Residential landscaping in Gray, Maine.
About 78 percent of Gray's 4,442 housing units are single detached houses, and 82 percent of occupied homes are owned by the people living in them, according to the 2020–2024 American Community Survey. The median home was built in 1983, so many yards were planted forty years ago and are now overgrown, thin or shaded out by trees that were saplings back then.
Our residential landscaping in Gray covers design, plantings, hydroseeding and seasonal cleanups. We do not sell weekly residential mowing. The work is putting a property back together.
Colder than the coast
The 2023 USDA map puts Gray in zone 5b, where average winter lows reach minus 10 to minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit. Shrubs and perennials that manage on the Cumberland Foreside can struggle inland, so plant lists here lean toward stock proven to survive a 5b winter, with anything borderline kept in sheltered spots near the house.
The Maine Forest Service lists Gray inside its quarantines for emerald ash borer, hemlock woolly adelgid and spongy moth. That changes what gets planted: new ash and hemlock are poor bets, and a mix of species holds up better than a single row of one tree.
Two kinds of Gray yard
Rural Residential and Agricultural zoning covers most of the town, with 80,000-square-foot lots and 200 feet of frontage, and the ordinance describes it as land beyond what public water and sewer can reasonably reach. Those yards have a well, a septic field and a long driveway, and the landscaping has to respect all three. Village Center lots are a quarter of that size, on 40 feet of frontage, and read more like in-town gardens.
Lake lots are a third case. Inside Gray's shoreland buffer, ground cover under three feet, leaf litter and forest duff cannot be cut, covered or removed except for a permitted footpath, so a lakeside landscape usually adds plants rather than clearing to lawn.
Ground that changes lot to lot
Soil survey units around Gray range from droughty Hinckley and Windsor sands to wet Lamoine and Scantic silt loams and stony Paxton till. A plant that thrives on one lot can drown on the next. Soil is checked before plants are chosen, and hydroseeding is used to cover large disturbed areas quickly. On a new build or a regraded septic area in the rural district, a quick green cover also keeps the driveway and the well casing out of the mud.
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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