Fever has been a nicely consistent daylily for me since I purchased it in 2013.
It multiplies at an average pace with sturdy scapes and it is a bud-builder. It is now at least a 20 fan clump. I've never seen rust on it.
7/10/2019 - Fever is about 30" high and the blooms are well above the foliage, which is a trait I definitely love.
8/11/2015 - I had recorded that it gets 30 buds and 3-way branching. I don't baby my plants, so if it performs this well for me, I can't imagine what it would do in a well-tended garden. Here it is showing off its bud-building quality.
07/01/2022 - It is a mid season bloomer that blooms about six weeks. Even though it is just a plain red-orange (registered as a "hot, red self"), it is a great garden plant.
7/25/2015
7/6/2022 - It's a keeper.
I found this info about the hybridizer, Lucille Warner. Her name is listed as Mrs. Jay E. (Lucille) Warner in the hybridizer's registrant list and it shows that she passed away in 2001. Lucille Warner was from Galveston, Texas and registered at least 115 daylilies (one reference says 116), with the ever-popular 'Bitsy' being registered in 1963. The following page 14 from a special edition of the Region 6 newsletter, "Daylily Growers of Dallas" may be hard to read, so I've attached a link to the 2008 newsletter.
http://www.ahsregion6.com/arch...
She is also mentioned on page 44 of the 2020 Supplement to Oliver Billingslea's Historical Daylilies, Daylilies in the Garden, 1980-1990.
