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Above Average Rain This Spring

April 19, 2011

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This year's spring rain fall has been above average, and many small creek which have been dry for years are running again.

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McClelleanville, 19548, 123 Cassini St.

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High Hampton Rock Mountain Room 9-2011

High Hampton Inn's bar is the "Rock Mountain Room". It has a patio and garden with a water fall fountain. The purpose of the garden is to hide the kitchen area and the fountain provides white noise which mask the kitchen fans. Views from the patio are to the north where you see Rock Mountain, Hampton Lake and the golf course, a beautiful vista. During the winter weeds were removed from the garden. Both mint and Queen Anne"s lace were getting out of control along with binders vine. The standard hydrangeas were cut back and staked as were the rhododendrons. Some parts of the garden had been lost to grass so they were reclaimed and amended with compost. The entire area was mulched with double ground hardwood bark. Annuals were planted in April and pots of Dragon wing Begonias and white Scavola were put on the rock wall. A Dahlia bed was add to hide a cottage. There have been some problems with the garden this summer: Holly Hocks got rust early, The

Who Done It In The Hen House...

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