The Storm

 A few weeks ago we had a terrible storm. Overnight trees toppled down right, left and centre. The wind howled, and the rain lashed down, and in the pitch black there was no way of knowing where they fell.

Needless to say, in the morning it was complete mayhem, with roads cut off, and trees laying by the roadside and all over the place like felled skittles.

Well today, several weeks on, people are still clearing up. We had a tree subside into next door's garden. As it was down the side of the house we didn't see it immediately, but discovered a bit later that it had uprooted and fallen mostly over the fence. We were left with just the root ball up in the air, and still growing completely unscathed were the Agapanthus, attached to the base of the tree, only now they are considerably taller than the rest!

It has been so wet that it has been impossible to do much, but the tree has been sliced up into huge logs, and as we can't move them, I now have to put my mind to the problem of how to incorporate them into the landscape, making them as attractive and unnoticeable as possible!!  Sounds impossible?  Probably it is, but hopefully when Spring comes and things start to grow, I shall be able to disguise them with extra planting. One can but hope!

So finally I have taken a few snaps of the situation. We also had large branches of Wattle from their garden come over the fence in our direction, and over the last week I have managed to dodge the persistent showers and gradually clear it all away. At last that has been put to rights.

Here are the belated pictures...once more dodging the showers to take them!

The stump of the trunk with Agapanthas still attached to the roots

They seem welded to the tree roots and are impossible to dig out!

Some of the logs about which I shall have to be creative

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