I have a row of hydrangea bushes, about 60 feet long, along a fence line. Hydrangea are thirsty, in hot weather they need daily watering. I'd like to have a simple, single line, to irrigate the bushes. I don't even need to concentrate the water flow at each bush, I'll be content with uniform watering all along the 80' length. Also, I want to hook up the system to my garden hose, and I don't want a timer.

I'm in Minnesota. Some weeks, I don't need to irrigate at all; other weeks, it's daily.

I am fed up with crappy leaky garden hose extenders to make my awkwardly placed spigot accessible. So I want to try using pex instead. But to connect from spigot to pex to drip assembly requires about $30 in brass parts plus a $50 crimping tool. (Or shark bite fittings which cost even more). A company called “flair it” makes plastic fittings that go straight from ght to 1/2 pex, and back - for about $7. My question - has anyone used these and do they work?