Developing a Planting Plan: Identifying Target Plant Communities

In "Reading Your Shoreline" you surveyed your own lake as well as lakes in your region, and you identified plant communities native to your area.

As you refer to this information to develop your planting plan, keep in mind the particular shoreline zone for your lake as well as the characteristics of your property that you identified earlier, such as sandy soil.

SELECT About Native Plant Communities to learn more about the plant communities that would naturally have occurred on your property. Use these communities as benchmarks for designing each shoreline zone and selecting the species that grow in those zones.