How does my garden grow? With gifts! Part 1

What's that? You say you'd like to know what I've got growing this year? Green gifts from many generous gardeners. So many I'll have to break the story up and tell it in parts. Here's the beginning.

At the end of the gardening season last fall our friend and neighbor divided some of her perennials and asked, did I want some? Do monkeys like free bananas? Yes! She told me they were a mix of black-eyed Susans and daylilies and left them out for me in plastic shopping bags on her porch. I drove up after dinner and grabbed the two bags. The plants didn't look like much (I wish I had thought to take a picture then), rather droopy and tawny brownish. But I quickly dug up some dirt near my house and with freezing hands plunked the lot into the ground and tried to push dirt back around them. I did a real hack job due to the rapidly decreasing temperature and daylight and the fact that I had kids to get ready for bed. Not to mention the fact that I was totally winging it and didn't really have a clue what I was doing. But six months later, with a judicious application of mulch a month ago, we have what I think are black-eyed Susans to the left, and daylilies to the right. Maybe? Whatever plants they are, all of them look, to my untrained eye, quite lively and full of promise. (The little green upstart at the bottom left is a volunteer of some sort. If you have an idea what, please share! Thank you!)