Michigan Gardening: Looking for cheap way to mass plant an east facing slope z=5, 1 by serenaski

serenaski wrote:
This isn't the best picture but it is taken from the south-end of my lot looking across the back of my home. The slope is quite steep when you consider the mowing aspect; hanging the mower over from the top and trying to push it up from the bottom doesn't quite reach in the middle and it gets harder to do each passing year. Originally I had wanted to mass plant the whole side of the hill with 'lily of the valley', but then I got laid-off and have ended up back in school instead of back to work. So anyway now I have the time, but not the finances. If anyone has any suggestions I would be most appreciative; and if anyone has areas that have become overrun with flowing shade plants I would be happy to do the work of relieving your excess. This will be my seventh summer here and I have not accomplished even a portion of what I had planned when I moved here. My 2011 resolution is to get out there as soon as the snow melts and start digging:)