This is the entrance to our backyard taken in 2007. Our neighbors decided to put a dry stacked wall on their side yard, fill it in and grass the area. They never asked us if it was okay. Until then, the grass gently rolled down and into their backyard. They used the cheapest river sand fill and put grass over it. The first rain sent the sand gushing thru the rocks. They had someone come in and poke some concrete between the rocks on our side. What they didn't tell us was that they had built up the ground inside their back fence to match their patio. The water off the grass only had only one way to go after it hit that fence, over the wall and into our backyard.
The lattice enclosure on the left of our sidewalk was covered in vines to hide our ACs and garbage cans. I planted monkey grass to try to keep the water from washing across to the ACs. The mud covered the roots of everything I planted there. Nothing will grow unless it is in a pot.
They were going to "fix" it. Instead, we had to have a limestone walk built to keep from sliding in mud going from front to backyard.
Side yard in back
Rest of garden behind house
Lattice enclosure
Attempt to keep water from wall from drowning our grass
So that was then...and this is 2010 as the sand/mud slowly killed all our grass on the side.
I placed rocks to try to keep the water and muck out of the bed. It just went around.
And so we replaced the grass in July, 2010
And the new grass was dead in October, 2010
May 2016, the mud crossed our patio and smothered the grass
behind the house.
And February, 2017, I had a meltdown...
