It's about time too! and it will only get better until the first frost. It has been raining buckets and buckets of rain here for the last two days, Charleston is flooded in many areas!
X
Brugs finally starting to look good with everything else!
This picture is a screen capture from the Post & Courier.
Great looking brugs... yes it's starting to look good here... I love the sigle row of tropicals in the plantings you made... I some times have them two or three deep.. and by summers end the poor ones in the back are so shaded..
Oh .. It must be Charleston..I think in Venice they have it down.. where the roads and canals are in diffrent places.. what is it it with engieering here.. Gordon
Your yard is so green and lush looking, X! Your corner brug is just HUGE!!
Just 2 days of rain produced all of that flooding? Did your yard flood too?
Thanks!
It was just 6 hours of rain that flooded Charleston! My house is lucky enough to butt up to the drainage ditch and we have good percolation here. The ditch really isn't a ditch anymore since it's been here over 30 years, almost a rill with elephant ears, arrow heads and other aquatic plants in it. I'm tempted to throw some aquatic canna in there! Actually kind of pretty.
The brugs are about 10 feet tall now and still growing and I haven't fed them. I'm scared to think how big they'd be if i did feed them.
Gordon, Charleston is a decaying city with ancient sewers. The only reason it's still standing is that the termites are holding hands. Beautiful on the outside but rotting on the inside. Really sad. When I worked downtown a few years ago, we weren't allowed to flush the toilets when it was high tide. Really! Charleston regularly floods when it rains, but not to this degree.
X
The story of Charleston sounds very sad. I have a friend who is considering moving there, will have to tell her about this.
But, most importantly, your garden looks gorgeous!!
Make sure you tell her of the trained termites, a real draw. LOL
Good grief X, what will the Charleston Chamber of Commerce say? Remember, the Holy City is so sanitary even the carriage horses wear diapers.
Poor Charleston had the very first sewer system in the US and it is still the same one! However, they are presently tunneling for a new state of the art system and hopefully everyone will be able to freely flush soon. LOL
Kell, the trained termites would most definitely be a selling point!
It's just sad. It's happening all over because people are leaving the "old and small," for "new and big." I admit, I did it myself. I moved from my house that is now 98 years old and 900 square feet, to a house that's 14 years old and 1,800 square feet. I am trying to uphold the "old and small" part though, because I now rent that house out and it has been repainted and looks good. It's sad.
Anyway, this is probably all for another forum. :( I'm sad, X, that things are deteriorating so badly and nothing's being done in your charming, historic area.
Hmmmmm, that is not exactly what is happening in Charleston. Real Estate is hot, hot, hot. Trouble is the people with many millions to buy these homes all seem to have permanent homes elsewhere and they are buying up the beautiful homes and using them only a few weeks a year as vacation places. The neighborhoods have just lost their flavor with all those empty homes sitting there. You are far more likely to see the landscapers and housekeepers than the absentee homeowners. Still, I lived there in the 60's and would move back in a skinny minute if I could afford to.
They call this area the Lowcountry for a good reason; with our gazillion rivers and 8 to 9 foot tides we are lucky we ever dry out. And, as for those trained termites, they have nothing on our Palmetto Bugs. :-)
yeah .. palmetto bugs .. live performances nightly!
X
Xeramtheum
You are right not to feed that Brug, it would have taken over your house!! All kidding aside, it is beautiful. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Judy