About Us
The 2011 Hedgerow crew ready for early Spring work
Who are we?
Anne Cox and Julie Wortman founded Hedgerow in 2003. They are involved in every step of creating, installing and maintaining their designs. To this end, each season they recruit a crew of hardworking gardeners and landscapers. Ingrid Cook, Laura Bly, Adam Fearing, Joan Small and Toni Small are the core of returning crew members in 2011, and have all worked with Hedgerow for at least three years each.
Co-owner Julie Wortman has advanced degrees in the history of art, particularly American architectural history. She has also been an historic preservation specialist. She brings this perspective to our design work. In the summers, when not supervising garden maintenance teams, she manages the Hedgerow gallery and garden shop.
Anne Cox has a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan and has been designing, installing and maintaining gardens and landscapes in mid-coast Maine since 1997. She also makes the imaginative rustic furniture and award-winning hooked rugs featured in the Hedgerow gallery.
Landscape design and installation
Each year we design and install new gardens and landscapes in midcoast Maine from Belfast to Waldoboro and on several islands. In addition to relying on our crew of seasoned gardeners, we can also call on a talented team of rock workers, earth movers and carpenters as needed.
Ongoing garden development
While our primary activity is the design and installation of gardens and landscapes, we also tend a number of gardens and landscapes that we are constantly massaging and developing.
Rustic furniture and hooked rugs
Anne Cox’s trademark rustic work has a strongly evocative appeal that has evolved out of the work she does in landscape design. Each piece, whether a chair, bench, table, trellis, arbor, or fence, is the result of a conversation between the natural, “found” wood and intention. Likewise, the inspiration for her award-winning hooked rugs is often the natural world surrounding her, sometimes rendered realistically, other times more abstractly. The Hedgerow Gallery features Cox’s work, but also includes pottery and fiber art from other local artists.
May through October at Hedgerow
- Nursery, gallery and garden shop open Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
- Saturday market featuring Hedgerow-grown veggies, open Saturday morning starting at 8 a.m.
- Display gardens
