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Transform your shoreline, transform your legacy

March 29, 2025
Child standing by natural shoreline with native plants.

Natural shorelines increase property value, protect water quality, and create a meaningful legacy. The new standard in cottage ownership is working with nature.

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Natural Garden News from Grounded – March 29, 2025

March 29, 2025

Native plants for shorelines that flood, How plant sociability is critical, “Native plants are messy.” Is that true?

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How Plant Sociability Is Critical in Natural Gardens and Shorelines

March 24, 2025
Butterfly Milkweed

Understanding sociability could be the difference between a self-sustaining plant community and a landscape that fights its own nature.

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Native Plants for Shorelines that Flood

March 8, 2025

Many cottagers have shorelines that flood in the spring. Discover how to use native plants to make the most of the sogginess.

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Natural Garden News from Grounded – March 1, 2025

March 1, 2025

In praise of more: How natural gardens create abundance, Using disturbance in your landscape

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In praise of more

February 24, 2025
Me as a child

The new method of landscaping is about having more nature. And that makes us happy.

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How Natural Gardens Celebrate Abundance

February 24, 2025
Thousands of plants outside Lucas House, our HQ.

Nature is abundant. So are natural gardens. Here are four ways we celebrate “more” when we plant naturalistically.

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Natural Garden News from Grounded – February 1, 2025

February 1, 2025
A Canada Goose

Deter geese at your cottage using native plants, Work in progress: Gardens and shorelines on the drawing board

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Work in Progress: Natural Gardens and Shorelines on the Drawing Board

January 29, 2025
Drawing of a natural garden layout

Here are the designs of some of the natural garden and shoreline projects that are in our pipeline, ready to go from drawing board to soil.

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Deter Geese at Your Cottage Using Native Plants

January 25, 2025

Native plants can be a useful tool if want to deter geese at your cottage. Here’s a comprehensive guide.

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Growing a Green Renaissance

  • Nature is good. Let’s have more of it
  • Five Quiet Recognitions
  • Biggest Haliburton Natural Garden Questions Answered
  • Trapped on society’s mowercoaster ride: why lawns are an invisible cage
  • Shifting Baselines: The Legacy We Leave

Bringing Back Biodiversity

  • How much of a pond is beaver?
  • Why cottage landscapes are all about edges
  • What the 30-metre shoreline buffer really means
  • On hydro, roads, beavers… and you
  • Why Succession is Key to Naturalistic Landscape Design in Haliburton County