Steve; I'm so sorry! What a loss! Birds are so beautiful! What types of birds DO you have where you live? Are you near woods or a park where you can birdwatch some? I noticed you're in MD---One of my DSsIL grew up on a dairy farm in Bel Aire years ago. He took us to Havre De Grace a couple of times to see the lighthouse... MD always had some mighty pretty country! I don't know what Annapolis is like these days, but a dealer friend of ours used to go up a lot for used Mercedes from Benson's----what a lovely town it was!!! (20 yrs. ago!) Sometimes my kids, my future SIL, the whole pack of us would be caravaning back to Va. in five or six of those wonderful old Benz diesels! Those were the days! I guess the only thing that really stands out in my mind about folks from MD is, most of them are pretty daggone smart ---and they LOVE to ride the left lane no matter WHAT state they're in! GUFFAW!

Debra, a lot of her daylilies, even though they are bred for the northern climes, love the hot south. She writes about some of them being grown in Alabama. In fact, MIBR may be one of .the ones that likes the South. It is a beautiful daylily, and it is another Sun tough one. It is as pretty late as it is early. I have really liked the ones of Karol's I have gotten. kay

Oh yeah I know how that is Angie! I'm not all that open about birds but my closest friends know I'm a bird watcher and seem to respect it. I'm still into a lot of other things for my age but I was born a nature lover and look to maybe have my 1st career being landscaping. And yes, they are awful birds. I've told others that I trap but I try to get them to understand that I'm only doing it for good reasons...:)...the 1st time I had euthanize a HOSP it was tough...real tough...but now, after seing what they do to our good, native, beautiful insect eating birds, I feel no contempt eliminating them. Whatever it takes to restore the balance and keep our good birds alive... By the way...read my post in the other thread...my neighbor owns a Martin house that I remove HOSP nests from.

That is wonderful Josh!!!! I think it's also in part of our locations. They are very sun sensitive. That would explain why people in the UK and Canada have buds/blooms way before we do. I also know that if you leave a window cracked at night they'll set buds regardless of light.