Background history:

'Bill Norris' is a semi-evergreen tetraploid introduced in 1993 by Kirchhoff-D..

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Stout Silver Medal: 2002
Award of Merit: 2000
Honorable Mention: 1997
JC: 1993
PC: 1997

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Bill Norris') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Bill Norris')

Beautifully formed. Usually blooms fairly early here, and sometimes there is rebloom, but I don't recall it last year. Great substance.

Mine always did exceptionally well til I moved it a couple of years ago. Til then it never failed to rebloom, lots of buds that stayed in bloom for a long time. Multiplies well, I have divided it many times and still have a large clump. The blooms always open nicely, just a great daylily.

I've had this one for many years, up here in Zone 3 Manitoba. I love its always perfect, beautifully shaped flowers, rich golden colour, long bloom period and good healthy foliage. It does increase fairly well, which is a good thing, because of the winter losses I have had, keeps my population even. It does need a sheltered location here, but does without mulching. A wind fence helps snow pile up on it, as mulch (which today, is about 3 feet)

In 2015, I finally got my Bill Norris Daylily. For many years I had restrained myself from getting "yet another gorgeous yellow", but finally I had a space for it. And now it is my favourite (along with Asiatic Pheasant and So Lovely).
In the first year it bloomed from July 9th to July 19th, and I rejoiced every time I saw it. It is so bright, has such lovely thick petals, and glows so beautifully.
A picture perfect blossom.

That first year I had also ordered Caribbean Frank League, and took this photo to remind myself to plant them together, with a Rudbeckia, as they bloomed at the same time, and the Rudbeckia shared their colour combination.



In 2016, it was planted in two positions, one in partial shade, with automatic watering, and one in full sun, near the edge of the bank. They bloomed from June 30 to July 22. However, that was the year that the voles and mice were ravenously eating the succulent roots of many of the daylilies along the bank, having underground access from the many mole tunnels underneath the whole backyard. That fall, we potted up what remained of the plants in 2 gallon black pots, with the bottoms cut out, and with wire mesh attached to the bottom, so that there would be better drainage, but so that the roots would be protected.



This has worked, but the plants have to be watered more frequently, and be fed as well.

I have had this plant for many years. It is a great one. Blooms are consistent in appearance. Since it has gotten established in its current location, I have been getting rebloom scapes for the past 4 years. It took about 3 years of not being disturbed to send rebloom scapes. I can dig into it now and it will still rebloom.

David

I planted Bill Norris in 2016. It did not bloom the first year and maybe not even the second year. The pic below is last years bloom (2018) but, as you can see in the pic, I have it in a spot where is it shaded by the house until around noon; then as the sun heads west, it is shaded by a very large cedar tree.
I see in the data base it has 101 children, so obviously it must be quite easy to hybridize.