Someone helped themselves to bout 20 Daylily plants from our school garden this weekend! At least two were seedlings that can't be replaced. A couple of them they left a fan or two but did not plant it back well and by the time I found them today they are suffering from the 90 plus degree heat.
I am so sad this happened. For those that do not know me or know about our school garden, I teach with daylilies. Our school has a large garden around it with both named daylilies and student seedlings. We even have a small bed of Shirley Farmer seedlings that I obtained from her daughter after her passing. Many plants in the garden were obtained through my Daylily club and from generous hybridizers.
To make a long story short(er), our school is remodeling the front entry and the entire front bed has to be removed for the expanded entry. We already moved several plants we wanted to keep to the side of the school near the greenhouse. We have been selling others as we do not have enough room to keep them all. The thief not only took plants from the front but also some of the moved keepers. They even went into the seedling bed and took some! I am afraid to keep looking as I am sure there are some missing that I have not even noticed yet.
I am posting here because I know people here can sympathize with me as we love our daylilies. When I told my husband about it, he tried to show sympathy but also let me know I put a lot of volunteer time/effort into the school garden and the school district does not seem to appreciate it.
Thank you for letting me vent.
Feeling a little frustrated,
Lisa
