Background history:

'Voila Francois' is a evergreen introduced in 2008 by Stamile.

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2018

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

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 'Voila Francois')

I had it briefly, not long enough to bloom. My husband plopped something on top of it, a wheelbarrow maybe? Some of it died, the rest disappeared over winter. I will be watching to see if it is winter hardy in my zone, I might try it again, but I suspect it is tender. Mine came from a generous friend from a more southernly zone, where it was doing very well.

I can't wait until this summer to see what this can do! It grew from two fans in 2021 as a new plant to three this Spring! This will be the second summer in my garden so I'm crossing my fingers for some bloom…I just love the look of this flower! I will update in the Fall. Btw, during my great outbreak of rust last summer, VF did get some rust but not nearly as bad as some close neighbors.

It survived (sort of) here. Performance is inconsistent. Elaborately ruffled.

My experience is the same as @ mantisOH. This would most likely be the reason for the lack of registered offsprings. Mine is short with a few blooms each year. It has been here at least six years with minimal increase. Beautiful flower when in bloom. Most likely would do better in the warmer zone as seen from the database pictures and locations.

I got it last May. 1 scape. Beautiful flowers. It's still one scape. Had 6 flowers. Almost all the flowers I received that late didn't bloom. So that's a positive. I don't have high expectations, but the flower is very nice. There are other white flowers that look quite nice so there are viable options. I'm not sure I would recommend someone to go out of their way to purchase it or pay that much to get it. We'll see what happens this year!

I've had Voila Francois for 12 years. It's one of my favorites! The plant is bold and it starts blooming here in Florida in April. The budcount ranges from 14 to 31 buds. Right now Voila is filled with buds so I'm looking forward to seeing start to bloom. It'll be a while, although bloom season is happening 2 weeks earlier than last year and it's FFO was April 21 in 2021.

Here is a picture from last year.

I'm not really a fan of ruffled cultivars and I would never have bought this one. But I had an e-mail conversation with Francois Verhaert and he recommended this cultivar very much (not only because it was named after him).
So finally I got it from him and the result is: I really love it - it's one of my best near whites, not because it's very white (it isn't) but because of the incredible texture of the flower.
I had Victorian Lace and gave it away because I didn't like the plastic like texture. So I was sceptical - but then I saw the first flowers and was completely blown away. The difference in my garden ist huge - Voila Francois looks like made of whipped cream.
My plant is still small (not a fast grower) but it performs quite good - here are some pics:

Voila Francois has been my second-favorite near-white for a few years. It reblooms really well and just seems to keep going. Long bloom season! I haven't counted buds. It's just so consistently creamy and ruffled (but not hung up). Opens early, so it's at its peak when you see it each morning. Pollen more fertile than pods here. Truly impressively beautiful, and every bloom a triumph. Like Sue says- whipped cream. I have so many pictures, but there hasn't been a day of bloom where I didn't want to take more.

It is hardy enough to manage well in a pot here in 7a. I haven't noticed the bodacious branching, but that is likely related to pot culture. I bought it from the south and it likely carried rust initially, but only moderately infected in that year of the Great Outbreak. Worth having.


The right front and back blooms are Voila Francois; the left bloom is White Mountain.

Whenever I see a picture of Voilà François, I stare at it. It's a little too ruffly for me, but it's a stunning bloom and very photogenic.

I had to look up how to pronounce it, good thing I did. I was so far off.

Seedfork said: I had to look up how to pronounce it, good thing I did. I was so far off.

It's fun to say incorrectly just to mock the fancy French, Larry!

2022 update…a good year for VF! By Spring, it was up to 3 fans, and by October, it was up to 5. I had a few lovely flowers ( 8) from July 14-29. There was also a rebloom scape which gave me one last flower indoors in November.

2023 update…an impressive year for VF. It had an initial bloom in July from the 5-30, with 13 blooms. Then it rebloomed in September 10- November 2, producing 12 more blooms. They are so strong and have such a heavy substance…just beautiful.