The other night I was standing around my yard looking at this:
 



Specifically, all those daylilies.  They're ditch lilies.  When we bought our house there was a pile of bricks against a precarious picket fence with daylilies growing out of it.  That was written correctly, the daylilies were growing out of the brick pile.  We used the bricks to edge all the flower beds and threw away a garbage can full of daylilies.  There were more, and I planted some of them under this hideous tree.  I'm sick of 'em.

The tree stays.

My thought was to go back to one of our local nurseries and snap up a bunch of shade perennials at 50% off.  I'm going to cut back swathes of the daylies and spray them with Round Up.  Digging them up would be a ton of fun (snort!) but I'm sure I'd never get them all so will opt for the spray.  This time.

Then I happened to turn around and see this:



Oh yeah, I have three overly full shade perennial gardens.  My little penny pinching brain finally kicked in, I've got LOTS of plant material I can use for no money.  Yahoo! 

The plan was to cut and spray the daylilies this afternoon.  However, it was 90 degrees and super windy so I read a smarmy novel instead, with a promise to myself to do it this evening.  This evening it happens to be raining.  And I'm blogging.

Tomorrow I will cut and spray the daylilies.  In a couple of weeks I'll start splitting and planting the hostas, iris, what have you in my newly uncovered ground.  It'll be pretty ugly this year, but wait til next year...

Number of days since we've had a decent rain in Fargo:  15