I will have to come back to this later for full review, but just wanted to say that I love this daylily. Like Valerie said, the blooms are always open nice and not splotchy.
Okay, editing to add my full review of Doctor Who. I received a double fan of this daylily in May 2015 as a gift from some club members since I had not been in the club long enough to get asset plants that were being auctioned. It bloomed on June 23, 2015, so I was pretty excited about that.
So in 2018 this is what it looked like. It had probably increased to 6 or 8 fans by now. Looking at all my pictures over the last five years, it usually blooms during the last two weeks in June. Not a very long bloom time, but I did get a rebloom scape that went until mid-July this year. This picture was taken at 7 PM on 6/11/18, so the blooms had already faded some.
Doctor Who is not what I would call an early morning opener, but was usually fully open by 8am. A lot of times, the colors had faded by the time I got home from work to get a really nice picture of the blooms. But I must have taken a vacation because I got some nice pictures of it during the last week of June 2020. And it has multiplied even more. The stats say it should be 28 inches tall and that is probably about right and the blooms are just over the top of the foliage. Any further down in the foliage, and I probably wouldn't still have this one in my garden. (as an aside, the buds at the bottom right front of this picture are Hakuna Matata-it doesn't bloom until after July 4th)
Usually I don't get rebloom, but we had a nice rainy spring and I think that is why I got this rebloom scape. You can also see the branching from the other bloomed-out scapes. It is supposed to be 4-way branching and maybe some do. Even though the branching seems close, I never noticed the blooms getting in the way of each other. Bud count for me is probably more in the 10-15 range (unlike the 21-25 stat in the registration).
I have never had rust on Doctor Who even though it is planted pretty close to the rust-prone Seal of Approval.
Just for kicks and grins, here are two pictures of blooms on the rebloom scape that shows how much the blooms fade between morning and evening. The first picture was taken at 6:30 PM on 7/14/20. The second picture was taken at 8:30 AM on 7/18/20.
Doctor Who is listed as semi-evergreen so I just looked out my window and noticed that it is somewhat green here in my zone 6b garden.
Even though Doctor Who doesn't bloom for a long period and doesn't get a lot of blooms for me, I really like the colors and the way that the clump is shaping up, so I plan on keeping this one.
