Specialty Gardening: Continuation of Cottage Gardens...., 0 by Murmur

Murmur wrote:
Doggone it, I had a rather lengthy thing written and I accidentally closed out dg and lost it!! LOL

Donna, thanks for the concern - we are lucky here, we're in a rain shadow from the Olympic Mountains and get far less rain than the rest of the PNW. And we are on a good slope and have a drainage ditch at the back of the property (I have renamed it Murmuring Creek - my "grandma" name is Murmur).

This picture was taken from my deck and gives a bit of an idea of the creek, although it's full of grass at the moment (not to mention that variegated grass that I put on the edge on purpose!). The property on the other side is not mine, although I obviously am moving in a bit with my cardboard and my re-potted plants!! When the owners of that property clear cut the alders two years ago, it was devastating - they left all the scrap in tall piles . . . it looked like a bomb had hit. I had a party for my 60th birthday and invited friends to go out there with me and sow wildflower seeds. I thought it was going to be quite a success, but didn't realize how the thistle, nettles, blackberry vines, tall grass, etc. would take over. So it's quite a disaster. I would like to at least clean up the area along the creek on the other side. The arch I got recently (a freebie - don't you just love those?) and is really tall. I put it in by myself which would probably have made America's Funniest Videos if someone had been filming me!

I did get the owners to leave a small grove of alders for me, which surprisingly enough they did.