Hello CHARLIE, my name is DAVID .I too am a garden maintenance man here in 5b,near PETERBOROUGH ONT.
I grow many of them on my 50 acre grain farm.Spring time has me enjoying tulips, daffodils, hyacinths ,bleeding hearts and many iris.
I am a daylily breeder,have 30 registered,so you know which type is my favorite.
Also over 50 types of true lilies, grasses, garden phlox,peonies,plus a few shrub varieties.
I would love to visit your part of the garden world next spring, I travel to NEW MARKET every 2 weeks or so.