Beginner Gardening: What's the view from your favorite perch? Show and tell..., 0 by UniQueTreasures

UniQueTreasures wrote:
Sticks, We moved in here in 1989 and the yard was already landscaped with one island. We've just created islands wherever we want them. I didn't really start getting my own plants until about 3-4 years after we moved in. I still had a very active toddler at that time and the yard was the least of my worries! HAHAHA

Thanks Pod, for the warm welcome. There's a lot more to my yard, small though it is. Not much to mow in my little slice of Texas. I'll have to post some here and there for you to see the whole thing. Let me say that it takes me about an hour to an hour and a half to water each evening.

Yes, we did have damage from Rita. There were 2 trees that fell. Both turned about 30 degrees as they came down and both landed on my house. One clipped the corner of the dining room without doing anything really major, other than cracking one of the beams in the attic. The other was about 12 inches from the edge of my house. One of the branches went through my daughter's bedroom.

Fortunately, she had already moved out, and I was basically using the room for storage for my ebay store. I wrote off everything that got water damage and started all over.

Unfortunately, several computers were stored in there. I was thinking that side of the house would be safe and before I evacuated, I moved lots of electronics to the bed that was in the room, just in case of flood.

Insurance paid for everything. Yeah Allstate!!!

Back to the fortunate side, my husband is a carpenter and isn't afraid of hard work. We'd just replaced the roof the previous year and insurance paid for a new one. So we had that done. Other than that, my husband has done all of the repairs to the house and also removed the trees. Well, he does still have half of the lower trunk on one of them. We had rain about 3 weeks straight where he couldn't saw away at it and the hole filled up with water. Now, it's almost below ground level, but there are a ton of weeds all around it, mixed in with portulaca and other stuff. I just ignore that section and enjoy the rest because there isn't much I can do to remove the tree. I ain't no chain saw kind of gal! HAHAHA

I miss those old trees. They sure provided a lot of shade in the yard. Considering the number of plants I have (hundreds of them) we didn't lose a single plant to the storm, other than those 2 trees. No one was home when the trees came down, so no one was hurt. God is Good.... all the time!

I'll post more photos tomorrow. If you'd like to take a tour of my yard before I get them all posted, you can check out my journal. In July, I put in about 275 photos.

Night View of the Deck