Thanks for all of your input on the mystery plant. I am going with Jenn Bo. It must be some flavor of Day Lily.
More shots of the flowers opening nicely:
Extreme close up! I love digital cameras.
The most distressing thing about this plant is this:
The bulbs at the top of the stem get too heavy and the stem falls over dead with perfectly lovely flowers still on it. Tragic.
I need to divide this sucker, along with my plethora of Canna Lilies. I knew they were taking over. Note the rose bush engulfed by cannas:
And the sugar plum tree about to be steam-rollered by a line of marching cannas:
See the tiny patch of them at the left hand side of the picture? That was all I could manage to dig up last winter in my feeble attempt to divide and conquer. The roots are giant bulbs that form a giant bulb conglomerate able to withstand all invaders.This year I will get out the butcher knife and be ruthless.
It is for their own good.
