- Your backyard vegetable garden has disappeared. Dozens of daylilies have replaced the veggies. The farmer's market is where you find your vegetables nowadays.
- You get rid of other perennials to make room for daylilies.
- Sections of your lawn have been removed to make larger daylily beds. Easier to mow, right?
- You attend a daylily sale, promising yourself that you'll buy no more than eight new cultivars. But when you get home, somehow an additional 20 daylilies have hitched a ride.
- Online daylily purchasing is fun, easy, and you partake often.
- You have started growing seedlings in your basement.
- You routinely trade daylily divisions with other enthusiasts.
- On rainy days you create and work with daylily spreadsheets on Google.
- You are compelled to make plant tags and labels for your daylilies.
- You lie in bed at night orchestrating transplant maneuvers in your mind for the following day.
- Your partner tells you they are sick of hearing about daylilies.
- Proliferations grow on your window sills.
- No one has to wonder what to get you for your birthday. Duh!
- You spend hours online researching what daylilies *need* to go on your wish list.
- You own at least one or two daylily attire items.
- You have friends and neighbors who also have daylily gardens. Prior to meeting you they had no idea that daylilies even existed.
- You remove trees and bushes on your property to get rid of the excess shade.
- You are forced to hold a daylily sale because you must make room for more new daylilies.
- You plan vacation road trips around garden visits to daylily hybridizers.
- And finally, you must have the latest daylily buzz so you become a member of both your local daylily club and the American Daylily Society.
How many of these indicators should you admit to before you are considered a daylily addict? Good question! I'll venture to say that at least five true statements indicate you've started walking down that path ;) And myself? I'm definitely in trouble for the simple reason that I am familiar with each and every indicator, but I'm not admitting that they're all mine...
Daylily pictured: 'Something Angelic'