I'm not in Maine. I wish I was. Simple as that. July is a bit of an unpleasant armpit here in DC and this year it seems particularly, well, stinky. We are supposed to get ANOTHER day of record high temps tomorrow.
Anyway, I was especially wishing I was in Maine when I got an email promoting a new flora database which has just been posted online by the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. I have never been there, and I'm not sure why they wanted me to know about their database, but I was impressed nonetheless and I've bookmarked the site; I think this will prove to be as useful as MOBOT, that wonderful powerhouse of a database run by the Missouri Botanical Gardens. (Never been there either but boy do I use their website!)
In the case of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, the database's most useful feature is the "What's In Bloom"section, where you can put in any date and see both a photo of what is blooming at their gardens on that day AND a map of where you can find it in the gardens. Wow. I cannot imagine how many hours of labor that must have taken to create....! But lordy, how I wish every public garden could do that. I would surely wear out the battery of my smart phone with each visit to a new place.
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