News & Notices
Yarmouth is in Bloom: Get Ready For the Judges!
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The Town of Yarmouth welcomes the Communities in Bloom Judges for the 2025 International Competition, from Monday, July 14th to Wednesday, July 16th. Judges will be touring the ENTIRE town, looking for general tidiness, clean streets and properties, beautiful gardens, parks and public areas. We will also impress them with our unique heritage, presented through our festivals, museums, walking tours, and community involvement.
Yarmouth is competing at the International level in 2025. This is an “All Hands on Deck” moment, and we need everyone to pitch in to make Yarmouth look its best. Our parks and public works crews, Communities in Bloom volunteers, Garden Club members, Solid Waste Park staff, businesses and private citizens have all been working hard to make the town beautiful. You can pitch in by cutting your grass, trimming your edges, picking up litter - every little bit helps!
Notice of Public Participation Meeting - July 8th
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A Public Participation Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 8th, at 6 pm at Yarmouth Town Hall, 400 Main Street.
Notice of Approval: Sewer Charges Bylaw
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This is to serve notice that the Council of the Town of Yarmouth, at its meeting on Thursday, June 12th, 2025, at 6:30 pm, at town hall, 400 Main Street approved the following:
Sewer Charges Bylaw
Council appoved amendments to the Sewer Charges Bylaw to increase the base rate and effluent rate 10% effective on bills issued after July 1, 2025, and increase an additional 4% on April 1, 2026 and 2027.
Dated June 26th, 2025.
The full Sewer Charges Bylaw can be found at townofyarmouth.ca/town-hall/bylaws.html
OPEN HOUSE INFORMATION SESSION
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Request to Permit Medical Clinic and Office Uses in Yarmouth Mall
Town Council Approves 2025-26 Operational Budget
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This year’s budget includes modest tax increases needed to maintain high levels of service to residents.
2025 Tree Planting Rebate Program
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The Town of Yarmouth will be offering cash rebates to residents and businesses towards the purchase price of trees planted within town. The intent of the program is to provide an incentive to Yarmouth residents to plant new trees as part of the town’s urban forest. The urban forest is vital green infrastructure which provides many benefits to us all, far beyond mere aesthetics. The Tree Committee’s urban tree planting program is encouraging residents to plant new trees in our community.
Under the rebate program, participants may apply for a rebate of 50% of the purchase price for up to ten (10) trees per property, to a maximum of $50 per tree! Labour costs to have trees planted are not eligible for the rebate. To qualify for the rebate, trees must have been purchased from a commercial retailer, be appropriate for our plant hardiness zone (Canadian Zone 5 or hardier), and a copy of the original sales receipt must be provided. The program runs between May 1, 2025 and September 30, 2025, or until program funding has run out.
Note: Norway maple and cultivars (Acer platanoides) will no longer be accepted under the tree planting rebate program!
Ash species (Fraxinus) will not be eligible for the rebate due to EAB!
How to Apply
To apply for the rebate, please download and complete the application form linked below. Paper copies are also available at Yarmouth Town Hall, 400 Main Street, during regular business hours. Completed applications must then be returned to Town Hall to be processed. Once the application is received, a site visit will be arranged to view the trees in the ground at the identified property. After a successful site visit, a cheque from the Town will be processed and mailed to the applicant.
pdf Tree planting rebate application 2025(211 KB)
Yarmouth's urban forest benefits us all, and it needs YOUR help to ensure its long-term health and sustainability. Urban forests are a front-line defense against global climate change and help manage stormwater runoff and flooding!
For more information about the program, please contact the Parks Department or parks.supervisor@townofyarmouth.ca
Suggested Trees for Yarmouth
Native Tree Species
- Red Maple
- Sugar Maple
- Red Oak
- Yellow Birch
- Ironwood (Tends to be a smaller tree)
- American Elm
- Linden
Evergreens (Avoid planting near power lines)
- White Pine
- Red Pine
- Red spruce
Other Large Trees to Try
- Tulip Tree
- Little Leaf Linden
- Silver Maple
- Dawn Redwood – (one in Doug Melanson Park is doing well. Another on Vaughan Crescent)
- Ginkgo
- Horse Chestnut - Pink or white flowering
Flowering Trees
- Laburnum (Golden Chain Tree)
- Japanese Cherry
- Korean Dogwood (Satomi Dogwood – pink; Milky Way – White)
- Eastern Redbud
- Magnolias – various colours - do well in Yarmouth
- Service berry (can tend to grow as a shrub)
- Seven sons tree – can be shrubby but good fall bloom and doing well in Yarmouth
Trees to avoid
- Ash – because Emerald Ash Borer is likely to show up and destroy our ash trees
- Beech – Native and American – Beech leaf mining beetle is here already
- Bradford Pear or Callery Pear – pretty but invasive
- Tree of Heaven – Invasive – roots damage infrastructure
- Norway Maple – invasive – commonly sold here
- Autumn Olive/ Russian Olive – invasive – think it is already in Yarmouth County