When I first began gardening some 40 years ago, my energies went into annuals that spawned great expectations of glorious blooms to come. Unfortunately, despite my initial eagerness, I'd end up killing most of them through naïve optimism. Somehow, I thought they would water and feed themselves!

Of course they do not, so as I learned from my mistakes I looked for ways to get the best long-term gain from both my financial and labor investment. My grandfather, who spent his life working in his yard, was hounded for information. I stopped to pick the brains of random strangers with beautiful yards, and read every gardening book I could get my hands on. (Personal favorites were “Tasha Tudor's Garden” and “Crockett's Victory Garden.)

The discovery of perennials

What I discovered was that real gardeners in your own area are the best source of practical information on what will and will not work, and all that research into their personal experiences lead me to a lifetime love affair with perennials, one of which is the daylily.

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