My white turk's cap lilies are going to make a fine show this year (Lilium martagon album).
Years ago a friend was looking at the plants where a house had been demolished to make way for an apartment building. He found a few dead lily stalks and dug the bulbs. From one that he gave me I must have raised hundreds, giving some away from time to time and I still have about one hundred in a group in the garden. Very hardy here in Calgary, 3-4-foot stalks with many flowers, perhaps my favorite plant.

Flowering already is the cutleaf red peony, a division from a friend. A variety of tenuifolia rubra plena, with large fully double flowers, he got in Ontario (cost him $50 for the bulb). It also is trouble-free in Calgary. It grows easily from divisions.

At my age, plants have to be easy to care for.