New Lily

Although it may not be the Grape Magic variety
that Toni was hoping for, I feel quite sure that
the flower in the first picture in this thread
is a daylily . . . the remarkable resemblance to those gorgeous
lily flowers that Droopy shared makes it clear
why this group of plants is often confused with lilies,

even though they are not actually lilies.

Daylilies are Hemerocallis - in the family Hemerocallidaceae.
"True lilies" are Lilium - in the family Liliaceae.
For me, one way to tell is by observing the plant structure,
Hemerocallis (Daylilies) have more of a "tuft" of foliage,
all of the leaves growing out of one central point on the ground,
while Lilies grow a taller stalk, with the foliage growing up the length of the stalk.

There is a good explantation here:
http://homepages.accnorwalk.com/daylily/about-daylilies.html

_________________

~*~ zuzu ~*~
I put a lot of myself into my garden.

Sorry I used the term lily when showing those pictures, the two I posted are daylilies. The difference between the two types of flowers aside from everything mentioned above (more technical than I can effectively handle) is the flower stem. A true lily has leaves on the stem of the flower, orientals alternate sides, asiatics circle the stem. Daylilies have no foilage on the actually flower stem just grass like foilage at the base of the plant.
Lilies are bulbs and can produce bulbets which will eventually make new plants. They also can be divided by digging up the bulb and taking pieces, I know people that have done divisions this way very successfully. I do not happen to be in that group. Daylilies have a crown with fat roots (how is that for a technical term). They resemble more closely dahlias in their root structure. Each fan has a crown and usually only one stem. One stem can have multiple blooms but they usually bloom one at a time for just about a day. That is where the name comes from I believe.
With cross breeding and hardiness, there are now more than 1000 different types of daylilies here in the US and more being produced each year. The "buzz" words I hear now are double blooming (early summer and then again in the fall), ever blooming (Stella's are known for that), doubles, ones with "eyes", etc. I have at least forty and probably closer to sixty varieties, most of them had names when they arrived on my doorstep but I am not good with keeping plants with their tags so I cannot tell you all the different ones I have. Ask for a color, size etc and I may be able to find what you want.
Daylilies ship easily and are very hardy so fall sounds like a good idea. diene