anyone recognise this?

[doc]

Hi all
i was recently given this plant. In the background on the right is a crocosmia but what is the main plant in the front? It doesnt look like an iris...but I stand to be corrected...

[Izi]

Looks like an Iris to me. The bearded ones that flower in april and may. If they are then they want to be planted with the top of the rhizome showing a bit above the soil then they'll flower better.
You'll probably get flowers next year.
Izi.

[rustylady]

Certainly looks like an Iris to me

[rana]

If it is not an Iris it could be Hemerocallis (Day Lilly) but that would normally be in flower now.

[Two_Sheds]

Looks like a day lily (mine aren't flowering yet, cos I moved them recently).

[doc]

I have a day lily which is flowering just now. I also have a bearded iris (not flowering) but the leaves lof this plant i dont know look a bit different to me...but then i am only a novice. what i could do is take a pic of each of these and put them up..if that's ok?

[lizzylemon]

I have a day lily which is flowering just now. I also have a bearded iris (not flowering) but the leaves lof this plant i dont know look a bit different to me...but then i am only a novice. what i could do is take a pic of each of these and put them up..if that's ok?

Go for it doc. It looks like my Irises too I have to agree. Mine haven't flowered for 2 years now. Think I need to take some soil away....

[doc]

Sorry..got a bit busy...
3 pics here..one showing the flowering day lillies; another showing the bearded iris with the rhizome above ground and the third pic showing crocosmia in the background and the plant i dont know in the front. i've looked again and i guess it could be a day lily..

[Herbie]

Could it be a gladdy? Give one a tug and see if it has a bulb.

[sarraceniac]

Could it be a gladdy? Give one a tug and see if it has a bulb.

I'm no expert but my gladdies are pretty reliable for 100% flower per plant rate every year and are just blooming now. I'd have thought a hemerocallis or an iris, which, if mine are anything to go by, don't flower every year. I'd do what I usually do, wait, even for a year, to see the flower.

[vicky]

My money's on an iris

[Herbie]

The reason I mentioned gladdy was because last year I had some mini ones that were rubbish and only got loads of leaves which didn't do nothing, still shared them with mum and sister and they got the same