In my experience, when trees, shrubs, or other plants are planted properly transplanting shock just doesn't happen. Of course, the yellowing is due to 'stress ', but we have no idea what may have caused the problem. There are lots of mistakes to make along the way. Planting too deeply, adding lots of amendments to the planting hole, the site is not watered properly afterwards (too much or too little), the site does not drain properly, etc.

Ideally I'd think you want a variety of shrubs, evergreen and deciduous, rather than a row of one thing. You can plant perennials in between to give you a bit more privacy during the summer. A rambling rose would be nice. Red-twig dogwood (I like the one with the variegated leaf), yellow-twig dogwood, shrub roses, all kinds of vibernum, hydrangeas, azaleas (The species azaleas have a particularly nice open form), spireas, choysias. . . Underplant with hostas and interesting ground covers. With a little planning you can have something in bloom or displaying berries or colored foliage pretty much all year 'round. If you want to go with native plants consider Oregon grape (the berries are edible), flowering currant (ditto), mock orange, Nootka rose, salal, high bush cranberry, native rhodies, spirea densiflora, evergreen huckleberries.

bigorangevol! I like the handle! Thanks for the invite. I missed by the narrowest of margins the most recent swap meet ... right now, I have to admit I'm a wee bit confused as to which one is which. I'm referring to the one just held on the 7th. I just read a post when there is going to be a fall swap meet on or about the 20th of OCT. I'd sure like to get up there to the River one too, but it's iffy right now for me. But ... I'll be monitoring and hoping somethings break for me that I might give it a go. Actually (please don't mention this to my GA relatives and friends) I'm a VOL fan. Have been for ages. I have lived many different places over the years (the last 15 in Northern GA ... reasonably close to the TN border ... approx. 50 miles or so). I went to college on the West Coast ... we played TN over the a few decades usually on a back to back schedule or with a three year spread. Can remember Bill Battle as coach and others over the years. First game I saw was at The Coliseum in LA, then over at the Rose Bowl. Never missed a game at the Rose Bowl between the Vols and the Bruins ... great battles a number of times, but the Vols usually prevailed and sometimes by good margins. The Bruins won, but never dominated the Vols as the Vols dominated us IMHO. I'll never forget our (Bruins) opener when Cobb-Webb just ran us asunder. It was our opening game and most Bruin football players still have their minds on the beach and bikinis! :) I believe the Vols had played the week before in their opener and had struggled, but that day they sure didn't. You've had some great teams fairly consistently over the years. I always root for them ... ssssshhh, I mustn't say that too loud as the UGA crowd will get upset ... my son married into UGA family, sooooooo ... it does get interesting at times with my trying to be diplomatic. LOL! This upcoming season should be interesting for both teams. Again, thanks for the invite and sorry I sort of digress into another subject, albeit important, right? Take care and may be we'll meet up sometime at one of the swaps!

What I understood from the articles was that the Primrose Jasmine is evergreen with 1-3 inch long leaves and the blooms are fragrant while the Winter Jasmine is deciduous and blooms on bare branches. Winter Jasmine leaves are only 1 inch long and it is not fragrant. I didn't detect fragrance at all and the branches are not leafed out yet. Otherwise, they look identical! My neighbor mentioned that the branches are squared. Thank you so much for pointing me in the correct direction!