Thats reassuring to hear Dan. If I got even close to 95% survival I would be tickled pink. I want to plant more next year but I dont want to piddle around with replanting half this area again instead of making forward progress. I do plan on nursing these along quite a bit to help insure max survival. Too bad there is no way to water that many if a drought sets in.
I have seen some plantings that had pretty poor survival, but they always looked like the guy just planted them and walked away, never touching the area again.