Wonderful! It's terrific that you're providing such nice resources for wildlife. I love it. I'm super envious too, as I love bees and hornets/wasps. In my last garden, I had a slow-drip water water feature that always had bees drinking from it and I loved it. In my current place (in Scottsdale not too far from the old one) I do get quite a few bees, but they only visit the flowers and not the several birdbaths I keep filled. Grrrr. I'm envious. Oh way, I already said that. Well, it's true! Great post and pic, thanks for sharing it!

Thanks everyone for telling me I needn't be worried about breaking my nails. And, kateskouros, my nails are pretty darn short, but when my hand slips on something, they tend to break easily down to the quick, which is painful. But, like I said, I am just extremely clumsy and tend to grab at things quickly, resulting in broken nails. I think it is the thought of grabbing something from underneath, rather than through the top of a handle that has me thinking I'll be always breaking them. What I should do is go to a kitchen showroom and try them out, maybe slathering my hands in hand lotion first :)

Most of my kitchen has knobs, but I wanted something different on my trash can and I had the cabinet installer drill three inch holes that would hold a regular bar handle. I wanted to change it to a bin handle, but I soon learned that they come in different sizes and some that were three inches had to have the larger hole to countersink. I found these cheapies on ebay and it looks as good as the $17.00 pewter one. So my advice is use something where the hole size is pretty standard. All the kitchen cabinets I've ever had have been three inch, so I felt safe going with that. Here is a link that might be useful: 3 inch bin knob

In my experience, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I'm guessing it has to do with what stage and age the leaf is at when it cups. If a young soft leaf cups and stays cupped until it hardens up, then I'm gonna bet it will stay cupped. If it's a mature hard leaf and cups it probably will un-cup when the stress is removed. But I'm also going to guess if it's stressed for a long time, even a mature leaf may stay cupped. I don't tend to believe it's the kind of stress that determines if it stays or not, since several different kinds of stress can cause cupping. And last, if it's from a thrips,mite or aphid that fed when the leaf was very tiny and just sprouting, then it will always be cupped or wrinkled, depending on what kind of damage was done. I think sometimes the damage is often blamed on environmental stress because often these insects are gone by the time the leaf is fully grown out.