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Daylilies have gotten something of a bum rap over the years. The familiar species type – the scrawny “ditch lily” with orange flowers that blooms faithfully each July in fields and abandoned front yards – is often dismissed as a near-weed, the Rodney Dangerfield of garden plants.  But actually, the daylily family – hemerocallis spp., from the […]