A few years after we bought the house we currently live in we dug flower beds.  And so it was that I found myself one hot July evening planting 104 day lilies that my friend Bob had given me. He bred the day lilies himself and although I thought them all beautiful, they did not meet his standards.  So I was the fortunate recipient of his lovely “mistakes”.  It was hot dirty work in ground that was not the best; full of rocks and clay.  But I was determined to get all of the flowers Bob had given me planted over the course of the next two days. Continue reading →