Sunday, November 22, 2009

Melbourne & Palm Bay area

This is the front of the house, needs to be cleared of overgrown vegetation! Yes that is a fireplace chimney right next to the front door! Weird I know!

These are some photos we took of older neighborhoods in Melbourne/Palm Bay area while house hunting. I loved the houses on this street and would have put in an offer on the spot for one, BUT there is a hiring freeze on for my husband's job transfer... so with that on hold, we just can't make a decision now.
Loved the tall Oak trees that provide such a lot of wonderful shade in the summer in this area. This is an older golf-course community.

This large vine growing (like Elephant leaf size) vines on one of the tall Oaks, this shot up about 25 feet up.


The spanish moss was so thick on some of the branches of the old Oak trees! I think you can take this off to use to amend the sandy soil for cultivating your garden beds.

Above was the front yard of the house I liked. No one lives there now and the property is being maintained, the clean up of the landscaping was scheduled for after Thanksgiving, so it was a bit overgrown (can't egnore landscape long in the summer there) it grows very fast.

Below: shows a drainage canal that backs one section of the street. The water is run-off water and so not safe for fishing (eating the fish) but some people naviagate it with small watercraft for fun.
There is a gully this is in, and the other bank shows how low this water is compared to the elevation of the yards.

Below: the back yard of the house I loved and am interested in. Yes that is a pool enclosure!


Closer look at that pool enclosure and to the right of it where the garden shed is just behind the tree.


Below, a close up of the Spanish Moss that grows and collects on the trees in this older Florida style neighborhood.


Places in Meboune area to see more of the local vegetation.
Spanish moss shown on this site along with more of the area's wet landscape.

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