Day-lilies, that is. You know, Mom never cared for them, so I never really considered them as an option for my yard. But I had some bare spots that needed filling with something, and I was drawing a blank. Then some the previous owners had planted bloomed, and I thought they looked pretty nice. So I turned to my favorite resource, GreyTalk, and asked the members there.
Now, you may think it's crazy to take a gardening question to a message board dedicated totalking about retired greyhounds as pets, but greyhound adoption cuts across all socio-economic lines, from what I can see. We have folks on that board who are rocket scientists, some who are botanists, and some who wait tables and tend bar. And LOTS of them are gardeners. So I started a post over there about day-lilies, and the majority of the answers were positive. I especially liked the aspect of them being almost impossible to kill, so I figured I'd try a few. That was ... Memorial Day weekend, I think, and Lowes had marked theirs down to half-price, so I brought home a half-dozen or so to play with.
I'll have to add photos later, because apparently they're on my home PC, not my laptop, but I started with a small rectangular section on one side of the driveway. I created a border of day-lilies along the property line side of the section. When they bloomed, I really liked how they looked, so when I was at Lowes a couple weeks later, I bought a few more and expanded that section slightly.
As far as I knew, I was done with planting then, until next fall at the earliest.
Yeah, right.
