We were flooded with salt water. It corrodes everything in its path. Everything man-made, that is. Like pipes, cars, electric wiring, nails. That sort of thing.
So it’s been most interesting to see which plants came up this year. As well as which ones, now, seem to be dead. Most of the bulb flowers came up as usual. Some of the perennials didn’t come back, like daisies and purple coneflowers. (But truth be told, they could be choked-out this year by the flowering weeds that I’ve not bothered to weed from the beds.) My many-year-old lavender seems to have drowned, as have all the evergreens in the immediate vicinity, including the 75-foot blue spruce in our front yard. Do evergreens just play dead, and then resurrect? (Doesn’t matter with the Christmas tree out front – it’ll have to go if/when we demolish. I’m so sad!)
The rootball is no longer a huge open wound. It is now a scab. Bear has had at it with a shovel and a Sawzall and has greatly reduced it. But we are going to have to get rid of the the stump and the tangle of roots if we’re going to do anything to the yard some day. Perhaps a spring-flowering tree?
What grows good in salt water, in case this happens again?