This will be my third summer growing daylilies in the flowerbeds around my house. In daylily terms, three years is an average amount of time to progress from seeds to seedlings, then blossoming, pollinating, and setting seed pods. So it seems like just the right time to begin recording a garden diary, to reflect back on a full cycle of growth, and to gather my thoughts about what lies ahead, at the very same moment that I begin to see my own first hybridized seedlings appear. There is a deep gladness in arriving at this destination and finding that it is yet one next step among many in a journey that opens up into an entire life's future - a future filled with the promise of being swept up in marvel at the beauty of a flower that lives only one day. So many unremarkable steps, caught up over time, leading to such a very magical place.
