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Highland Green resident Frank Strasburger and Tedford Housing executive director Andrew Lardie stand at the building’s future location on just over 3 acres on Thomas Point Rd.
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Highland Green Residents Raise $400,000 to Help Unhoused Neighbors

Their fundraising efforts are helping Tedford Housing build new emergency housing in Brunswick.
Laura Boyett and landscaper Jason Allerding in Boyett's garden on Augusta's Howard Hill
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In Augusta, This Wooded Backyard Hosts Some of the Most Unusual Plants Around

Laura Boyett likes to shop specialty nurseries for rare varieties of familiar perennials.
Erin Clark’s patio garden empha- sizes layered mounds of soft colors and John Davis roses, a hardy climbing variety with delicate pink blossoms and a cascading habit.
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In Hampden, Gardener Erin Clark Has Created a Fantasyland

Her blooming backyard with a gabled cottage is straight out of a storybook.
Swaths of summer bloomers, such as astilbes, coneflowers, heleniums, hydrangeas, and phlox, color Elsie Freeman’s shore-front borders
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Swaths of Summer Bloomers Color This Barters Island Garden

Elsie Freeman’s rambling shore-front borders are filled with astilbes, coneflowers, heleniums, hydrangeas, and phlox.
Robin Robinson watering the plants in her Brunswick garden
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Stop to Smell the Roses in This Brunswick Garden

Really — the owners of this perennial-and-sculpture garden welcome visitors.
gardeners Susan Greven Vayda and Eric Greven cross beneath a wrought-iron pergola cloaked in wisteria
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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.
Hancock Lumber's Casco Mill Campus
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Hancock Lumber’s Online Tools Help You Envision Your Next Home Design Project

The lumber company’s use of new and proprietary technology honors its innovative past and reaffirms its commitment to the future.
the exterior of Mercedes Foss and Jacob Akers's 1904 home on Standish’s Watchic Lake
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An Artist’s Standish Home Is Her Canvas

For the last five years, painter Mercedes Foss has been riffing on her 1904 house’s quirky flourishes.
The Maine Daylily Society bed at Merryspring Nature Center
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Merryspring Nature Center is Celebrating a Half a Century of Horticulture

For 50 years the midcoast Maine preserve has been educating visitors on how its gardens grow — and much, much more.
the three-sided, glass-walled bump-out of jeweler Aaron Ruff’s multifaceted Arrowsic home
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In Arrowsic, a Father and Son Dream Up a Gem of a Retreat

On jeweler Aaron Ruff’s multifaceted home, a three-sided, glass-walled bump-out faces the Sasanoa River.
Samuel Lombard house in West Bath, maine
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A Couple Leaves Their Mark on a West Bath Cape

Sharon Eblacker and James Haibach have been rehabbing their 1760 place since 2018.
Molly Ahrens in her tulip-filled yard in Belfast, Maine
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This Belfast Gardener’s Tulip-Filled Yard Is One of the Brightest Spots Around

Molly Ahrens’s property dazzles with Monet-like dabs of color from more than 1,000 tulips.
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