Background history:

'Smiling Cobra' is a evergreen tetraploid introduced in 2015 by Pierce-G..

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2018

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Smiling Cobra') .

Please join in, if you own this plant! We would love to know more! I award an acorn for performance information posted to this thread.



Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Smiling Cobra')

Hey all, we obtained Smiling Cobra the first of last spring.
Jessie George gave me one fan as a gift. He kept the other df he had and told me he would keep them in case i killed it.
The fan we have scaped bloomed and rebloomed. We now have three fans. If we get the same results this year we might have a nice clump. It is pollen fertile, even though seeds didnt sprout. Probally our fault. No pods set, but i think that was because plant was weak from move. This flower is a favorite of ours. Big georgous blooms, opens well. This one you can spot from across the garden. I can recommend it to everyone that is in our zone

I also got Smiling Cobra last spring. Got a few blooms on it while it sat in a pot. Expecting improvement from it this year.

That one may have to go on my list, I love that look!

I planted Smiling Cobra in the Fall of 2023, 3 fans. By April it was down to one fan. I had no blooms this summer and seem to have missed it in the fan count. Hopefully it built some back. I hope it's not too tender for my yard…

2023 update…yes, Smiling Cobra came through with flying colors! This summer it bloomed from June 27- July 19, with at least 22 flowers counted. It did bloom very short but so did lots of other flowers. By October, it had actually grown to 7 fans…amazing! It is a big splashy flower that is hard to miss. I love the name!