Background history:

'Women Seeking Men' is a semi-evergreen tetraploid introduced in 1999 by Hanson-C..

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2003

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

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Women Seeking Men')

Vigorous and very well budded. Blooms later in the season. Big--both blooms and plant size. The size for me is a bit of a downside, as it is a space hog. But it's a radiant blossom, worthy of its HM.

This is a very vigorous plant in my zone 5. Extremely Pod fertile, and passes on great characteristics to it's "offspring". (40 children)

I just acquired this plant in the fall. With the great reviews, I can't wait to see it this year. I also planted it in an area where there is a lot of room for it to grow, because I heard that it was a space eater.

David

I love WSM....and have owned it since introduction. A great parent for all colors, easily fertile....a great plant!

One of the best here in zone 6b, great scape.

David - please comment this year on your plant's performance. I want to give you an acorn tip based on your experience with this cultivar.

Grew this one for many years.....had one of the biggest root systems and fan size imaginable....I sold it by the double fan because I couldn't get 3 fans in any box and it cost me an arm and a leg for shipping! Fabulous daylily. Perfectly formed flowers and wonderful scape. Curt had a real hybridizing gem with this one!

WSM likes my zone 4 garden it has been here for years. Well deserved the Honorable Mention award it recieved. This one has sturdy scapes with beautiful blooms. I have not added a picture to the database, sometime I will have to look thru my photo files or take another one and add mine.

I'm in zone 9a and WSM has done very well here.
Blooms almost constantly, increases, and sets pods readily.
A good plant.

WSM is a fabulous plant. I have grown it for 2 seasons with it blooming late, Aug 26 until frost. Cool nights do not affect this plant. It grew to 36" in 2017 {registered at 41"}, bud count of 16 with 4 way branching. A good show late in the season.

I bought WSM from Char Rich of Holdn' Heaven. She gave me five nice fans ( in person, so she didn't have to try to box them up!) that got planted in August 2023. Then when I went to Lillyhemmer in October, I acquired 3 more fans in a raffle. So those got planted in the same clump.

By April, WSM had lost a fan to start with 7. But it had a long vigorous bloom season from June 30- August 7 with at least 94 flowers. By October, it was back up to 8 fans.

What a tall, vigorous plant this one is! I put it in the corner of the new Terrace Bed so it would have a lot of room and it looks like it will need it! The scapes are tall and strong, they didn't hit 41" this summer, but close to it. The flowers are a hefty clear pink. And they are very fragrant too!