Originally Posted by RAH
If you go the emergent plant route, you will likely need a maintenance company who's main service is not mowing grass. Of course, a native edge comes with native wildlife (often including muskrats).

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I like your pictures. This is what one of our ponds looked like in 2013, about 2 years after they were dug.

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