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corrugated-steel beds from Ergonomic Gardens
Home + Garden

In Yarmouth, Mounded Vegetable Beds Save a Couple’s Backs

Having built the garden of their dreams, they now sell their steel frames and offer gardening advice online.
gardeners Susan Greven Vayda and Eric Greven cross beneath a wrought-iron pergola cloaked in wisteria
Home + Garden

This Emerald Oasis in Falmouth Was Once a Wide-Open Lawn

Now, curving, crushed-stone paths connect a wisteria-draped pergola, an arched bridge, a pond, and a natural woodland.
a Cushing vacation home appears to nestle in a bank of deer-resistant black-eyed Susans and goldenrod
Home + Garden

This Garden Is a Haven for Family, Fauna, and Pollinator Friends

Landscape designer James McCain surrounded his family’s Cushing vacation home with hardy, low-maintenance native plants, herbs, and grasses.
Roger Lycette's peony garden in Bangor
Home + Garden

Showing Their Peony Pride

A Bangor couple leans into a bold, fragrant spring bloomer.
500 hosta varieties carpet the two-acre grove between the Schmidts’ house and the pond
Home + Garden

Hordes of Hostas Call This Holden Place Home

How a simple woodland path became a playfully eccentric garden with lots and lots of hostas.
Robin Robinson watering the plants in her Brunswick garden
Home + Garden

Stop to Smell the Roses in This Brunswick Garden

Really — the owners of this perennial-and-sculpture garden welcome visitors.
Interior of the Ocean House Hotel in Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Travel & Outdoors

The Oldest Hotel on Old Orchard Beach Gets a Colorful Update

Built around 1895, the Ocean House Hotel reopens this month with a splashy new interior.
Judy Stallworth's dahlia garden in West Bath, Maine
Home + Garden

A West Bath Grower Cedes Her Yard to Dozens of Dahlias

Judy Stallworth grows more than 50 dahlia varieties, ensuring there’s always something in bloom to give away.
A cedar bridge studded with river stones leads from Ellen Shibles’s front door to her garden, where echinacea and rudbeckia bloom above a retaining wall by Mount Vernon’s Scott Horne Construction.
Home + Garden

Creatures Are a Lively Feature in This Wilton Garden

A friendly gardener creates a vibrant refuge for people and pollinators.
Rich West’s 1904 bungalow on Shore Road in Cape Elizabeth
Home + Garden

A Cape Elizabeth Gardener’s Lavish Container Garden Slows Traffic

Rich West started planting his Cape Elizabeth container garden as soon as he moved into what, 27 years ago, was a fixer-upper.

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