Yessss! I am so glad to hear that. I never thought I'd see the day I'd be glad not to get rain. We've suffered through several years of drought, so I guess now we've gone to the other extreme. I bet my hostas will be looking great this year....

Rainy and cloudy all day !!?:
And it will be COOOOld for a good while, too.

Hi from Powder Springs (Cobb Co.) Have not been on GardenWeb for a couple of years, but glad to be back. I went to one of the plant swaps you organized 3-4 yrs. ago - do you still do this? Victoria

victorias garden -- Hi and welcome back! We had a GREAT plant swap back...when was it y'all...about June or so last year? Got some good plants and had a great time! There may have been other swaps since then, but that was my first one. Hubby and I really enjoyed it!

Victorias-garden,
Welcome back. For plant swap, it is a bit too early.
Right now it is freezing cold and there are no plants to swap. My seeds have not even germinated. BUT plant swap is a good idea. We will see in April or may.

Haha! I was just thinking about starting a new thread about a spring swap. Great minds think alike, eh?

Very glad to hear about the several days of sunshine! Maybe this will give us a chance to get our French drains and dry creeks done before the next rain!

it was so windy today, i couldn't enjoy it!

They are saying 90 percent chance of snow down here in South Ga tomm.. What a winter..Hurry Spring..
Casey

pam 3 -- I know this is a little off-topic, but I have a couple of questions about your french drains and dry creek beds. Probably most of y'all know from my posts that we have RIDICULOUS drainage problems at our house and we have been slowly working to fix them. We have some drains put in...working on a couple more. First of all, are you doing your dry creek bed yourself? Or is someone putting it in for you? If you are doing it yourself, I have a stupid question: where do you "start" it? I mean, I want ours to look very natural and we already have the natural hill and the water already runs down it in a particular way...we just want to help it and make it look nicer. But, I'm having trouble figuring out...where the top of it should "start?" Will it look weird that it just starts where the water starts to run? In other words, it doesn't start in someone else's yard and run through ours to a community drain. It would start in our yard (sort of in the middle on the side) and run down our hill to a rain garden at the bottom (a good 20 feet before it would approach our neighbor's property in the woods, so that we're not running the water onto their property). But, will that look weird?

The guy who is doing our drains is not a landscaper, but a drainage specialist and we really can't afford a big landscape budget...therefore, we really want to do it ourselves. Plus, I think the plantings along the bed will be fun to do!

We have had similar problems mk87, and we consulted a friend who is a landscape architect. He planted the drainage basin in Glenwood Park off of Glenwood Ave in Atlanta if you live close, take a look.

I was really hoping to have the plant trade here again this year and show off our new back yard. I know everyone would have been amazed at the changes...however, unless you bring life jackets, I don't think it will be ready :)
Turns out our french drains aren't enough and we are getting ready to do some MAJOR digging and install heavy cement drainage units as soon as we can. Sigh. I really wanted to get all of this planted, fenced patioed and ready!
Maybe in the fall (wishfull thinking :)

GGG

mk87--I don't think that will be weird. Could you do plantings around the start in the middle part of your yard? Esh put a link on another thread of images for ideas. you can just google dry creek bed and select images.

We are doing the work ourselves (read: cheap husband! He doesn't even want someone to come look at the yard to give us ideas.) We have two long, deep trenches now and may add one more. We are still working on width and depth. And then adding weed cloth, gravel, pipes, stepping stones or bigger rocks on top. Then maybe some raised beds. It's a HUGE project, but worth it to make the space usable and get rid of erosion. I am also excited about doing the plantings myself. I'm kind of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, because it's obvious that the trenches are working!

GGG, I'm disappointed not to see your amazing yard this year, but totally understand and can sympathize. Maybe fall!

Looks like we have to go through a couple of snow days before we get to the good weather. Lets hope that this is the last of the snow for this year. Like everyone else I can't wait for the spring. My seeds have arrived and I really want to plant some, but know that I will have to wait a couple more weeks

ggg -- We are in Macon, but we get up to Atlanta a couple of times a month. We will definitely check out the Glenwood Park project. I so-o-o-o-o understand how you feel about your drainage project taking forever. We just got our big patio built last year and I can't even WADE out there to get patio furniture put togther...OR plant anything, because it is so soggy and icky. Deep ruts from tractor tires that filled up with water over the winter and etc. And, our drainage guy actually is having trouble getting his on-foot crew out there to do his thing too. Sigh...

pam 3 -- Yes, that's what I was sort of wondering if I could do...maybe put some large grasses or shrubs right around the start of it, to sort of "disguise" the fact that our newly installed drains are dropping off into it, etc? I will check out esh's link too. If we don't dry out pretty soon though, I won't be doing ANYTHING. Our friend with the tractor doesn't mind helping to dig, but at this point, he can't even drive the tractor OUT there to dig because it's such a sloppy mess. :( Your project sounds really nice. I hope ours lives up to the idea in my head!

mk, if you can't get a crew out there in Byron to do your work, just lemme know. I might be of help getting you someone together. My BIL and FIL are builders in Byron and have crews they can access. I only wish it didn't cost so much to get the machines up here to work (or the men) because I could surely use a larger crew to knock this thing out when the time comes!

Add two days of snow to that.lol!
I love snow. Now my cool crops are covered with a white blanket of snow.

Hey, at least it's sunny :)

The sun is destroying a beautiful winter landscape. Everything was white and pristine and now the Uglies are beginning to re-emerge!
Hope my Camellias recover. They have a huge load of snow and are drooping almost to the ground

ggg --- We are in Macon, but Byron's close. Do your BIL and FIL do drainage work or are they landscapers?

MK, my family are home builders so they can do pretty much everything and anything start to finish. Whatever needs to be done. There has been a lot less work there for them since things have slowed down. They normally build mid-range custom homes and do their own grading, drainage etc.