Great tip, Ann.I got a funny look when I told the grass cutters in FL to just blow the oak leaves from the patio into the daylily bed and I spread them around. The grass cutters are simply that -- they aren't allowed to do anything else. We don't bag anything for the yard waste and all of our branches and limbs get stacked by our mulch pile and DH chips them up when we get a small pile. The only yard waste that we put out is weeds. We have a couple of large pine trees and I rake up piles for DH to run over with the lawn mower with the grass catcher, and then we spread them in the beds.