Background history:

'Jan's Twister' is a evergreen diploid introduced in 1991 by Jan Joiner. Joiner Gardens is located in Savannah, Georgia and was established in 1962. For more information about their Daylily Gardens:
http://www.joinerdaylilygarden...

Additional info about Joiner Gardens can be found on this thread:
The thread "ATP Series: The Daylilies of Royce, Jan and Aaron Joiner" in Daylilies forum

Jan's Twister is an early to mid-season bloomer with possible rebloom. It has earned the following AHS awards: Award of Merit: 1997, Honorable Mention: 1994, LAA: 2003, and L/W: 2000. It is both pod and pollen fertile with 56 registered children currently: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Jan's Twister') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Jan's Twister')

Jan's Twister was a gift and hasn't done well for me. Always hopefully for next year. Love the color and form.

I love Jan's Twister. I have had it for many years. It is very hardy in the north and forms a nice clump rather quickly. It's stunning when several flowers bloom at once. Only downside is that it won't set pods for me but its pollen is dynamite. It does well in hot weather and blooms never melt here.

Jan's Twister has a bloom I like to photograph. It quite lends itself to framing and each bloom can be idiosyncratic. It looks very good when there are multiple blooms and, if you have it, think of setting it as a feature plant in your garden.
I selected it for my subtropical garden because it had multiple awards and did well in the popularity vote. It flowers here late in the second month of spring or early third month and reblooms. It is a good parent, fertile both ways.
For some reason, I have not written down a rust score for it. Hopefully this means it is resistant. I will add this later as spring hits.

Jan's Twister has done well here, plenty of buds and nice looking blooms. Apparently I got it before o started worrying about evergreens, because it is plated out in the yard where my hardier plants are. It has never missed a beat. Definite keeper for me.

Jan's Twister is going into its fifth year in my gardens and it does very well in my cold climate gardens. This one is gorgeous!

The scapes are listed for 28 inches and it does at least that, though it always feels 'taller' when I see it in bloom. The blooms hold well above the foliage and I do have to agree with other comments: this one stands out!


I did have an occasion, a couple of years back, when two of its flowers were fused together at the base, but generally they maintain good separation. And these flowers are large... listed as 11.5-inch blooms. Not sure they are 'quite' that big, but they are larger than any other daylily blooms in that area of the gardens.

The petals often curl, the sepals have been known to quill ... there is even a slight ruffle along the edges of some blooms; and honestly, no two blooms are ever the same. But that's one of the things about it that I enjoy: it's never boring! This one is a keeper.