I've been working on my shoreline buffer for four years now. I started with a small section and added another each year. I made sure to leave wide paths between sections for foot traffic and to make rotational burning easier. Each section was planted with plugs I grew both indoors, under lights, and outdoors, using the winter-sowing method. Generally, I grow grasses indoors, because they do not require stratification, and forbs outdoors, because many do require stratification. I've found that most of my plugs produce flowers and seed the first year. Here are some photos from last season:

Growing indoor grasses

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Winter-sowing forbs

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Plugs in early spring, planted in dead sod

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Previous year's plants emerging in early spring

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Shoreline photos

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