Shadegarden, I do the same thing with the leaves. I have enough leaves to cover the entire neighborhood. When I first moved in I had 11 trees dropped and I still have at least 30 trees around the house. The trees in the woods behind the house blow up to add to the leaves from the 30 trees and I have mounds and mounds of leaves.
Jersey I guess why I keep trying to figure out why they died other than the weather because we had more snow than we have ever had in 40 yrs and it was below 0 from Jan - March. It was a horrible winter for me too and the only thing I lost was the Coral Bells but that is nothing new. I loose most of them every year. I started only buying them if they are on sale and will not pay anymore than 4.00. So they are only the cost of a annual before I put my money down on them.
