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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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Enhancing Beauty: A Haliburton Cottage Garden

December 4, 2024
It is important to watch out for our local wildlife when working on cottage gardens.

Haliburton cottage gardens come in all shapes and sizes. Here are some traditional sunny and part-shaded garden beds, all with native plants.

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Garden by the Lake: A Natural Cottage Shoreline Landscape

October 8, 2024

Plants can do many things. Here’s a recent cottage shoreline project that played several roles.

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Sedge Meadow: Native Plants for Shade at the Cottage

September 30, 2024

Many cottage landscapes are in shade or part-shade. And many are on slopes. Here’s a solution using native plants for that kind of site.

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Sunny Prairie: Native Plants on a Cottage Septic Bed

September 29, 2024

Your cottage septic leach bed can become wonderful native plant gardens. You just have to choose the right species.

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Life on the Edge: Adding Native Plants to a Cottage Woodland Clearing

September 23, 2024
Forest naturalization in Haliburton County

You don’t have to start afresh. Here’s an example of native plants added to a cottage woodland clearing.

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Making Gardens

  • What direction is your land going in?
  • The Myth of Finished
  • The dirty secret about poor soils
  • Sunny landscapes that attract pollinators
  • Professional Native Plant Landscaping for HOA Communities, Condominiums, and Happy Neighbours

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