Welcome to Skillins Design Service, available by appointment. Skillins is open seven days a week, year-round ready to serve you with your gardening needs.

With our combination of plant knowledge and top quality products, we tailor the design to your specific needs and wants. Our goal is to bring our customers a quality design at a reasonable price, and to further the enjoyment of the outdoor living space with our knowledge of plants and the quality of our products.

Site Visits:
The site visit is a great way to get a few questions answered that you may have, without having to describe the situation to us here at our store. You get Skillin’s knowledge and help with the convenience of being at home. Whether it’s a few simple questions or the beginnings of the design process, it’s a great starting point.

Design Service:
The design service gives you the ability to have us create a design that you can enjoy for years to come. It will make your backyard into a livable outdoor space with various and versatile uses. We tailor each design to your needs and wants. This process starts with a “walk-around” of your property, and ends with a top quality design of your new landscape.

Design and Site Visit Rates:
Landscape Design: $58.00 per hour
Garden Consultation: $45.00 per hour *Drive time fee not included

Skillins Greenhouses

Success stories: Chad Skillin, landscape designer
The Maine Switch, July 8, 2008

Skillin earned his degree in landscape horticulture with a concentration in design from the University of Maine in 2003. He started designing that spring and has helped to create incredible gardens for hundreds of clients in Southern and Midcoast Maine.