CAMDEN — They are all in place, those familiar blooms of summer in those familiar places. From the baskets of geraniums hanging on the downtown lampposts and the railing flower boxes on the bridge overlooking Megunticook River to the flower boxes astride the arch recognizable in the movie Peyton Place — Camden is awash in the colors of summer.

And if that wasn't enough, take not of the flowers planted at the traffic islands by the library, at the top of Main Street, and the garden by the Chamber of Commerce building at the Camden landing. Every year members of the Camden Garden Club dig in to make the summer beautiful.

To learn more about Camden Garden Club, which currently has 140 members, visit camdengardenclub.com. The club's main event and only fundraiser is the annual House and Garden Tour, this year featuring self-guided tours of six homes and their gardens in Camden and Rockport July 18 — rain or shine. Sale of tickets to the tour fund the summer flowers aroundt town, the holiday wreaths that decorate the lampposts each winter and student scholarships, among others.