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Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay has now been lighting up the holidays for a full decade.

This year’s Gardens Aglow includes several new sculptures, including a giant lobster and a 100-foot tunnel of lights. The display also features a fairy house village, giant wooden trolls Roskva and Lilja and more than 300 lighted sculptures ranging from a moose to owls and dragonflies.

Gardens Aglow runs from Nov. 16 to Dec. 31 and is open Thursday through Sunday and select Wednesdays. It will be closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Admission is $21 for adults, $18 for seniors and veterans, $12 for children and $54 for families (two adults, two children). Discounted pricing is available through Nov. 27. Tickets must be purchased in advance at mainegardens.org.

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Roskva, a giant troll sculpture, is reflected in a pond at Gardens Aglow’s annual preview on Thursday.
Siblings Kelly Spiridakis, 6, left, and Luka Spiridakis, 5, of Bath, play on Lilja – a giant wooden troll – during the annual preview of Gardens Aglow at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay on Thursday.
A detail of Roskva, a giant troll sculpture.
Calie Wilson and John Probert of Wiscasset peer into one of the houses at the Fairy House Village at Gardens Aglow. “If I were a fairy, I’d move in,” Probert joked.
Gardens Aglow attendees walk across a footbridge.
Gardens Aglow attendees stroll through the Woodland Garden.
A footbridge spans the still, reflective waters of a pond at Gardens Aglow.
A footbridge lights the way to Gardens Aglow.
A couple takes in the view at Gardens Aglow at twilight.

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