English plurals. English nouns are inflected for grammatical number, meaning that if they are of the countable type, they generally have different forms for singular and plural.
Growing Daylilies. We'd describe the Daylily as the backbone of the perennial garden except that would do a disservice to this most durable plant -- backbones, as every gardener knows, are fragile things, whereas Daylilies are close to indestructible.
These plants are typified by a white fleshy bulb that resembles an artichoke. There are roughly 110 different wild lilies species and more than 9,000 named lily hybrids. To bring some order into all these different types of lilies, hybridizers group garden hybrids into divisions. Asiatic hybrids, which are usually mistaken for tiger lilies, are the easiest to grow and bloom of all lilies.