Background history:

'Bettylen' is a dormant introduced in 2011 by Heemskerk.

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

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 'Bettylen')

Bettylen is quite pretty. It hasn't been exactly a crazy performer. Not bad but not crazy. This was its third summer in the ground for me and it did have a long season, starting June 26 ( Early) to August 13 ( mid Late). It didn't bloom every day however, producing 23 flowers over the course of a little under two months. Very rarely there were two flowers on the plant at the same time and only once were there three.

It's relatively short at 22", which is about what my plant reaches. So I guess I would recommend Bettylen for a smaller garden space, where you don't want a Daylily that's going to take over. It's not a fast increaser, at least so far. But the flowers are very pretty!

Bettylen from a big box outlet is a dormant that didn't do well in my TX climate, didn't bloom after year 2 and was a rust bucket, when adjacent plants were fine, before giving up.

Bettylen had a great year! She bloomed from June 27-July 18 with at least 32 flowers… best performance the plant has had! This garden doesn't get rust as it isn't near new plantings.

2023 update… Bettylen had fewer flowers this year, 23 counted but made up for it by increasing by 3 fans for a total of 9. Should be a good show next year.