What's this and can I eat it?

After I cleared a bit of thicket out a couple of years ago, these 'appeared' although they were never planted there:





Are they a variety suitable for eating, as this is one of the few plants that the rabbits don't touch?

 

Hi

Its a daylily or Hemerocallis , looks good , I dont think I would eat it though

Spruce

 

But then, again......

Greenish Thumb: Growing, buying, cooking daylily

 

Pick them before they open no way!!!!:OUCH:


No we must stamp this out


Spruce

 

You might want to reconsider.....

Hemerocallis gall midge / RHS Gardening

 

It's some form of Lily Scrungee.
Never heard you can eat any of it.
Some of them can be real weeds - hard to get rid of.
But if you like them - free plants.

 

That's my favourite price! (apart from being paid to take good stuff away)

They're getting overshadowed by some willows that I've been intending to re-pollard for a couiple of years now and really must get around to doing this winter, and the clump is getting bigger every year (I've seen pics of it growing wild and taking over roadside verges) so I'm probably going to try moving some of it.

Is it most likely that it arrived as a seed from a plant in a nearby garden?

 

They have a big, fleshy root system. You'll have a job on.