I never seem to be able to do much with my back yard. It’s shady, being adjacent to a vacant, wooded lot that thankfully cannot be developed, and underneath the thin topsoil is marine clay interspersed with stones the size of your fist. So nothing grows that well, and I have these occasional visitors…

I don’t feed them; they help themselves! Last year I had a lot of catnip growing, both in the ground and in a big gray-green pot, but my visitors cleaned the whole thing out overnight! Fortunately the few clumps of daffodils didn’t appeal to them, and I won’t plant catnip until next month.