I was able to make a small wreath with my Silver Mound Artemisia and the plants seems to be coming back even though I cut them pretty severely in order to get enough for a wreath. If I want to try a different, more productive kind next year (for bigger wreaths, and lots of wreaths), what is generally considered to be the best variety to use? Silver Queen? Silver King? Powis Castle? And where can I find those varieties? I've never seen them at any of my local nurseries.

OK, I'll do as you say. No more water. It's supposed to rain soon, been going to do that for weeks now and then revised weather. Anyway, I'll clean up the mulch and give it back to the roses. Maybe I'll gently poke and see how deep the rhizomes are, I know I meant to just barely cover them, didn't want them showing above the surface. I can scrape some of the soil away if there is too much because I know I pointed them downhill toward the street. They are on the beginning of the slope of the terrace a little more level than down further where I'm putting in daylilies. I doubt they've been in long enough to do serious damage unless I planted them too deep. And they aren't going to bloom this year I don't think. I did consider that the first rain could wash some soil off the tops of them anyway since it's all new fill for new steps there and washes, will have to wait and see about that. I've got to ask about the daylilies, too, but will use that forum. Thanks again.

Build an obnoxious shield on the edge of your side that borders his, so when his sprinkler tries to squirt your bush, it repels the water back onto his side. I'm trying to think of a material you could use that won't look hideous, but I am drawing a blank. Perhaps a shower tiling board that is screwed\wire-tied into T-posts to hold it firm and anchored to the ground. I hope that wouldn't be an expensive endevour, but it might be what you need to do if so much as to get the neighbor to come to his senses or else he gets to look at your great wall for ever more.

If the plant is healthy, you can prune it back to just above ground level if you like. How esthetically pleasing it looks when it starts to bounce back depends in large part on your pruning skills, but eliminating trifurcations as they appear will go a long way toward keeping the plant tidy and less congested than is their natural growth habit. Al