Betty, good for you for working so hard to free the captive bird. I won't use that netting for the same reason. It can ensnare birds, chipmunks, squirrels, toads, and even snakes. I sure do agree with Al about Agastache! I call that plant my "beesicle" but it is very much a finchsicle, too.

Nice! I'm looking forward to spring as well. Here's my back yard. This is last fall after I finished planting the back of the yard. It's on the edge of the property looking toward the house. In the foreground are two nannyberry shrubs (a viburnum related to cranberry) and then an area where I've planted a prairie garden and covered it with compost. You can see where I've left space for a path to walk through, and I plan to put a bench there. Back towards the house there is where the garden starts, and I had started planting there last year. It's nice in the summer sitting out on the patio, where I can watch the bird feeders and enjoy being surrounded by native plants. The area where I'm standing, with the nannyberry and the small post right beyond it, used to be completely infested with buckthorn and many invasive weeds. It took me 2 years to clear it all out. Now that the area is opened up a bit, I'm hoping that I'll have bluebirds nesting again (saw many here during fall migration.) I left this post standing as a spot for the bluebirds to perch, and to hang a nice sign. The post used to be completely obscured by buckthorn.

So glad you like everything !!! I really didn't know what to buy you, but I figured you can't go wrong with Desserts. I have a Glass bottom Springfoarm pan, and they are great, because you can cut right on them. No I didn't make the box....I bought it. I'm just not that talented!!!LOL So glad it got to your house safetly too. Enjoy !!! Diana55

Wow--a good jazz musician ought to be able to take that and run with it!