Landscaping in North Yarmouth, Maine.
Residential landscaping in North Yarmouth starts with scale. The 2018 Comprehensive Plan found about 63% of the town forested, 17% open field and 12% wetland or open water, with roads and buildings on only about 8% of the land. A typical property is a house carved out of that cover, so the work is less about filling a small yard and more about deciding where lawn ends and woods begin.
We handle landscape design, plantings, hydroseeding and spring and fall cleanups here. Weekly residential mowing is not something we sell; full landscape work is.
Edges, deer and the zone 6a palette
The USDA's 2023 hardiness map puts North Yarmouth in zone 6a. That opens up a wider plant list than towns farther inland, but the Comprehensive Plan also records ten candidate deer wintering areas in town and a 1,689-acre undeveloped habitat block northwest of the village around Knight's Pond and Bruce Hill. Deer pressure is part of the site conditions, so plantings near the woodline lean toward species deer tend to leave alone and away from the ones they strip each winter.
The forest edge itself is often the best feature on the lot. Rather than clear it back, we usually shape it: limb up a few trees, clean out the scrub, and plant a transition of shrubs between lawn and woods.
Where site plan review applies, the Land Use Ordinance itself asks that invasive plant species be avoided and that the natural landscape be preserved as far as practicable, which is a sound rule for a home lot too. Burning bush, Japanese barberry and similar escapes stay off our plant lists here.
Rules that follow the rivers
About three-quarters of the town drains to the Royal River, and the Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District, quoted in the town plan, calls sediment the single largest pollutant by volume in that river. The plan specifically points at homeowner choices, including fertilizer use and how exposed soil gets mulched and seeded, as a cumulative pressure on water quality.
Properties within 500 feet of the Royal River, Chandler Brook or the East Branch sit in the Royal River Corridor Overlay, and properties over the Yarmouth Water District's sand and gravel aquifers sit in the Groundwater Protection Overlay. On those lots we keep bare soil to a minimum during the job, mulch and seed promptly, and go light on fertilizer, guided by a soil test rather than habit.
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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