Background history:

'Nosferatu' is a semi-evergreen tetraploid introduced in 1990 by Curt Hanson. Curt does his hybridizing at Crintonic Gardens in Gates Mills, Ohio: http://crintonic.com/

Nosferatu is an mid-season bloomer. It has a rust resistance rating of 1.2. It has earned the following AHS awards: Honorable Mention: 1997 and Award of Merit: 2000. It is both pod and pollen fertile with 46 registered children: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

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

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Nosferatu')

Was great this summer. Hasn't been a fast multiplier here, but is a sturdy plant. Several inches taller than registered height.

I would agree with mantisOH about it being several inches taller than its registered height. I find that it increases at a fairly normal rate. It doubles its size each year. I would certainly give it room as the fans are large. I have hybridized with it and it is pollen and pod fertile.

I acquired 6 fans of this cultivar in April 2016. It is and continues to be potted up to be transplanted into a raised bed this Fall (soon). It bloomed for me in mid-June. I was not expecting to like it so much, but the color is an amazing deep purple. It is difficult for my camera to photograph it accurately. Here in the heat of summer, it does tend to slick as the day wears on, but I suspect it could do well in a partial shady spot. Which is where I am planning to transplant it.

It is currently at 5 large fans. I don't know what happened to the 6th fan. I didn't take stats on it this year, but here are three photos of it during blooming:

Early morning bloom (in shade) shows the true color:


This close-up shows the even darker color. But it is actually darker than this:


Sunny afternoon bloom shows slicking. Probably would do better in some afternoon shade:

Pulled 7 dead scapes off of my clump of Nosferatu this morning. The scapes averaged height was 33 inches, 4 of the scapes had 2 way branching and the others had 3 way branching. The average bud count was 14 per scape.
No blooms on it this morning and it will be a few days before there are any, there are three rebloom scapes growing as shown in today's photo.

I bought Nosferatu in the fall of 2021. I chose it for its rust resistance rating and good reviews.

The plant has taken off, thrived, and bloomed beautifully in its first season here. I love the blooms--the color and ruffles are gorgeous. Unfortunately it has shown some rust. I kept the rusty leaves trimmed, and am going to give it some more time because it is such a gorgeous plant. Right now it's on probation.

As others said above above, the plant's scapes were taller than expected.