Background history:

'Tim's Poetry' is a dormant introduced in 2013 by Netherton.

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Tim's Poetry') .

Please join in, if you own this plant! We would love to know more! I award an acorn for performance information posted to this thread.



Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Tim's Poetry')

What a handsome name,
It looks worth a pretty penny,
I'd give you a review,
But I really don't grow any.

Tim

Hah, Tim, one you should have for the name alone!

I just got this little plant back in Feb. 2021. I had almost no mini daylilies and this is one I added to get the count up. Naturally, having it for such a short time there is not much I can say about it yet, but it did bloom and it is still living. So hopefully next year I can give a better report. It is still growing in a pot in a new bed I made mainly to show off some mini blooming daylilies.

I've been trying to acquire more of Jim Netherton's plants since I saw some and fell in love with them at the 2015 National held in Atlanta. Jim named the plant after Tim Herrington's wonderful habit of writing poetry. Some of his poems have appeared in Region 5 publications, and he sends some to friends for special occasions. Tim was also a mentor to Jim, as genetics for many of his small and miniature plants came from Herrington plants. Sadly, Jim Netherton died in 2020, and now their website is shut down, and plants are difficult to find. Tim's poetry finally established well enough to rebloom this summer, and it has good plant habits here so far. Color varies but that seems to be related to the time of day and light when the pic is taken.

Beautiful pictures of this plant, Julie.

@Seedfork Larry, I would be very interested in finding out how this one has done for you since you got it. I really like the pictures.

I received Tim's Poetry on 02-22-21, I show photos of blooms in May and June of that first year. Then I show no blooms in 2022 or 2023. Tim's Poetry was affected in 2023 by my spraying mishap, not as severely as many of the plants but it was definitely set back . Now I am just waiting till spring to see how well it survives the experience.

Thanks, Larry--will look forward to hearing how it recovers!