Noticing a flower scape or two on a couple of my earlier day lilies.

Don't buy day lilies with yellowing leaves. Could be a virus or bacterial infection that can slowly spread to other day lilies. I haven't had big problems with day lily deseases and fungus, but where planted en masse, such as at breeders, they are fairly easy to pick up and transport to your own garden.

After 10 weeks of significant inactivity due to the broken knee (preceded by not much gardening or physical activity for months before that,) I spent just a couple of hours Sunday non-strenously forking a small pile of mulch into a wheel barrow and then distributing it into a couple of beds. Yesterday and today I have had a hard time standing straight or walking. Didn't injure anything, just really, really sore muscles from being seriously inactive and out of shape. Rather shocking to recognize how much so.

Been doing more research on the azalea petal blight, and also noticing many, many azaleas infected throughout my little town. From what I have read, soil drenches and replacing mulch, the most commonly recommended practices are not actually very effective. Seems spraying the flower buds and flowers weekly with powerful fungicides,from the time they form until petal drop can "control" the fungus, but who has time for that,nevermind concerns about using powerful chemicals.

I'm stymied.