Spectacular!!
I am somewhere in-between heartbroken and angry for you, Thisisme!! But, I'm glad to see you haven't give up!
Went out today to see that the critters took out my second small bed of sunflowers! Decimated completely! They must be jumping down into it and the out again. I couldn't imagine my anger if done by a person's intentional hands. I only hope that your situation was an awful, yet innocent, mistake.
Thanks for the photos! I'm going to take some time to really scroll through them. And thanks for the link and advise on the Collard trees!