Posts Tagged ‘native species’
Protecting the Lake: Buffer Gardens, Rain Gardens, and Shoreline Planting
Having a “natural” shoreline with native plants and stones is probably the best thing you can do to protect the lake. The Conservation Commissions strongly discourage walls, preferring more natural slopes filled with stone and native plants. A buffer garden is a planted or wild vegetated area along the lake that functions to filter runoff,…
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