New Lily - Page 2

Diene, how sweet of you. I can't find the label from the Grape Magic package but if I am remembering correctly the lily I was expecting looked a lot like your Night Beacon. It would be fun to work out a trade this fall. Stew Face 2

Droopy, thanks for the links. The package was labeled as Daylilies.
Mine is more peach colored than the Elodie and doesn't have the black dots near the center. The best I can tell, the Lily Aphrodite from Thompson-Morgan looks closest to mine but the pedals on mine had ruffled edges. I tried emailing the grower, even gave them the link to this topic so they could see the picture but I never heard back from them.

Thanks for the help trying to ID this one. I hadn't even thought about them being doubles. I was just wondering about those seed looking things stuck to the edges of some of the pedals. It will be interesting to see if they are still there this year.

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