dellac said:Dianne. You found our little Lilium asylum - for incurable liliophiles!
NOIDs! NOID was a new word to me - I never heard it before I joined here. Apparently it means No IDea. I wish I could say I know the varieties you posted. I grow the middle one, but it never came labelled, so I've never known. The first two are defintely LAs and the last one I'm not so certain, but could be too.
The tightly arranged up-facing flower heads give them away as cut-flower varieties, bred by one or another of the big dutch bulb farms... and here comes the problem with IDing them. A name is a name is a name, if it still smells sweet! There are so many very similar plants and they often make it into our gardens as after thoughts from the cut-flower industry. Some vanish as quickly as they come, to be replaced the next season with something almost identical. Misnaming is common. It can be hard for even a good retailer to supply correctly labelled stock, even if they wish to. So if you buy with a name, it may not be true-to-name. If it didn't have a name, it's hard to know where to start.
But some are certainly distinctive! Just as I distinctly recognise the salmon-orange one... I just don't know what to call it! The odds of recognising and identifying garden-bred varieties is higher, but still, worth asking about any NOIDs you have pictures of. Someone might have a correct name or three.
Trust me to 'like' another plant with 'name problems' .. I should be use to it, with being a 'canna nut' .. yes, fully agree re the 'if it looks good, smells nice & grows easily, it stays' idea 
.. which developed after trying to (and still am) getting canna info in correct data for myself. It does my head in!
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