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Dune Maintenance vs Lawn Care | Dune Doctors
Thriving landscapes are often the result of careful planning and consistent maintenance. Coastal property owners have stewardship over two outdoor areas: their recreational yard and their protective dune ecosystem. Even if there are a few similarities to how these environments are best cared for, the differences are numerous and need to be addressed in two separate environment-specific plans. To learn about the seven major differences between what we call the white landscape (the dune ecosystem) and the green landscape (a manicured yard planted in composite soil), click here. The biggest difference between coastal dune maintenance and lawn care can be found in how the environments respond to irrigation. Watering your coastal vegetation may result in superficially healthy plants but will, overtime, compromise the integrity of your protective dune.
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Your Roadmap to Coastal Resiliency
Property Managers
Provide your board members with access to the highest quality dune-building grasses, sand-fence installation, and dune maintenance available. Dune Doctors manages all aspects of the project and works directly with regulatory authorities and contractors to deliver a streamlined restoration process.
HOA Board Members
Dune Doctors helps reduce the storm damage risks your water-front community and infrastructures face. Our long-term, storm resiliency plan also accounts for preserving and enhancing your dune’s natural beauty by maintaining your coastal vegetation. Proactive communities start building protection long before the next storm comes.
Property Owners
Dune Doctors provides customized, long-term solutions to your recurring erosion challenges. Protect your coastal investment by enlisting our coastal restoration experts to strengthen and maintain your natural protective barriers. Dune Doctors directly handles all required permitting and regulatory requirements.
Government
Dune Doctors streamlines all restoration projects with clear, strategic planning that optimizes resources to deliver the industry’s highest guaranteed plant survival rate at 96%. With over 20 years of successful project implementation, Dune Doctors partners with regulating authorities to achieve sustainable results by using plants native to the area being restored.