Residential landscaping in Yarmouth, Maine.
Yarmouth grew fastest in the 1960s and 1970s. The Census Bureau counts 1,421 of the town's homes as built in those two decades, and the comprehensive plan describes housing units nearly doubling between 1970 and 1989 as subdivisions spread off North Road, East Elm Street, West Main Street and out to Bayview and Drinkwater Point. The shrubs, trees and lawns planted with those houses are now fifty years old. Residential landscaping here is often a matter of taking out what has grown past its space and replanting for how the yard is used today.
Zone 6a, with a coastal edge
The 2023 USDA hardiness map puts Yarmouth's 04096 ZIP code in zone 6a, an average annual low of -10 to -5 degrees Fahrenheit. That opens a wider plant list than towns farther inland, but island and point lots on Casco Bay take wind and salt that a lot in the Village does not. We match plantings to the exposure of each part of the property rather than to the zone alone.
The town's own invasive-plant survey is a useful do-not-plant list. Across roughly 500 acres of preserves and town land it logged glossy buckthorn, Japanese barberry, Morrow's honeysuckle, multiflora rose, Asiatic bittersweet and burning bush, and rated 29 percent of the surveyed area as heavily invaded. Several of those were standard foundation shrubs when these neighborhoods were built, and removing them is part of many Yarmouth renovations.
For new shade or ornamental trees, the town's Tree Advisory Committee keeps a recommended species list, and we check proposed trees against it.
Seeding, cleanups and the ground underneath
Where a renovation strips lawn or beds, the ground under it varies by neighborhood. The town inventory counts 34 soil types, from well-drained Suffield silt loam to poorly drained Scantic silt loam in lower areas. Hydroseeding goes down on graded, loamed soil, and on wetter ground the grading comes first so the new turf is not sitting in a low spot.
Seasonal cleanups round out the work. Yarmouth's solid waste ordinance directs yard waste that is not composted on the property to the town's recycling center for composting, and the transfer station on East Main Street accepts brush, leaves and clippings from contractors working for residents under a free temporary permit. Weekly residential mowing is not part of what we offer; the design, planting and seasonal work is.
Design · Planting · Cleanups
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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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