| One year after we moved into our new
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| | Presented with row upon row of cultivated
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| ranch-style home, the Merion Bluegrass
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| | day lilies in every imaginable shape and
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| lawn was growing well and the basic
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| | color, I drooled over owning just a few
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| flower beds were mapped out. A new home
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| | of them for our garden. I parted with all
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| doesn't need repairs, but a myriad of
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| | the money I had, fifteen dollars, and
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| needs kept cropping up to soak up any
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| | went home with three starter clumps.
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| available money. A trip to the local
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| | Before leaving, I took a few pictures of
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| plant nursery put us in shock when we
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| | his fields and some individual blossoms
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| added up the cost of perennials, mulching
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| | he had self propagated. I later made a
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| and proper bricks for the borders. I
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| | set for him to keep. One low growing
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| would search the want ads for bargain
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| | beauty sported forty blooms on each stalk
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| lots of building materials, garden tools,
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| | (opening one per day) in tones of deep
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| mowers and fertilizer with much success.
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| | ruby red. Another met the dawn in diamond
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| When people move, they don't want to
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| | dusted five-inch-wide flowers in ivory
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| weigh down the moving van with old tools
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| | and shell pink, showing an apple green
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| and bags of fertilizer. They practically
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| | center. A third boasted four inch blooms
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| give them away.The one thing people would
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| | in a true lemon yellow.The following
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| never part with are their perennials.
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| | summer, I received a call from the
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| Plants and trees are quite visible to the
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| | farmer. He informed me that he had sold
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| new owners and they usually expect that
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| | his farm land to a developer and had
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| they go with the house. My whole winter
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| | already bought ten acres twenty miles
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| was spent browsing the catalogs for
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| | further west. He had removed all he
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| hosta, iris, roses, and especially day
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| | needed to seed the new day lily farm but
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| lilies. Available in mouth-watering
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| | was forced to leave hundreds of mature
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| shades, these new hybrid day lilies come
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| | plants. The bulldozers were slated to
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| in different heights and plant habit.
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| | start preparing the land for the new
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| Some are good for along a fence, other
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| | development the following week and if I
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| make good border plants, each clump
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| | would like, I could help myself to any
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| doubling in size every year. Unlike the
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| | number of plants for my garden. I almost
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| road side day lilies that grow to four
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| | dropped the phone in excitement. Here was
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| feet tall, bloom only briefly, and send
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| | presented to me the most desirable
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| out root runners to take over the rest of
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| | flowering perennials I could dream of for
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| the garden, the hybrids are garden
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| | our garden! Free!! I thanked him and
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| friendly. Unfortunately, a grouping of
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| | spent the next three days digging,
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| three roots cost about eight dollars,
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| | boxing, and transporting the day lilies.
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| sending the cost of the needed plants
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| | The next July Fourth we had a barbecue
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| into the hundreds of dollars.One day, in
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| | party in the back yard. Ringing the
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| a conversation with a local nursery
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| | gentle curves of the brick borders
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| owner, he revealed the source of some of
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| | bloomed forty varieties of hybrid day
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| his day lilies. The farmer lived in a
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| | lilies, glorifying our new garden and
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| nearby town and grew day lilies for a
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| | warming our hearts.Retired portrait
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| living. Some intense research turned up
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| | photographer now lives in a townhouse.
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| his address and I paid him a visit.
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