Over the years I've gotten a lot of nice perennials from fields and such. You just have to be able to recognize the foliage. Once I found an abandoned farm field full of irises. Because the tubers had become covered with weeds, they didn't bloom in the field, but bloomed nicely when I took them home. I've found other such plants by looking for for former home sites in the country. You can usually tell by the layout of the weeds/trees that something used to be there. These are sites that will later be plowed under for development, so I consider it a plant rescue as well as an addition to my garden.
When they were going to demo the (former) bank across the street from us, to build the Lexington Coop, I snuck over the evening before and dug up some of the lilies and other stuff in the parking lot strip garden and took them. Don't tell anyone. I slept better after the seven year the statute of limitations was up.
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