Residential landscaping in Cumberland, Maine.
Cumberland is mostly single-family homes on generous ground. The draft comprehensive plan counts about 3,282 housing units, roughly 82 percent of them single-family detached and nearly 79 percent with three or more bedrooms, and it reports that the RR1 and RR2 rural residential districts cover 77 percent of the town's land. In those districts the minimum lot is two acres, or four in RR1 without a sewer connection, so a typical Cumberland landscape has far more ground to plan than a suburban quarter-acre.
Large lots, three distinct areas
The town describes itself in three parts: West Cumberland toward Route 26/100, Cumberland Center with the schools and Town Hall along Main Street and Tuttle Road, and Cumberland Foreside on the coast. West Cumberland holds much of the remaining forest and farmland; the Center has the denser village districts, where VMDR lots can be as small as 20,000 square feet; the Foreside mixes older homes with newer neighborhoods near the bay.
Residential landscaping here is usually about deciding which part of a big lot deserves finished treatment. The area around the house gets plantings, lawn and a proper walk, while the edges are left as meadow or woods and kept tidy with seasonal cleanups.
Fertilizer, runoff and Casco Bay
Cumberland is a regulated stormwater community under Maine DEP's small-MS4 general permit, and the town's stormwater page lists yard waste, excess fertilizer and pesticides among the pollutants carried to Casco Bay. It specifically warns against fertilizing at the wrong time and against letting fertilizer land on driveways and roads. New plantings and hydroseeded areas are fed from a soil test, and clippings and leaves are kept out of the street.
UMaine Extension's low-input lawn bulletin supports the same approach: mow at about three inches, and apply fertilizer between Labor Day and Columbus Day according to the soil test.
The town's Brush Dump on Stiles Way off Tuttle Road accepts brush, leaves and grass clippings from Cumberland residents with a pass bought at Town Hall, which gives cleanup debris somewhere local to go.
Houses in town span a long history, too. Town records cited in the plan count 27 houses built before 1800, and those older properties often keep fieldstone walls and old trees that a new planting plan should work around rather than erase.
Design · Planting · Cleanups
How we handle landscaping
We design and install residential landscapes across Cumberland and Greater Portland: plantings, hydroseeding, cleanups and the hardscape that ties the property together. Weekly residential mowing is not what we sell — full landscape work is.
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