Weekly Garden Tour 28 September 2024 back yard

September is going out in the wettest possible way after hurricane Helene.

[dawashin]

I'm glad that you were spared from the destruction that happened in western NC and glad that you are taking the life lesson that nature will trump our garden plans and we just need to hold on and hang in there! Love that you are grateful and supportive of others!

[colleenpanholzer]

💦🌀wow there’s quite a bit of water 🙄😕, if I may suggest a pretty river rock dry bed would look very pretty along the border of your back fence down into the wetlands garden. I really love stones. They bring so much texture and beauty to a garden. Thank you for all you do and share. 🌈 💚

[willaerley]

I like the rainbow glass wall, but they don’t look too secure up there. A thunderstorm or heavy winds can shake the walls pretty good.

[denisemalueg]

Love the glass rainbow! You are correct, Mother Nature always wins. But maybe you could distract her with a bioswale upriver? In the white house backyard, on the far edge and along the back berm, create a proper bioswale or some sort of water management basin. It would slow the flow, at least. Plant roots & shoots are your best water management tools. This may be a good time to contact a landscape architect who specializes in rainwater management. Visit areas they have already created (and take us along by video). We all have some sort of water issues to deal with - and if not now, will in the future. The exposed tree roots can’t really be good for the trees either - not just trip hazards. I like a path thru the back area, but maybe a LA would have different options. Just a thought to consider…

In the front yards I noticed you have a culvert & ditch running along the road - does that ever fill with water? The builder thought of putting that in, but did not do anything to mitigate runoff in the backyards. 🫤 huh

[bonniejackson]

Hi Brie we had a French drain when we lived on the waterway and it helped greatly. We also have a home on Sugar Mountain. Right now my understanding is that Samaritan Purse in Boone is accepting donations. As someone else said thank you for the distraction. We are trying not to worry about the friends and neighbors we can’t reach. 😊

[paragraph_meadow]

Hey Brie, thanks for thinking of us and providing a nice distraction from this storm. We're in Johnson City, TN, and we got very lucky. But the town of Erwin about 15 miles from us saw catastrophic flooding from the Nolichucky River. It is estimated that the river crested at 8' above the historic elevation. This was amount of flooding wasn't just unexpected, it was unimaginable in this area. All the roads over the mountains into NC, including our major interstates into Asheville I-26 & I-40, seem to be destroyed in multiple areas and will take months to rebuild. For anyone that wants to help from out of town, a couple organizations to consider donating to are "Rise Erwin" or the "Appalachia Service Project" headquarted here in JC.