Peak of Pollinators Garden Open Day

Mill Pond Garden celebrates the mid-summer peak of pollinators and flowers with a public Garden Open Day on Sunday, August 2, and Monday, August 3, 2026, from 10 am to noon at 31401 Melloy Court Lewes, DE 19958. Ticket is $25/car admitting up to six passengers, available on website millpondgarden.com, or cash only at entrance, with free parking, wheelchair accessible with pusher, rain or shine, closed only if lightning or high winds.

The garden, the Cape region’s only certified non-profit public botanical garden, will offer an abundance of pollinators, possessing large beds of native pollinator plants attracting many types of small to large butterflies in quantity, an aerial ballet, and a score of species of bees and other pollinators.

Plants in bloom, many at peak of their bloom now, include Hibiscus, Crape myrtle, Tall Phlox (paniculata) including the best choices for disease resistance pollinator attraction, and performance, native Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower) and the lesser known blue cardinal flower, Angelonia, Cosmos, lilies, daylilies, Pelargonium, Lythrum, Monarda, waterlilies, morning glories, Pennisetum rubrum, Liriope (including rare great purple), Loropetalum in 3 cultivars, hardy and non-hardy begonia, Oxalis triangularis (purple shamrock), Boltonia, Rudbeckia, Veronica, Salvia (many species), Hydrangea, Hosta, and more, a huge collection to offer ideas to the visitor for what does well in our region. It is the peak of the flowering year and the peak of the butterfly and pollinator year at the same time, wonderfully fragrant, quoting the Garden Grader, ‘not to be missed.’