There is blood on the lillies...

Here they are in their second year in the garden - the endearing "blood-spattered lillies."

I finally got my butt in the garden for a few hours to do a bit of planting, watering, feeding and weeding. I'm waiting for the day lillies to take off. For some reason the yellow ones flower a few weeks before all the other ones. I'm hoping the feeding will bring them on a bit faster. There is still a fair bit of work and I'm still losing the war with the asian lily beetles.... as you'll see in other photos.