoors.

Gardeners are invited to tour the Demonstration Garden starting at 5 p.m. Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer questions.

The moon garden celebration will start with children