PlantFiles: Daylily
Hemerocallis 'Joan Senior'

I like white flowers but like them in daylilies. This one is still nice. The flowers dont hold up to rain well as on other daylily cultivars.

I planted Joan Senior in spring 2008. She didn't do much that first year--I think I got a total of three blooms--but she took hold, overwintered nicely, and bloomed profusely this year. This was a strange summer, weatherwise. It was very cool and many perennials bloomed very late, while others were right on schedule. Three days after Labor Day 2009 Joan Senior still has two or three buds.

I gave this a neutral because the blooms do not get quite as big for me as listed. It is a very heavy bloomer for me. There are now many more whites to chose from and JS is not that ruffled or remarkable compared to some of the others now available. The plant increases fast for me.

Joan Senior was a very slow starter in my garden but now it is looking like it should. Hardy enough to stay in my wooden raised beds and blooms at the same time as my red Sphinx lilium so the white will be lovely with those double red lilium.

Aparently it needs growing conditions which the south side if my house never provided. It grew rather slowly for me and always flowered but never profusely. Bud count was quite low for a modern daylily and the flower size never reached the reported six inches, three and a half to four was the norm. I bought it from Oakes so I'm reasonably certain I had the correct variety but I babied it for three years and then replaced it with something which should be more productive.

"joan senior" has done great in my garden, it is a terrific rebloomer and i dont think there could be a better white one in my garden.

Long bloom period. Very nice white blooms on very strong stems! Happy to learn that she is evergreen and a rebloomer. I highly recommend this daylily!

I stuck this one in very heavy clay soil, in a very crowded bed, tucked under a butterfly bush. Geez, is it ever a beautiful surprise when one walks around the bend and discovers it! It's creamy off-white blooms are stunning!

6" white blooms, 25" scapes

too bad there isn't a choice for "very positive". lots of daylilies are pretty and good in the garden, but this one really stood out for lots of reasons. each double fan put up a single, sturdy scape, one scape had a large proliferation on it. fbo was 7/4 and the total bloom period was 35 days. the blooms are a beautiful light ivory with a hint of pink, sometimes recurved, sometimes not. it set pods like a fiend, and the pods were huge. it doesn't hold up well when watered, but it doesn't completely disintegrate like some, either. the literature says that it is very vulnerable to insect damage, however this year in my garden i didn't notice anything along those lines. popular for many years, and for good reason.