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Backyard Buffers

Buffer Restoration is an easy fun way to help protect the area’s waterways from pollution and erosion. By converting lawn to landscape beds and planting trees, shrubs, perennials and ground covers on the following lists along the water’s edge, you can help filter pollutants and sediments from storm runoff and provide habitat and food for wildlife. The plants on this list are very hardy and do not require much fertilizer or pesticides.

Perennials:

False Indigo
Threadleaf Coreopsis
Purple Coneflower
Joe Pye Weed
Blue Flag Iris
Beardtongue
Black-eyed Susan
Goldenrod

Shrubs:

Summersweet Clethra
Inkberry Holly
Virginia Sweetspire
Southern Waxmyrtle
Rugosa Rose

Grasses:

Variegated Sweet Flag
Muhly Grass
Switch Grass
Sea Oats

Trees:

Red Maple
River Birch
Eastern Redbud
White Fringetree
Southern Magnolia
Sweetbat Magnolia
Willow Oak
Yaupon Holly
Bald Cypress

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