Landscape design in North Yarmouth, Maine.
A landscape plan in North Yarmouth has more fixed objects on it than most. There is no public sewer in town, the Comprehensive Plan confirms, and most residents draw water from private wells, many of them in bedrock. So nearly every property plan starts with two things that cannot move: the well and the septic field.
Our design work puts plantings, hardscape, grading and drainage on one plan, and the same crews build it, which keeps the design honest about what the ground and the rules allow.
Mapping the constraints before the ideas
The Land Use Ordinance adds its own lines. Dug wells on new lots are kept 100 feet from the traveled way of a public road when they sit downhill of it, and 50 feet when uphill. Buildings are prohibited in the 100-year floodplain, which the ordinance still allows as woodland, grassland or pasture, and there are large FEMA-mapped floodplains along the Royal River, Chandler Brook and Pratt's Brook. The town also counts more than 1,040 acres of vegetated wetland, most of it forested.
A design that respects those lines ends up looking intentional rather than squeezed: a lawn that stops where the wet ground begins, a meadow or woodland edge on the floodplain, a patio placed on the upland side of the house. We put the well, the leach field and any setback lines on the base plan before drawing a single bed.
Grading and drainage on silty ground
NRCS soil maps show much of the village area in Lamoine and Scantic silt loam, fine-textured soils that drain slowly. Roof water and driveway runoff that is not planned for ends up in basements or across the lawn. Our plans set grades that move water away from the foundation, route it to swales or stone infiltration strips, and keep it clear of the septic field.
On a large lot, phasing matters too. The ordinance calls for erosion control on permitted earthwork and permanent stabilization within nine months of first disturbance, so a whole-property design is usually built in stages that each finish seeded or planted.
The town's site plan standards offer a useful yardstick even for private lots: new deciduous trees of at least two-inch caliper and evergreens at least four feet tall, grouped in clumps rather than lined up singly, which reads as part of the surrounding woods within a few seasons.
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How we handle landscape design
We design landscapes that work as a whole — plantings, patios, walls, grading and drainage planned together before the first shovel breaks ground. Whether it is a full property redesign or a single outdoor living space, we walk the site, draw the plan and build it with our own crews.
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