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Lawn with trees, plants, and flowers in front of residential houses. Two houses are visible, one beige with large windows and another black with garage doors, with a few people outside. A stone pathway is in the foreground.

Native Plantings - Pine Lake

The owners of this lakefront property were lovers of native plants and low maintenance wild gardens, so they chose to implement two native plantings and a biobag shoreline stabilization. Read more about the biobag install here.

Two grants were utilized for these plantings, including a DNR Healthy Lakes grant and a Shawano County grant. Square footage totaled 1,993 sq. ft. of restored shoreline.

The soil here was sandy with plenty of pine trees shading the area. Native plants that prosper in sandy soil and part-shade were therefore selected for the plantings. Some of our favorites include Wild Lupine, Butterfly Weed, and Indian Grass.

Yellow-orange clustered flowers growing among green leaves and grass.
Lupine flowers with a bumblebee on one of the purple blooms in a garden or field, with green trees in the background.
Close-up of wild grasses and yellow flowers in a natural meadow with green trees in the background.

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Young plant in soil with a white plant label and outdoor houses in the background under a blue sky.
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