First day lilies were discovered in my very first house in 1991. I felt so lucky to discover the huge clump of orange ditch lilies huddled in a corner of the yard. The following spring I divided them and ran a line the whole length of backyard fence. In the 8 years we lived there and raised our two babies I transformed that yard on a meager budget. Since then we have new house and I have a small collection including David Kirchhoff, pardon me, Chicago Apache, Mabel Nolen, Lavender Stardust, Big Kiss, an unnamed yellow and an unnamed red from friends. And I'm confident those orange ditch lilies are still going strong at our old house.
