Officials described last week's landslip as a "dramatic movement" that has seen waterlogged soil come to rest against properties and over around 200m of road.
Not only do their root systems help stabilize soil and inhibit weeds, but they also offer movement, texture and year-round interest even when the blooms have long disappeared.
The international wave of alleged hacker arrests associated with the digital vigilante movement Anonymous continued Tuesday, and this time on American soil.