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Ecological

& Ornamental

 

Our Mission

 

Essex Horticulture takes pride working seamlessly with any team as a prime, sub, or specialty contractor, regardless of project size or group composition. We foster lasting relationships with our clients by always providing a level of teamwork and care that fully satisfies client expectations and project requirements.

What we Provide

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Our Expertise 

  • Certified Landscape Professionals, Horticulturists, Arborists and Invasive Plant Managers

  • Licensed Pesticide Applicators

  • Licensed Hoisting Engineers

  • OSHA HAZWOPER Trained

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Core Services 

  • Native Plant Installation

  • Invasive Species Management

  • Slope Stabilization

  • Bioengineered Solutions

  • Monitoring & Maintenance

  • Green Infrastructure

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What We Restore

  • Coastal Salt Marshes and Dunes

  • Freshwater Wetlands

  • Parks & Recreational Areas

  • Upland Forests & Meadows

  • Fluvial Landforms

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Our Approach 

 

Essex Horticulture accurately and efficiently restores native landscapes by balancing client collaboration with independent fieldwork.  With this approach, clients and partners can focus on their scope of work while knowing with confidence that the restoration phases of their projects will be completed on time and under budget. 

Instagram Gallery

 

View fullsize This week we started putting the first of many plants in the ground at Furnace Brook! This project recreated the more natural meandering bends in the brook that were missing, and will also involve invasive plant management to make sure the native pl
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View fullsize A big plant offload day today to kick off our work restoring a salt marsh at Marsh Island! Any guesses for how many shrubs and plugs are in this project's nursery? #ecologicalrestoration #nativeplants #plants #wetlands #saltmarsh #savebuzzardsbay
View fullsize Spring clean-ups for some of our green infrastructure projects are all wrapped up! As we zoom into the growing season, we're not only getting into our ecological maintenance projects, but also diving into some bigger restoration work. Keep an eye out
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View fullsize Our crews are seeing garlic mustard in their dreams with the hours and hours we spend manually removing it this time of year! Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is an invasive biennial that populates forest floors and disturbed edges. It has a very
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View fullsize Fave Plant Friday! Owen is one of our horticulturists. He says his current favorite native plant is Zizia aurea, also known as Golden Alexander! This plant flies under the radar for most of the year, as it's foliage is low-lying, and seed heads can
View fullsize Do you or someone you know have a strong work ethic, positive attitude, and would love to spend your days reintroducing native plants to our landscapes? Essex Horticulture is hiring crew supervisors, laborers, ecological technicians, horticulturists,
View fullsize Sometimes an extra hour or two of work rewards you with some stunning sunset views at the job sites, like this one we witnessed in Truro, MA October 2022. #wetlands #ecologicalrestoration #essexhorticulture #nativeplants #invasivespecies #sunsets
View fullsize The first Favorite Plant Friday! One Friday a month we will post one of our employee's current favorite native plant. Ecological Horticulturist, Caitlyn loves Nyssa sylvatica, also known as Black Tupelo. This native is a common wetland tree, hence t
View fullsize Another year, another wetland month-by-month seasonal transformation #wetlands #ecologicalrestoration #nativeplants #essexhorticulture #plants
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View fullsize March is a great time to do live stakes! Before buds break and as the soil thaws, we will be certainly be loading some up. People think we're joking when we tell them that poking a stick into some good damp soil can lead to a lush, healthy shrub. Do
View fullsize Invasive plant species threaten native plants and ecosystems with their ability to outcompete and lack of natural predators to control them. Did you know Essex Horticulture performed invasive plant management on more than 550 acres in 2022 alone? Wit
View fullsize Did we mention Essex Horticulture is officially on TikTok? We can't wait to share time lapses, drone footage, and behind-the-scenes peaks at what we do! Check out our first videos at @essexhorticulture.
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View fullsize When you've got plants to haul, you do what you gotta do! Tag someone who would be thrilled to have a cab full of pots and plugs #essexhorticulture #ecologicalrestoration #nativeplants #saltmarsh #wetlands
View fullsize World Wetlands Day might be sitting in the groundhog's shadow, but we didn't forget! Happy World Wetlands Day! We're looking forward to another great season of restoring and maintaining one of our favorite natural water filtration ecosystems. #esse

Contact Us

 

For project service inquiries, please call or email our main office by using the form, below.  Thank you.

70 Washington Street, Suite 214, Salem, MA 01970

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