When Dale West took up gardening, friends would drop off carefully dug up perennials wrapped in soggy newspaper on his front porch. At first, the plants were total strangers to him, but soon their odd name, Hemerocallis, became familiar as more and more varieties found their way to his Woodstock, Vermont, home. Years later, when Dale moved to the steel-gray farmhouse of his partner, Terry John Woods, he packed up 10 truckloads of his favorite pass-along plant: daylilies (Hemerocallis is Greek for day beauty). He added the easygoing perennials to existing beds of bee balm, anise hyssop, yarrow, and mallow and watched them take off. The bold, bright daylilies appeared right at home with the other vivid bloomers, and their easy-to-divide tubers made it a snap to spread throughout the 40-acre property. At one point, Dale even toyed with the idea of starting a daylily nursery. Since then, however, he and Terry have decided to always give away their extra plants to new gardening friends. If daylilies have a legacy, it's shared.