Resources
FOVLAP encourages lake property owners to retain existing vegetation and to add natural vegetation to their shoreland, since this is the best and lowest cost approach to protecting lake health. In 2014, through our Vermont Fish and Wildlife Watershed Grant, we are once again working with 8 lake associations and 40 property owners to plant blueberry bushes on their shores. Find out more about vegetated buffers, blueberries, native plants, and butterfly gardens:
- Buffers for Blue Lakes – what is a buffer and what does it do?
- Blueberry buffer information – planning, planting, and care of blueberries; where to find blueberry plants
- A Guide to Healthy Lakes Using Lakeshore Landscaping – Design templates and easy-to-use planting plans – FOVLAP’s new booklet with simple planting plans and native plant information
- Lakes Like Less Lawn – three sample landscaping plans – from the Portland Maine Water District
- Six native plant lists for sunny/part sun/shady and moist/dry sites – from Maine Department of Environmental Protection
- New England broad-leaved woody plants – shrubs for your shore – from the New England Wildflower Society’s GoBotany website
- Learn about butterfly gardening and join the North American Butterfly Association’s butterfly garden certification program
- Butterfly gardens – plant suggestions for upstate New York – from the North American Butterfly Association
Echinacea and phlox
Columbine
Woodland meadow
Daisy fleabane
Grass-leaved goldenrod
Rudbeckia
Pagoda dogwood
Blueberries at Elmore Roots
Blueberries at Elmore Roots