iT'S AWFUL HERE.
I'm so unhappy. I got hooked up with the local Bradford Woods Conservancy and they were thrilled to get all the boxwoods and almost completely burned hostas (from being planted against a house in FULL SUN), brown eyes susans, coral bells, blue fescue and lamb's ears for their perennial sale fund raiser today. They also helped me clean out 10 yerars of junk in the back and tons of candy tuft. But the front of the house where the best sun is is just a mess. Someone put in heavy black plastic, 2 layers of HUGE river rock and then over the years other owners have covered that with small river rock and black mulch. Digging is almost impossible and the ground is so far above grade that the mulch is 6 inches above the bottom of the siding. I have so many perennials in DuBois waiting to come down here but planting is going to have to be delayed until I can get the landscaper for the condo assoc. in here to fix the grade to go down from the condo and not toward the condo foundation. I dug yesterday with them getting the perennials out and it felt so good to get back into the soil. But I'm very discouraged and very very depressed about the current state of this place. They pay a small fortune to a landscaping service that must employ idiots.
I knew I had it great in DUBois. The soil on the eastside is dreamy! But I never imagined anything could be this bad. I'm sure if I ask the conservancy people, now that they have invited me to be a member, they would dig those rocks out for me but I still can't plant anything until the grade is fixed and from what I understand from the neighbors, they won't do anything unless you just about take them to court.
And now that PSU football season and Steeler season is in full swing I can't count on my kids either.
SO, it's going to be a challenge.
Back to the willows, it's strange that they like a lot of water but can't live in clay, huh?