Background history:

'Mean as a Snake' is a dormant introduced in 2004 by Shooter-E..

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2011

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Mean as a Snake') .

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 'Mean as a Snake')

I have had this cultivar for several years. My impressions:
Pros: Very intense veined dark plum color with an eye-catching paler border
Robust rebloom, and good branching on those non-leaning, taller rebloom scapes
Relatively fertile, much like Indian Giver
Winter hardy here.

Cons: Doesn't hold up as well as I would like on a hot, sunny day. Flowers tend to slick and wilt a bit. Looked better with afternoon shade, but then plant didn't increase as much.
My bud counts aren't as high as the registered stats.

It manages to win me back every year, though, with that branching and color (which cameras fail to capture.) I would probably buy it again. Here it is June 25th 2023: