YardScaping Gardens at Back Cove
Located on Portland's Back Cove, Maine's first demonstration landscape, where you can learn to make your yard a sustainable garden that minimizes reliance on fertilizers, pesticides, and water.
Slideshow history of the gardens on YouTube
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Working with the City of Portland, the YardScaping Partnership selected two and a half acres along the Back Cove's walking trail for the project. The site showcases appropriate plantings in urban to rural settings in a beautiful, homeowner-doable way, plus serves as a model for municipalities across the state.
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Complete Plant List [PDF]
While partially funded by a $35,000 Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Grant
from the US Environmental Protection Agency and a $10,000 grant from the Davis Conservation Foundation, there were many significant donations of labor and materials. List of donors/volunteers and plant/material sources [PDF].
Lists of Plants Found in the Gardens
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