Column: Invite wildlife in with a ‘lawn conversion’

MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • November 29, 2020

The goal of all homeowners and the landscape gardeners they hire should be to increase the property’s biodiversity. Justin Nichols is a self-employed horticulturist working mostly from Harpswell to Portland. For nine years before starting his own business he worked as a horticulturist at the botanical gardens. Most of the projects he described in a recent talk were aimed at revising existing landscapes that featured a lot of lawn and non-native plants. ~ Tom Atwell