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Re: Hello from WA
« Reply #25 on: December 06, 2014, 12:04:55 AM »
 ok, so only the last photo actually was posted - so I guess only post one at a time.

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« Reply #26 on: December 06, 2014, 02:23:21 AM »
I'm re-posting my photos one at a time. This is the first one.  North on Creek - this was taken from the bridge of the same spring blossoms that I posted earlier.

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« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2014, 02:24:39 AM »
Photo #2. Flowering crab-apple - you can see the barn in the upper right corner

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« Reply #28 on: December 06, 2014, 02:25:35 AM »
Photo #3. 2/3rds of the front yard

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Re: Hello from WA
« Reply #29 on: December 06, 2014, 08:48:33 PM »
A lovely set of photos Annie and thank you for sharing them with us on the forum.

I can see you've been working hard on the borders in your front yard.
The planting looks quite mature.

I love that creek! That makes a perfectly natural feature in your garden  8)
Does it dry up in Summer time? I know you have much hotter summers than us in the UK.

Keep up the good work!
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« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2014, 02:46:35 AM »
Thank you, George. Everything looks nice in the Spring. It's the rest of the year that I struggle with.

I love that creek! That makes a perfectly natural feature in your garden
Does it dry up in Summer time?

I love the creek, too, and have tried lots of plantings, but they eventually get drowned out and/or washed away. We get so much rain that the creek floods at least once a year, sometimes twice. Our bridge is tied down so it won't float away. On a good flood we'll get 3 to 4 feet of water. Sometimes our house is surrounded by thigh-deep water. It's never come in the house but it's been inches away. Gets rather exciting at times, as we usually have maybe an hour's warning and we have to run around and batten things down, turn the cows out onto the hill, make sure the cats are all chased up into the hay loft, etc. The barn is lower than the house so it often gets 4 feet or so of water. A little disconcerting to have wooden boxes full of apples floating by.  ;D