Ecological treatment for new home in the Dunes at Miller Beach, IN.
In 2023 our company helped a new homeowner building in the Miller section of Gary, to stabilize their dune, which had been cut into, to create their new yard and home. While sand will likely still shift and blow, this project’s use of native dune grass and ‘old-fashioned’ snow fencing – to create and trap a base of sand at the fence line, providing an anchor for the shoots of dune grass, will reduce the blowing and slumping sand, which had been flowing into our clients home, yard and pool.
Beyond native dune grass, GPGD installed native red-osier dogwood shrubs, native sand cherry shrubs, native sand willow shrubs and little bluestem grass. We are working hard, together with the client’s goal and personal commitment, to surround the home in plants that are native to this northern Indiana, dune setting.
A quick note on this and on not taking short-cuts or, put another way, not treating plantings as an after-thought, once the house is built: A friendly contractor who helped install this project, thought he could plant up the hill with some leftover Burning Bush shrubs, which would have been an ecological disaster (not native and also … invasive!). I add this comment here because there are too many high-end and high-powered contractors completely uneducated about installing a *native*, high-quality habitat garden. Green Plumb Garden Design, however, has decades of knowledge and training to produce top results, for your home and for long-lasting ecological gains.
