Landscaping and Gardening in a Coastal Ecosystem
Harpswell offers a unique set of opportunities and issues for gardeners. Did you know? Fog waters our gardens! Growing deer resistant varieties of plants keeps ticks away from your property. Volunteer plants growing naturally are suited to the soil and free!
For information on best gardening practices the University of Maine Cooperative Extension provides practical, research-based, how-to solutions.
Why YardScape? A landscape rich in diverse vegetation is unique. It expresses a property's own character. Better yet, a lush YardScaped property conveys an important message about aesthetics: environmental responsibility is always in good taste.
Some helpful links:
Become a BayScaper - Friends of Casco Bay
A comprehensive collection of the standards of ecologically based landscape practices that qualify properties to be designated as BayScapes.