Beginner Gardening: New House and Yard, 0 by sweezel

sweezel wrote:
Here's a picture of the whole back yard, standing from the the neighbor's incline behind the creek. You can't really tell from the picture, but the creek starts right below the big log. Since the south side of the lot does not go straight back, we only own 36.5 feet of actual creek front (compared with 147 feet of street frontage), but it's fine with me. The creek is more of a weed filled stream behind our lot, but it's just enough to give me a wildlife habitat behind the house.

The dirt mounds you see are four small trees we had planted a couple weeks ago. Behind the fence there is and area about 25 feet wide that is almost bare, because they stripped out all the trees when the put in the Gas Main 10 years ago. We planted two small bald Cypress close to the creek and two Texas Ash farther up the incline. One of the Texas Ash is probably in danger of being lost if they ever have to dig up the line, but we got them all for a great price ($30 each planted and guaranteed).