Don't get advice on exotic plants from a general garden store. Their job is to help you kill them so you go back and purchase more garden products you don't really need. N. sanguinea comes in many many colors. Wild populations are often inter-crossed with other species such as macfarlanei, ramispina, etc.Some say their variation in coloration is due to these back crosses retaining colros even though they have crossed back into its true bloodline to stay as N. sanguinea. Variations in color

moccasin - those are some nice lights! i can see why you like them. I bet they're more than 20-30 $s each tho... I loved that the globes come in colors... I'd stay away from the red tho. OTOH that could be good for an emergency signal to a neighbor. I'm too poor to pay much for the lights - even if I find a SWern one i like it's sure to be more than 30.00 and I think I should limit it to that. I need 3 - plus a few (plus) inside need replaced based on they are UGLY. I found these 2 at lowe's. both plain but would do the job - cheaply. it'll probably be the first one unless I find something better for the price in the store. around 25.00 with clean lines. I'd have to see how my chubby little fingers fit for changing the bulb. it's better I don't have to mess with those little screws and chance dropping the globe since things seems to jump out of my hands. I remember changing bulbs in the screw on globe type yrs ago. max wattage is 100w this one is about 21.00. I like it, again clean, simple lines - this one has a frosted globe. has the little screws tho and max wattage is 60w.

what if i wanted to say that none of the appliances i ordered arrived on time, and none of the workers are available on the new day, and i can't have a kitchen in which none of the appliances are there.

Yeah with the comment about frost I knew where you were going ... my thinking was being "springy" it wouldn't freeze as deep or at all. Being pretty close to Lake Michigan and in the winter we get the perma cloud with the cold air coming across it. Thus plants wouldn't be getting much sun thus not needing much water in the winter if there was such a unicorn to begin with. This area never had any problem before this new drain field. Weird thing is further down hill the soil is drier. The problem I'm having is the lawn mower sinking in this wet area. In the 25 years I've been in my house I've trenched 2 4" pipes down to the lake for my gutters. Then the drain field I'm talking about. Later trenched electricity down to the lake and pressure pipe back towards the house for my lake pump. Then a major landscaping project, then a 4 season porch so I don't know if I can handle tearing up my lawn again. This grassy area is about 24' in diameter and what I might do is plant some shrubs here thus I won't have to mow it. Any suggestion on shrubs (under 5' tall) for this area? Wet, mostly sunny, clay?