In downtown Havre de Grace, a 17-foot-tall living fence graces the front and one side of the highly visible water treatment plant.Hundreds of newly planted perennials such as bugleweed and lily turf climb the fence along with coral and trumpet honeysuckles. Ornamentals such as switchgrass and deciduous shrubs like St. John’s wort provide ground cover along the nearly 200 feet of specially constructed metal fencing.“The plants will bud during different seasons, so when they mature, we will have flowers of various colors on the fence all year long,” says Bill Reeder, deputy director of construction and program management for the
