Background history:

'Bonnie Corley' is a evergreen diploid introduced in 1992 by Hendricks-W..

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2006

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Bonnie Corley') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Bonnie Corley')

I purchased this plant back in April 2015 from In The Neighborhood Daylilies. The blooms on this plant have to be among my most photographed blooms in the garden, maybe even # 1. On some plants I have to wait for many blooms before just the right one is able to be photographed. With Bonnie Corley I can walk down to the garden any day, pick almost any bloom and take a beautiful photo, it is that good.
Today when planting some extra seedlings I found a Bonnie Corley cross, but the pollen parent was unknown. I said to myself, I am going to plant this today because no matter what I crossed Bonnie Corley with, the bloom will probably be beautiful...we shall see.
It sends up a lot of scapes and even if it does not have a high bud count it makes a lot of blooms and reblooms. It usually starts blooming in late April or early May, I did not keep notes on when it stopped blooming, but it does have a long season here.
I like to include photos, and with Bonnie Corley I have plenty of them.
The plant does get rust some years, and one year I cut the foliage way back, the plant bounced back like a champ.

One of my favorites every year.

I got four fans of Bonnie Corley from @Seedfork exactly two years ago (September 1, 2021). I second everything Larry said about it in his review above. Bonnie Corley delighted me last season with its perfect blooms. I love the rose-colored eye with the distinctive way it seems to "bleed" into each petal.

This season it has really come into its own, blooming steadily from May 17 and reblooming after a brief rest period. It just finished its rebloom on August 29. It seems that I posted hundreds of pictures of Bonnie Corley this year on the forum. That is an exaggeration, of course, but Bonnie never has a bad hair day. Every bloom is perfect, and she produces a lot of them. I would say it is a little taller than its registered height here, and though it has shown a little rust, that was at the end of the season when lots of otherwise-resistant resistant plants do. I would say the plant is largely resistant. She also produced a bunch of proliferations this year. The plant is both pod and pollen fertile. One more thing--Bonnie increased significantly this season. The original four fans have doubled.

I cannot understand why it is not grown more, maybe because it is an evergreen? I strongly recommend it.

Looks like a keeper!