The way to tell real tiger lillies from the ordinary orange day lilly ( both grow wild ) is the tigers have spots and many blooms on one stalk. The wild orange day lilies do not.

I think I read that both lilies spread both by roots and by seeds. It takes years for the seed to grow and produce a bloom but it does happen.

I do a little daylily hybridizing and it takes about 2 years for regular daylilies from seed unless your in a warm place like Florida or Southern Cal.

The plant you bought is a bit early in its bloom - but then that tends to happen if you buy them already potted and blooming. Once the main stem comes up it will hit a certain height and produce a certain number of flowers running along that stem, and then that's it for the season. You would then leave the stem and its foliage in place the rest of the summer as this is what will "feed" the bulb.

Once the stem turns brown and can almost be snapped off manually with the lightest of tugs, you can remove that dead stem and discard. But you want to try to hold onto that stem and foliage as long as possible as this will help increase the size of the bulb.

Bulbils formed in the leaf axes of the lily

Close-up of bulbil

The spring after that, they'll each have a few more leaves and even a tiny stem (which is what my little babies are doing at the moment).

This was the mama plant:

At what time of year do the lilies put out their new shoots ?

So that I don't keep inadvertently mowing down the new shoots.

THANK YOU !!!