Background history:

'The Fantastic Barbara Watts' is a evergreen introduced in 2014 by Salter.

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2019

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'The Fantastic Barbara Watts') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'The Fantastic Barbara Watts')

I planted this Daylily with one fan in the Spring of 2021. It didn't bloom until September 24, when it bloomed through October 20 with 10 flowers. That October, it still had one fan. The following April, again, it was still at one fan. There was no bloom at all in 2022 but by October, there were two fans. They were also slightly rusty from a rust epidemic.

When she flowers, she is very pretty. The plant is not impressing me with it's ability to multiply but I guess that's what happens with one fan.

This cultivar was new here last year. I didn't get much patterning, but it was pretty. I liked the matching eye and edge, and that edge is pleasantly frilly. Budcount wasn't impressive. I think I remember some diamond-dusting- and rust susceptibility. She lived in my quarantine area and succumbed to it.

Did you notice the past tense, alert reader? Yes, indeed. Unfortunately, I lost her (along with her new-to-me friends) in the moist hard freeze/warm cycling this past winter. She was potted, and it didn't suit her over the extreme winter. I won't be replacing her.

Just as well my fall reserved plant was "not available" for spring delivery.

2023…Still not really rocking. I think this plant is too tender here. I had two blooms caught on camera and it grew another fan to end at two. It's very pretty but will probably be replaced.