Background history:

'Texas Blue Eyes' is a evergreen introduced in 2004 by Carpenter-J..

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2008

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

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 'Texas Blue Eyes')

This cv is borderline hardy in my area as expected of most evergreens. It is in the most protected spot of my gardens and has been here 6 seasons now--still only 6 fans. I get 6 blooms on 2 way branching but the blooms are so gorgeous to me that it continues to occupy prime real estate!! The height is a little over 20" and I look forward to seeing its pretty face every year

I had Texas Blue Eyes in my garden between 2011 and 2016, then donated it to the club sale. It is a nice plant and has some nice looking kids, but it was only 20 inches tall and bloomed just barely above the foliage. I prefer the blooms to be at least a few inches above the foliage. Sometimes that pencil edge around the eye really stands out and makes it looks very dramatic. I didn't take note of bud count and branching at the time.


From the pictures I have, it seemed to increase at a decent rate. If only looking at the bloom, I would fall in love with it all over again. Just wish the scapes were a little taller.

I have grown Texas Blue Eyes for many years. It was once a massive clump that bloomed and rebloomed well - until slugs devoured all but three fans. I have moved it twice since that catastrophe, and now it seems to multiply very slowly. I do like the blooms, and I have gotten some nice, taller seedlings out of it.

I purchased 2 fans of TBE in 2016. I believe it bloomed that year. I thought it was a goner after its first winter. I ended up digging up that entire bed to dig out some invading roots a couple of years later. Lo and behold in 2020 one fan bloomed! And it bloomed again in 2021. So I can't say much about it except that it is hardier than I expected. It also must act as a dormant for me because all the other plants in that bed are dormant, SEV or EVs that act as dormants and I never noticed an evergreen fan all those years. Now if it would only start increasing that would be lovely.

I planted TBE in the Spring of 2021. It pretty much just sat there. I added two more fans this Spring of 2022. By fall it was up to 7 fans.

TBE bloomed July 7-23 with 8 blooms. They were a little imperfect but not bad. Hopefully, I'll get some more action next season

2023 update…TBE bloomed from July 7-21 ( not very long) with 14 blooms ( not very many). It is still at six fans. The flower is very nice, I love the lavender eye against the pink petals. It's fine that it's short, as it is in the front of the Patio Bed.