Mill Pond Garden Opens to the Public on Sunday, June 21st, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Mill Pond Garden celebrates the flowers of the solstice with an Open Day on Sunday, June 21, 2026, from 10 AM to noon. Ticket is $25 per car with up to six passengers, either cash only at the gate, or ticket may be purchased on the website at millpondgarden.com where one can subscribe for free with no ads, no email sharing, to get notice of Open Days, classes, workshops, events, or guided eco pontoon boat trips on Red Mill Pond.

This only local public botanical garden that features plants, especially flowering plants, that do well in the Cape region. Visitors may expect to see in bloom abundant hydrangeas (most species and kinds) at peak, roses, crape myrtles, daylilies, tall phlox, pollinator plants including milkweed, lilies, clematis, lavender, hibiscus, Vitex, sunflowers, waterlilies, Benary’s Giant Zinnias, hummingbirds, butterflies, annuals, perennials, and more. The bog garden includes plants that eat insects, like native pitcher plants. The resident five-year-old native wild snapping turtle, ‘Allie’ might be seen.

Mill Pond Garden fronts on Red Mill Pond for the enjoyment of picturesque views not only of boaters and fishers, but also of abundant wildlife, including basking huge turtles, Osprey, Bald Eagle, cormorants, gulls, several kids of ducks, geese, occasional swans, great blue heron, green heron, and more. The garden includes rabbits, numerous land birds, squirrels, koi fish, occasional box turtle, and a variety of frogs, as well as butterflies, dragonflies, damselflies, and interesting pollinator bees and insects.

Parking is free and close.  The Garden is wheelchair accessible with a pusher. Photographers are welcome. Mill Pond Garden is the region’s only certified public botanical garden, a State and Federal non-profit organization to offer professional horticulture and information to the Cape region with inspirationally beautiful gardens and 2,000 feet of pathways, many garden rooms and vistas.