Georgia Gardening: New to Georgia, 1 by dzirbel

dzirbel wrote:
Hi all - We just moved into our new home in Gainesville and I am in need of some sort of shrub, not too tall growing that will hide an ugly drainage sort of ditch in our back yard. The developer put in a bunch of rock to create a drainage area as all the land slopes down. My backyard also slopes down towards that and consequesntly my grass back there is quite wet.

I am looking for something to grow back there that will cover up that ditch, but has to be able to grow in wet soil.

Attached is a photo of that area, but this was during a very heavy rainfall. As you can see the ditch needs so work because the water flows into our yard too much. There are woods on the other side so I don't need to hide those, just the rocks.