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New Gloucester's Pineland Garden chosen as favorite

The Readers' Choice Poll from People, Places, and Plants, in their Spring 2006 Issue, conducted a poll in which the readers results show that New Gloucester's Pineland Gardens is a "Favorite Public Garden."

This is the first appearance in the poll for the gardens at Pineland Farms, which placed within the top ten Readers Choice picks along with The Boston Public Gardens and the Bronx Botanical Garden. Congratulations Pineland Gardens!

Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Conn. 512

Boston Public Gardens, Boston, Mass. 479

Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, Mass. 472

Prescott Park, Portsmouth, N.H. 301

McLaughlin Garden, South Paris, Maine 183

Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa. 171

Pineland Farms, New Gloucester, Maine 141

New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y. 129

Strawberry Banke, Portsmouth, N.H. 101

Asticou Gardens, Northeast Harbor, Maine 96

This is a "Cherry Cheeks" daylily, and above, the Fountain at the Gardens last summer. Photos by Beth Blakeman-Pohl