Herewith an update to this project. The steepest side of the hill had finally all filled in by the end of the third summer. I received an award from my local municipality for the project. About a month after I received the award, I got notice of a large construction project scheduled for the next summer, along with a hefty property tax assessment. I immediately contacted the municipality and construction manager to inquire whether my landscaping would be at risk, since it abuts the sidewalk on both sides of the corner. I was assured there wouldn't be a problem. However, they did not tell me that one of the utility companies would be replacing lines and would be removing the sidewalk on one side--I simply arrived home one evening to find the east side of the garden about 90% destroyed. I sat down in the dirt and cried for hours. I won't bore you with the details of the summer from hell, but the icing on the cake was when the sidewalk was finally replaced at the end of the summer, about two tons of the boulders that had been sitting around were tossed on top of the few plants that had survived. Everyone told me that I would have no chance of getting any of this fixed, but I had good photographs of the landscaping before the project, and had taken photos of the various stages of damage. Long story short, they did have to pay a landscaper to do a restoration. Of course, you can't restore mature landscaping, but we did what we could. The hill is starting to fill in again now after again battling erosion for a couple of years. It's not really my own creation any more, either, but what can you do?
Anyway, here are some photos of the corner from the last couple of weeks. I still have one or two problem spots, and I decided to move the bush clematis; it's protesting a bit, but it will come back. And my large groundcover junipers suffered terribly this winter, as all the evergreens in this area did, so I cut them way back. I don't know if they will even recover; only time will tell.
