When the spouse discovered she'd married a herb/veggie garderner, she thought if she bought hybred day lily I'd take care of them. She followed my lead: in the winter order off for the seed catalogs. When the day lily catalog, she gasps mightly. They wanted $20 to $40 a bulb.

Petunia looked at the catalogs and moaned. At those prices she'd never get a yard full of day lilies.

Imagine her delight when a local day lily farmer decided someone else should buy the farm. The farmer put an ad in the local paper "Day lilies: $2 a clump." A day lily reproduces by dividing its roots into clumps. Petunia could get five to ten day lily bulbs for $2. Off we went in to the outskirts of nearby town in upstate rural South Carolina with a pick up truck and a pair of shovels for TWO trips. She picked out the expensive groups of day lilies and started digging.

Sixteen years later, we could start a day lily farm if we had only kept track of the NAMES of these different types.

Guesses are welcome.

I may post MORE of these dam flowers I didn't want in the first place. I wanted heirloom tomatoes, famous for not surviving or getting eaten by birds and bugs, dying the first time I forget to water them and maybe Thai basil and other stuff I can't buy at the supermarket. In the meantime, she refuses to care for HER plants and ignores mine. I ought to get rid of these things.