Residential landscaping in Standish, Maine.
About 10,700 people live in Standish across roughly 59 square miles of land, which works out to a lot of room per house. The ACS counts 4,925 homes, and 947 of them are held for seasonal or recreational use, most of them camps on Sebago, Watchic and Bonny Eagle. The rest are split between village houses and rural homes on large lots.
Each of those asks something different of a landscape. A camp wants a few durable plantings and a stable yard that can go weeks without attention. A village home wants its beds and front walk restored. A rural house on several acres wants a lawn where the lawn should be and woods everywhere else.
Half the town drains to the water supply
Standish's comprehensive plan puts about half of the town inside the Sebago Lake watershed, and the Portland Water District says that lake supplies drinking water to nearly one in six Mainers. The plan lists phosphates from residential lawns and erosion from building sites and driveways among the future threats to Standish's surface waters. For landscaping here that means seeding bare soil quickly, keeping mulch and loam off slopes that face the lake, and not fertilizing with phosphorus without a soil test that calls for it.
Standish also bans pesticide storage anywhere in its shoreland zone, according to the Maine Board of Pesticides Control's list of municipal ordinances. A lake camp's shed is not the place to keep a season's worth of weed control.
What we do on a Standish property
Our residential work is design, plantings, hydroseeding and seasonal cleanups, plus the stonework that ties it together. We do not sell weekly residential mowing. On a village lot in Standish Corner that might mean new foundation plantings and a rebuilt walk. On a rural lot off Route 25 it might mean grading and hydroseeding the ground a builder left raw.
Standish sits in USDA zone 5b on the 2023 map. Plants are chosen for that winter and for the site: shade and acid soil under white pine on lake lots, full sun and faster drainage on cleared sandy ground.
Standish's houses span several generations. The ACS puts the median home's construction year at 1980, and 3,417 of the 3,746 year-round occupied homes are owned by the people living in them. That leaves plenty of 1970s and 1980s houses whose original foundation shrubs now cover the windows, next to newer builds that never got past a seeded yard.
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.
See the full landscaping service page or everything we do in Standish, Maine.
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