Yes, It is hardy in zone 7. I would love to trade you for hyssop seeds. New to this so don't know how to message privately with addresses......... I guess email me at spkennels@hotmail.com Thanks!

[QUOTE] "We have washboard, wash-outs, mud holes & need to re-distribute excess gravel." willow wisp, As a former maintainer of a large, sloped gravel driveway with tons of run off issues, surface grading will not solve the first three problems you mention. The ONLY solution is to dig the pothole out. Otherwise you will continue to have washout problems at the same spot. For many years I used a York rake on a variety of tractors including CUTs and kept having to redistribute the gravel over and over, but then I read a post on TBN that described how potholes have to be dug out and how the road needs a slight crown for drainage. And it worked. What works best to dig out the potholes, is a boxblade with the scarifiers turned down. Once the potholes have been removed, almost any method of redistributing the gravel will work (rake, boxblade with the scarifiers turned up, DR grader, etc). Unfortunately--or fortunately--I learned this after many years of a lot of effort . . . and then I paved the driveway. Cheers JDFANATIC

Should be fine. Polish Spirit is a hard prune type III. Many cut theirs down to the ground every year on purpose.

Just curious: I thought the repair prone Elux ovens were the 2009 versions, and improvements have solved the problem? The reports of problems here on the forum have definitely fallen to nil since then. KitchenAid ovens have had such variable and negative reviews here, and additionally, such problems with non-responsive customer service, that I never even considered them. TGC, I found Consumer Reports to be sorely lacking in broad coverage of brands, certainly of a variety of models, and in judging the appliances in areas which I found important...like over time. A day of testing doesn't show it all. Also, their repair history type of reports are misleading, since they only cover a few types of problems. For instance, I did a survey for them in which it made our Maytag fridge look like a star, because it didn't allow for information about how many times we had to replace parts to the drawers, how much we spent in shipping costs for parts, or the evaporator motor we replaced ourselves when the original went out just after the warranty period. They don't take into account necessary parts and repairs that don't require a manufacturer's service tech. Anyway, you're doing things the right way...Consult CR, but also look to resources like this forum and AJ Madison reviews where you get reports from real life experience, and from people who use their appliances in all different ways.