More about flowers

Wild Orange Day-lilies, purple Lupines, Clematis, Wisteria all these and more I met for the first time when I got to the US but really got to know them when I actively took over the garden.

The first two are special to me. 

The Wild Orange Day-lilies were my favorites from the first day I saw them growing at the side of the road, but there were none on the grounds of the motel. I read that they can be easily transplanted from other gardens and that what I did.  One of the ladies in our stuff brought me one morning a box full of roots and I planted them along the ditch that runs all along our front border, separating the motel from the road. I was not sure how the young plants were going to take, but with each year they become bigger and bigger. This year marks our eighth season here and the sixth year from the time I planted them.  As I mow the yard I make sure to inspect them and marvel at the delicate flowers. Each one blooms for one day and is gone until next year.

I think there is some learning here.  Each time I zoom by them caressing them with proud maternal look I think about patience and persistence and about living it for all it worth when all you have is one day to live.