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Hmm. 50-150 mm tomorrow for us, up to 50 today and up to 50 Saturday.
We're on a hill so lucky ducks but last time we got 10% of the year's rain in a day quite a lot of trees up and died.
@naevaTheRat @ajsadauskas Plant some casuarina trees. They don't mind wet feet and are drought tolerant. Added bonus they make spooky whoosing sounds during storms.
got powerlines over the property so height limited. Probs not a terrible idea though if we can find dwarf cultivars. The flowering natives tend to be a bit sensitive to wet feet (although the teattrees do great)
Try out bottlebrush, not sure of the variety but they're one of the trees that does very well on riverbanks and can survive being underwater for 5 days just fine.
They also grow pretty slowly and aren't a massive tree unlike the casuarina.
They love growing on river banks and often go under in floods. A good nursery should be able to point you in the right direction.
They also grow stupid fast. Most of our river banks are casuarina, bottlebrush and ironbark (the right variety of bottlebrush may be a better bet if you want a smaller tree and flowers)