Mayflower Garden helps homeowners create, improve, and care for beautiful gardens throughout Saco, Biddeford, Arundel, Kennebunk, and nearby Southern Maine communities.

Whether you are starting a new garden, refreshing an established planting, reclaiming an overgrown space, or looking for knowledgeable ongoing care, we provide practical, plant-focused solutions designed for Maine landscapes. We are here to take care of your garden and outdoor space for the entire season.

Gardens are our whole focus.

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Gardens That Grow Better With Time

A good garden should feel beautiful, natural, and manageable. We work with homeowners who want more from their outdoor spaces but may not know where to begin. Some gardens need a complete redesign. Others simply need thoughtful editing, healthier plants, better structure, or consistent care.

Our approach starts by understanding what is already working, what needs to change, and how you want to use and enjoy your garden. Whenever possible, we preserve valuable existing plants, improve the conditions around them, and build on what is already there.

The result is a garden that feels intentional without feeling overdone—and one that can continue improving from season to season.

Garden Design

Create a garden that fits your home, your property, and the way you want to live.

We design new planting areas and rework existing beds using thoughtful combinations of perennials, shrubs, ornamental grasses, and native-friendly plants suited to Southern Maine conditions.

Our garden design services can include:

• New garden and planting-bed design

• Redesign of existing gardens

• Plant selection and placement

• Perennial and shrub combinations

• Native and pollinator-friendly planting

• Lower-maintenance garden planning

• Solutions for sun, shade, coastal exposure, and difficult sites

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Garden Installation & Replanting

Sometimes a garden needs more than a few new plants. We install new gardens and thoughtfully replant established spaces that have become crowded, inconsistent, or difficult to maintain.

Depending on the garden, we may divide and relocate existing perennials, introduce new plants, improve soil conditions, reshape planting areas, and create a stronger overall structure. Our goal is not simply to fill a bed with plants. It is to create a garden that feels cohesive and has room to mature well.

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Garden Restoration & Invasive Removal

Overgrown does not always mean starting over.

Mature gardens often contain plants worth saving alongside invasive growth, weeds, overcrowded perennials, and shrubs that have lost their shape or purpose. We help homeowners reclaim these spaces by identifying what should stay, removing what should not, and rebuilding the garden thoughtfully.

Garden restoration may include:

• Invasive plant removal

• Overgrown garden cleanup

• Selective plant removal

• Perennial division and transplanting

• Bed reshaping

• Natural pruning

• Soil improvement

• Replanting and redesign

• Ongoing care after restoration

The goal is a healthier, more manageable garden—not simply a cleared space.

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Ongoing Garden Maintenance

Gardens change throughout the season, and good maintenance is about more than weeding. Our garden maintenance services are focused on the long-term health, appearance, and development of your plantings.

Depending on your garden and the season, care may include:

• Weeding and garden-bed cleanup

• Deadheading

• Selective pruning

• Perennial division

• Transplanting

• Edging

• Mulching

• Soil amendments

• Plant editing and removal

• Spring garden preparation

• Fall cutbacks and seasonal cleanup

Because we work exclusively with gardens and planting beds, we can pay attention to how individual plants are performing and how the garden is developing as a whole.

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