Specialty Gardening: Garden Shots 2- Summer's here, keep those pics coming!, 0 by LeawoodGardener

LeawoodGardener wrote:
I don't want to give a misleading impression - I was THRILLED the creek project was planned (when we bought the house in 2000, we were told the project would begin 'in a few weeks' - it actually started in spring, 2005 and finished in March, 2006). I was the first neighbor to sign the City's easement, giving them the land because the creek frequently flooded into my yard and had actually filled the basement twice (once in the 1970's and once in 1996). It was definitely to my benefit to have the creek widened and my yard is big enough I knew I wouldn't miss the land. My goal was to build a border garden along the creek once the remodeling was done, so I told the city not to replace the grass they took out. As a result, I now have a border garden that runs the full width of my yard.

Here is a photo from across the creek, taken 6/29/09.