sunshine

This is my first yr planting brus sprouts and I have great plants but no sprouts whats up?

I am concerned about the willow because of the root system, I heard about barberry? and dogwood bushes also was advised to plant on a mound of dirt not to drown the plants when first planting so they can get a good root hold.........we have diverted the water but it just isnt draining fast enough not make such puddles what do you all think of these plants, I listed?

water is standing after rain, we always have really green grass even in the middle of summer,but right now its just so mushy and mowing grass at any time is a muddy mess

I have learned you get alot of mosquitoes with willow tree

We have a very wet stretch of our back yard, our neighbor has an underground broken drain pipe(which carries water off their house when it rains) which runs of course down hill and we get the run off into our yard, we have installed french drains which carries the wet away from the house but now part of our yard is still very damp and mushy , what kind of tree or bushes can we plant that like alot of water?