Native Plants for Your Maine Garden

By Maureen Heffernan

Use native plants to beautifully transform your Maine garden in the most environmentally friendly way

Savvy gardeners include native plants in their landscaping because they know these species are hardy, disease-resistant, noninvasive, and beneficial to wildlife. Most important for gardeners--they offer natural beauty that ranges from subtle to supremely eye-catching.

More than 140 native perennials, grasses, groundcovers, ferns, shrubs, vines, and trees are profiled and pictured in Native Plants for Your Maine Garden, along with advice on choosing the best plants for a variety of locations. To help you get started, there are sample plans for a woodland border and a garden designed to attract birds and butterflies.

Other key areas covered by the book include:

Plants for dry or wet soilsScreens and hedgesPlants for shade and part shadeDeer-resistant speciesPlants that attract birds and butterfliesSample garden plansDesign principlesPlanting and garden maintenance tipsHardiness zone mapsSources for native plants

There's no one more qualified to discuss superior native plants for Maine gardens than Maureen Heffernan, former executive director of the acclaimed Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, where native plants thrive in a variety of landscaped settings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684750938
• ISBN13: 9781684750931
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Down East Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional Maine Gardening Guide

So thrilled I bought this book. It's an exceptional reference book for finding what is in or should be in your garden here in Maine. The author is incredibly botanically knowledgeable and her expertise on our local ecological diversity is priceless. The book is divided up by types of plants (vines, perennials, groundcovers, etc.) followed by specialized plant lists, including invasives and other good-to-knows, as well as a great reference section. It's 122 pages of essential Maine native yard and garden information!!