Landscaping Services
A person’s yard is a changing, evolving space. When designed with thought and intention, it can serve in multitudes; as a space for leisure and gathering for family and friends, a home and food source for bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects, a conservation initiative for preserving New England’s native flora and fauna, a source of inspiration to spark one’s most creative and imaginative self, and a space offering calmness and an opportunity to connect to nature right out of your own front door.
At Sundial Nursery, we design and install gardens with these ideas in mind.
We service York & Cumberland counties in Southern Maine as well as Durham, Dover, & Rochester New Hampshire
Garden Design-
From an initial garden consultation, we go step by step to bring you a thoughtfully designed landscape space with scaled blueprints, cost and budgeting estimates, and an installation and management plan.
Pricing…$50/hour plus drive time
Garden Installation-
From blue print plans we work to install gardens focusing on proper planting and follow up care of the gardens to ensure the health of your plants and garden beds.
Pricing…$40/hour per person plus drive time
Garden Maintenance-
From spring mulching to weeding and fall clean-ups with an emphasis on dead heading for overwintering pollinators, we provide full service maintenance to encourage the flourishing of your gardens.
Pricing…$40/hour per person plus drive time
Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
Needs constant moisture. Easily grown in rich moist soils, good plant choice for low areas in yards where rain puddles. Grows best in part shade. Short lived perennial, but will self seed in ideal growing conditions. Clump forming, grows to be 3 feet high and 1 foot wide. Dark blue tubular flowers attract many bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Blooms in late summer.
Rose Milkweed (Asclepia incarnata)
Also known as swamp milkweed, best grown in wet sites in full sun to partial shade. Cheerful pink blooms in early summer. Will self seed and spread in garden if seed pods are not clipped off the plant. Resistant to deer browsing. Grows to be around 4’ tall and 3’ wide.
Native Plant Selection
We are currently only selling plants at select locations, you can find us at the following…
Sanford Farmers’ Market, Saturday’s 8-12
We also offer plant delivery and pick-up, send us an email for ordering!
Here is a link of a google sheet with our current stock availability and pricing!
Below are pictures of what we are offering!
Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum)
Best grown in consistently moist, well draining soil in dappled shade. White bell shaped flowers bloom from May to June. Grows to be 2 feet high and wide. Native to wet woodlands, found typically in ravine bottoms, low woodlands, and stream valleys.
Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
Swamp rose mallow is tall semi-woody perennial that blooms hibiscus-like flowers from midsummer into fall. Found naturally growing in wetlands and along stream beds, this plant grows best in rich, wet soils and can tolerate consistently moist soil. Full to partial sun. It grows quite tall, getting up to 6’ in height, but can be cut back in early spring to encourage a shorter bushier form. Pollinator magnet.
Golden Groundsel (Packera aurea)
Golden groundsel is a sweet spring blooming plant that forms a nice ground cover for gardens. Plant in a shade garden or in full sun, grows well in average to moist garden soils that are well draining. Grows up to 2’ in height and 1’ wide.
Cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)
A lanky coneflower, growing up to 10’ height, a good plant choice for the back of the garden or in a prairie setting. Cutleaf coneflowers prefer moist soils but will grow well in average soils in a full sun to partial shade environment. Classic butter yellow blooms from late summer through the fall. Goldfinches enjoy eating the seeds from the coneflower heads in the fall time. Divide every 2 to 3 years to keep the coneflowers from taking over in the garden too much.
Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
A small, tough, clump forming woodland native. Grows up to 2 feet high and 18 inches wide, but spreads through rhizomes freely. Great for naturalizing areas and for planting underneath trees where seldom other plants survive. Best grown in average, well drained soil in full sun to full shade. Saucer shaped pink flowers bloom for 6 weeks starting in the spring.
Purple Giant Hyssop (Agastache scrophulariifolia)
An upright clump forming perennial with soft purple plumes of flowers that bloom for weeks from late summer into fall. This plant is sensitive to competition, so give it space in the garden. Grows well in average soil and full sun. Can get up to 6 feet in height, but can be cut back in late spring to bring down the height and encourage a bushier habitat. Highly attractive to bees and butterflies, including the endangered rusty patched bumble bee.
