House - the Bog

The first in a series of posts of pictures of our new place - Ray was kind enough to wander around with a camera when he was over, and as his photographic skills far outweigh mine (i.e. he has any at all), I took the opportunity :)

This series is of the south side of the house, which has a sort of wide alley expanding out into the back yard. The tall wooden fence visible is actually screening off the street at the front of the property. To the left of these pix, is our neighbours house, screened with bamboo (and not having a window at all on that side of their house!) so is fairly private - unfortunately there is no actual fence in that section, so animals can wander in (or out) without hindrance, something we want to correct so we have a safe outside haven for the cats.




Unfortunately it also has a real boggy area, caused largely by runoff from the (slightly uphill) neighbours property, something we are currently exercised about solving ... Cat (of course) is researching and thinking of solutions, such as possibly a wetlands garden area, and/or a water feature, or ..... we shall see!

The current drainage ditch (vaguely visible) isn't really doing it, plus it gets clogged with soil erosion fairly rapidly.