To keep the moderators from getting in an uproar, let me see if I can connect 'alfalfa for daylilies with quilting'.
My grandmothers, my aunts and my mother were all quilters back in the day when quilts were a necessity, but still beautiful. They were all gardeners, too. They gardened for food and also for the beauty of the blooms.
I played beneath their quilting frames when I was young enough to walk under them, and from that vantage point -- there beneath the quilts -- I learned some of the best gardening tips. They talked of flowers and they talked of farms and they talked about the most recent salves or cough syrups or magical cures they made from those plants they grew.
One would ask of my grandmother, "Now, Ell, just what was it you used to help them roses to bloom?"
And my Gramma Ell would answer every time, "It was alfalfa."
I learned a lot sitting beneath the quilting frames when I was a little girl, not only how to quilt but also how to garden. I inherited many of those old quilts just as I inherited their ways of gardening at a time when you grew your own food, made most of your own medicines and kept your families warm with hand made quilts.
Luckily I kept that alfalfa tip in my mind when I started planting my own daylilies and those I brought with me from my grandmother's gardens are still quite happy here.
I love seeing your wife's quilts, Paul, they are so beautiful. Most of them remind me of gardens which leads us back to alfalfa and now we're right back on topic and the mods can't complain!!
Sharon 
