What is there not to love about daylilies? I find them impossible to kill, which means I automatically like them. I have five big ones in my front garden bed (yes, they're crowded and yes, I need to divide them and move them).

I love this time of year when they start to bloom. Each bloom seems to last about a day (thus the name, I suppose). I inherited them from a neighbor who was separating them on Easter weekend in 2006 and yelled over to my house asking if I wanted them. Of course I said yes, I love garden castoffs. I'm like a cat lady in my inability to say no to a stray plant. I'm not sure which variety I have. Take a look at my picture below and tell me if you think you know what it is. Oh, and send us pics of your daylilies, we'd love to see them. Email me at sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com (Legal stuff our lawyers make us print: Submissions may be published in any form, blah blah blah).

Photo here. Enjoy. (haha)

On Saturday Aug. 2, two weeks from today, we'll publish a story about daylilies by garden writer Jean Parietti. She interviewed Bill Havens, a Tacoma resident and master gardener who cross-pollinates his own day lilies. He plants somewhere around 300 seedlings and year and decides from that batch which ones to keep. Watch for the story in two weeks here.