Mill Pond Garden Open Day, Sunday, July 19th, 2026 - 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Mill Pond Garden opens for July Jubilee of Flowers on Sunday, July 19, from 9:30 am to noon, at 31401 Melloy Court, Lewes, DE 19958. Tickets are $25 per car, admitting all passengers, online or cash only at the gate at millpondgarden.com. This only local Cape area botanical garden opens for the different peaks of flowering or foliage on Sundays throughout the year.

The Garden shares an abundance of flowering species and a lot of fragrance, pollinators, and wildlife.

In flower, you will find crape myrtles, dahlias, zinnias, daylilies, lilies, waterlilies, roses, salvia, Monarda (bee balm), pickerel rush, Vitex, Acidanthera, Pelargonium, begonia, Morning glory, Pennisetum rubrum, hibiscus, foxglove, Boltonia, Crocosmia, Angelonia, and more. Wildlife commonly seen here on the huge waterfront of Red Mill Pond includes bald eagle, mallards, Canada geese, green heron, great blue heron, cormorant, sharp-shinned hawk (currently fledging a brood), frogs, garter snake, lots of bunnies and squirrels, lizard, all the common garden birds, and a wild, semi-pet snapping turtle ‘Allie’. The Garden is not only a certified botanical garden but also a Certified Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.

Mill Pond Garden serves the public with professional horticultural information, design ideas, and a display of the locally ideal possibilities, plant choices for local gardeners, offering a zoo of plant species that perform well here, great garden design ideas, specializing in the majority of native plants with some beneficial non-natives, for both sun and shade, wet and dry planting sites.

Google rates Mill Pond Garden 5 stars. AI review says: Located in coastal Delaware, Mill Pond Garden (Lewes, DE) is highly rated (5/5 stars) for its lush, intimate botanical displays and abundant wildlife habitats. Visitors describe this non-profit native plant garden as a soothing, unpretentious retreat teeming with koi ponds, vibrant hydrangeas, and bird-friendly foliage. The Garden has more than one thousand eight hundred local household subscribers.