The Daylilies Around the Wellhead

A true, but preposterous, tale:

A neighbor family kept a pet Armadillo in a shed behind their house. One day it escaped, which set their kids aflutter. They knocked on the neighborhood's doors and looked high and low for the slipped-off critter.

I hadn't seen the beasty, but he'd destroyed the Japanese Iris surrounding my wellhead--evidently the rootstock was acceptable food. But he'd then left the yard, and was nowhere to be found.

The next day another neighbor reported that the pet was asleep in his gas-fired grill. 'Twas a bit of a shock....

I tried to recover the Iris bed with the scraps he'd left, but it didn't work out. So I ripped everything up and planted these Daylilies.