Ninebark

So many FIRSTS this spring!
For three years I watched  and waited for two Ninebark shrubs to get big enough to bloom. And now here is the largest one laden with small creamy coloured balls of flowers.
Ninebark (no idea why it has that name) is a native variety recommended for all gardens to attract & feed insects. There are hybrid varieties of the snowball type flowers that catalogs and plant centers sell; but the flowers are useless for feeding insects, especially bees and butterflies.
I think this plant would make a fine flowering hedge.
The extra photo is also a FIRST for today: the first common daylily to bloom near my neighbour's front door.A sure sign of summer and the solstice.  I have returned there to dog feeding for a few days .