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01. 27.10.2004: Embankment and stream bed regulations on the overgrown Gablenzbach after a storm: attempts were made to widen, dig out and stabilize the embankment with stones. The photo was taken at the level of my garden entrance.
02 Align the garden edge after building the road with a layer of frost protection and sand. Firmly vibrated with `` self-made vibrating plate '' and leveled the level with the path using a spirit level. (05/27/2005). There was no talk of hedge planting anytime soon ...
03 Next flood: 06/12/1997. The handrail or its attachment in the stream turned into a floating debris barrier. Hours later nothing could be seen of the stairs; the sod slowed the flooding of the garden. - At least 1997 ...
04 Beginning of the `` flood of the century '' on August 12, 2008 around 4.30 p.m. Slab path about 4cm under water in the back of the garden at the breeding areas for autumn gentians - they suit!
05 Later everything swam here! The forecourt of my 'office' or 'functional building'! When it rains, pots or substrate mixtures are stored here; Boxes with plants for stock exchanges or markets parked.
06 About the same time between 4.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. on the Gablenzbach - flow direction Stollberg. 3 hours later, the message LAND UNDER! Is sent from the residential building in the immediate vicinity of the garden and by the stream.
07 The rest of my handrail on the garden.
08 Shortly before crossing the sward on the left, the level of the Gablenz reached its highest level. After my garden, the path was flooded! A "repair action" with "tar break" followed.
09 happiness! - Thanks to a grass hub that was a few cm higher, the water did not exceed this and therefore did not get into the garden! Due to massive rain, however, all gentian leaves had to be cleaned - sprayed with earth!
10 extreme opposites: an almost dry streambed before construction work on the way almost exactly to the day - only one year later (photo: 13.08.2003). At the left edge of the stream you can see remnants of bank protection, the attempt of which failed ... see Fig. 09
11 Neighbour's weeds - - emerging seedlings of them with me ... ...! - 07/30/2012
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14 The day the rain came ... This is followed by pictures from 08/08/2010 - one day later. On 21/22 the annual rock garden exchange takes place in Zwickau, for which I (usually) should start preparations now ...
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16 The meadow path - previously flooded - right next to my garden area, where it looks comparatively "good" ... The hedge - in 2011 incomprehensibly threatened by "demolition" ", acted as a" water brake ".
17 The consequences! - The meadow path in the lower area of ​​the garden: the overlay is washed away about 20cm. Only in XI / XII 2011 does it receive a stable reconstruction with a tar layer after making makeshift repairs.
18 `` The Day After´´ - The day after ...! Photo of the damaged bridge, which was also flooded. Left parts of the embankment wall of the former fortification work. All photos from the afternoon of 08/08/2010
19 Beginning of a series of photos of the devastation within gentian and primrose! The entrance area washed out or washed away - also visible in the middle of the path.
20 View of the front part of the complex: littered with floating debris.
21 Collecting flotsam - here from my second limestone area between primroses and carnations.
22 neighbor `Ê»under water´´. Emptying, cleaning and draining is the order of the day! (1)
23 Like 22 - only in our own fields. Completely clearing out my 'office' was called for, because standing 20cm was not enough to keep the water from spilling over into the arbor. First cleaning of the forecourt.
24 Back area! A thin layer of mud covers the floors of all attachments and other structures for storing pots, boxes and substrates. - Elimination with `` high pressure '' from the water hose!
25 Everything has to go! Here the `` broth '' stood approx. 25cm high and left its marks - see the following pictures ... The peat and TKS were really nice and damp ...
26 Floating debris / mud on primrose area II - All of those pots - as also partly shown by the following photos - stood for about 2 days and 2 nights in about 5cm high water. What about the waterlogging, which those plants don't like at all ...?
27 Main Path 2. Empty pots swam around; the newly constructed Sino parking area (center) was under water; the double-walled sheets put on as a precaution were of no use because the water above the ground softened the substrate!
28 The pots were 5cm in the water! The substrate was so softened that you could press on the top with your fingers and reach the bottom of the pot; the water ran out of the openings! Unless EVERYTHING was rotten, it had to be repotted!
29 Rear area with the quarters of potted plants. Their `` complete renovation '' included the removal and cleaning of all sidewalk slabs, pots and the fabric ...! Countless liters of water flowed from the water pipe ...
30 The quarter of the stemless gentians. Visible the dried gray mud layer on the leaves, which had to be brushed off / rinsed off (!) In order to bring ALL plants to the stock exchange on August 18th. to make it appear `` audience-friendly ''!
31 The same appearance in the quarters of the autumn gentians - only leaf cleaning turned out to be a problem due to their fine, narrow foliage ...
32 Redesign of the wayside along the garden by installing crushed sand. The material is tamped down with the self-made vibratory plate. - 08/10/2011
33 The lilac one day before its break: rain weighs on its leaves; the root volume is no longer sufficient for a secure hold; Wind does the rest ... (02/03/2010)
34 `` Corpses (pots) pave my way '' !. I may use the film title here ... Due to the amount of rain that has been falling since spring, a huge amount of potted plants rotted - mainly autumn gentians (June 2010)
35 See `` Flood Victims '' from Fig. 34! Soaked substrate - spread out to dry on double wall sheets placed in the way, in the wheelbarrow or in the sunlight - if it wasn't raining! (Photo: 08/26/2010)
36 Finally! After an approx. 10cm high layer of earth was removed as a rough subgrade, the meadow path was given an approx. Equally high tar surface on December 1st, 2011, which also made it necessary to re-align my garden edge.
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40 Protection with warm fleece from freezing, drying out by the sun and cold winds over pitching quarters (right) and propagation area of ​​G. angustifolia white-light blue and G. clusii Ê»Alboviolacea´ + G. acaulis Ê»Alba´ (04/16/2004)
41 Partly rotten at first; then parched by massive solar radiation: The rosettes of many plants of stemless gentians could be removed - 3rd week March / 2nd week. Week April 2003
42 Lifted out due to frost spikes or withered by sun and additional wind: Gentiana hybrids of the western Chinese ornamental gentian with roots on top (March / April 2003)
43 Hail storms: grains with a diameter of almost 4 cm! - Damage to my head could have occurred from taking photos during the hail ... - Photo: 07/05/2004
44 `` The Same Procedure As Every Year '' - only not on New Year's Eve - but in April. Depressed plants with shoots that died from the previous year and new shoots capable of flowering from the overwintering rosette (May 19, 2005).
45 Bitter loss of one of my selections: The weak, pure white `snow white 'RB with rot: dying shoots in autumn 2007. Even transplanting it into the growing medium could not save it.
46 Propagating roosts of the West Chinese ornamental gentians overgrown with liverwort. The `` canal '' - to put it in a friendly way - as it is painted every year, I decided to remove the plants and ...
47 Liverwort between Ghent. asclepiadea `Rosea´ seedlings (the same, which - according to their habit - and later look like G. septemfida ...) Note: The one with the leaves are the little plants ... (19.09.2009)
48 A special kind of damage: EINHELL cold frames are so robust that the roof and the side wall have to be weighed down / supported with everything that can be grasped so that they are not torn out of their `` brackets '' in the wind and thrown through the air ...
49 Note the "bracket / connection" of the roofs on the rain gutter above ... A square iron - thickness 5mm and 50cm driven into the ground - should protect the front side from otherwise safe breaking apart ...
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52 Apple tree - broken branch 24.07.2012 - see also "sub-photos"
53 Arbor without an apple tree! - The necessary felling took place after the branch broke at the beginning of October 2012. This allows the yellow-leaved Japanese maple to develop splendidly - see sub-picture. (Photo: 05.10.)
54 `` Fragments '' of formerly stable potted plants from Ghent intended for the (repeated) construction of plants. angustifolia light blue types (planted: November 25, 2012 after reviewing and "repotting" over 100 plants potted in June ...!)
55 `` Fragments '' intended for the (repeated) construction of formerly stable potted plants of Gentiana angustifolia light blue types (planted on November 25, 2012 after "repotting" of over 100 specimens potted in June)
56 `fragments´´ of the G. angustifolia light blue types and G. occidentalis` Àlba´ in the polystyrene box with potting soil (25.11.2012) under `` tense air ''. - Behind it young plants of wild forms of western Chinese gentians.
2013 - 2013 - 2013 - 2013 - - - - - - FURTHER IMAGES on the floods in May / June also on the pages `ʻVIEWS WIESE
57 04/17/2013: The consequences of the winter months - 1: The frost - like every year - has done its "job" ... Overturned pots, rotten plants and a deformed subgrade wait on the rear shelf for "damage repair" ...
57.2 04/17/2013: The consequences of the winter months - 2: Scattered labels that should be assigned to the (still) remaining autumn gentian varieties ...
57.3 April 17, 2013: The consequences of the winter months - 3: View of the enclosure, in which most of the autumn gentians only have the labels left ...
57.4 April 17th, 2013: The consequences of the winter months - 4: The fact that the pine unfortunately loses its needles does not contribute to an "elegant" appearance ...
58 May 31, 2013; Friday afternoon: View from the Gablenzbrückerl. - FURTHER RECORDINGS at `` WIESENWEG´´, `` STELLFLÄCHEN´´ and `` WORK '' under `` OTHER ''
58.2 May 31, 2013; Friday afternoon: View over the `Wilde Gablenz´ to the ANGER towards Mitteldorf. How about canoeing or whitewater rafting ?!
58.3 May 31st, 2013: Friday afternoon: The lower section is already flooded - however, in the next few hours until the evening the level drops by approx. 40cm, only to rise sharply at night and on the weekend ...
58.4 Erection of `` barricades '' against the expected water masses. Thuja branches and pavement slabs should prevent them from reaching over. However: what about the inevitable gaps?!?!
58.5 May 31, 2013; Friday afternoon: close-up! - FURTHER RECORDINGS also on the pages `Ê»VIEWS WIESENWEG´´,` `STELLFLÄCHEN´´ and` Ê»WORKING´´ (in the garden) under `` OTHER ''
58.6 31.05. - Friday afternoon: Location at the stairs to the brook (see `Ê»UNTERBILD´´) - The level reaches the substructure of the bridge over the Gablenz.
58.7 May 31 2013; Friday afternoon. Meadow path; top part. In the meantime it has been `` stabilized '' by a bitumen covering, at least it no longer `` washes out '' (cf. 16/17).
59.03.06.2013; Monday afternoon - as well as all subsequent recordings: Flood 2013: The worst is over - the apex has been reached or falls and ...
59.2 June 3rd: - ... the situation begins to normalize. In the lower area the water has withdrawn; but the way remains blocked.
59.3 06/03/2013: The rubber boots brought as a precaution - see Figure 59.2 - remain unused. But: you have better than you would have ...
59.4 06/03/2013: The stairs opposite the garden are (relatively) safe to walk on again even without `` flippers '' ...
59.5 June 3rd, 2013: The stairs to the creek in my garden - the level sank by approx. 40cm from the sward on the path to the level shown
59.6 June 3rd, 2013: Up to here the path was flooded (the line is visible; center of the picture) - the following photos ...
59.7 June 3rd, 2013: The `` walking aid '' was knocked down - but it was `` exposed '' again and at least served as a `` catcher '' of all kinds of floating debris ...
59.8 03.06.2013: Rinsed roadside - the `` substructure '' is `` exposed ''. This is how - or worse - it would have looked again over the entire length of the path without covering (cf. 16/17)
59.9. 06/03/2013: Flooded fork paws in the lower section. But it looks somehow close to nature and wildly romantic; or?!
60/1 - 04.06 .: Flooded Gablenzaue in the lower section. In the background the B 169, which was spared from the amount of water.
60/2 - 06/04/2013: The Wiesenweg shortly before its confluence with Hartensteiner Straße. The Gablenz flowed until the 1950s ...
60/3 - 04.06: ... into the Großer Fürstenteich immediately after the crossing, from which you ...
60/4 - 04.06 .: ... flowed out again. At the Fürstenteich. On the far left - below the sandbags - you can see its drain.
61 FURTHER SHOTS OF THIS WILL COME SOON .... See other FLOOD SHOTS on `Ê»VIEWS OF WIESENWEG´´,` `PITCHES´´ and` Ê»WORK´´ (in the garden) under `` OTHER´´
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59. 03.06.2013: A branch of the Acer drummondii hangs over the hedge from rain. On the way back: - Follow `` regeneration work '' on the partially `` drained '' potted plants on my rear space.
