Background history:

'Etched Eyes' is a evergreen tetraploid introduced in 1994 by Kaskel.

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Award of Merit: 2003
Honorable Mention: 1999
RWM: 2002

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Etched Eyes') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Etched Eyes')

An early bloomer here. Lovely softer yellow with prominent eyezone. Can wilt in heat. I would guess that it is a bit tender farther north, but hardiness factors are not always consistent with zones. Many cultivars that growers say do well farther north have failed here. Probably lack of consistent snow cover is one factor. Most years Etched Eyes has done well here.

I bought Etched Eyes bare root last spring from an Ontario daylily supplier. It grew very well last summer and flowered its first season in my garden. I love the soft yellow colour and the beautiful eyezone. This will have been its first winter in my garden, so I don't know its winter hardiness yet. My garden always has good snow cover, so I am hoping it will do well. I will update this thread later in the season once my daylilies start growing this spring. I still have several inches of snow over my gardens.

This daylily has been in my garden for around six years or more, it is totally hardy here, increases well it blooms early in the season. I have not counted the buds but it seems to have plenty of blooms to enjoy. I have not noticed that it wilts of course it is not real hot here when it blooms.

I have had Etched Eyes in our zone 5 garden for 3 years now. It was a bargain purchase/rescue at a local nursery. It was in pretty rough shape at the end of the season. For $2. it was worth a try. Planted and it was basically do or die. It has increased nicely and is an early bloom. It did re-bloom for me as well. I have it in an open area that the wind blows thru in the winter but also gets lots of snow cover.

It is a pretty early bloomer,and is hardy here in zone 6b.

This is one of my earlier daylily acquisitions, I find it quite striking, even my hubby who's not a daylily person has commented he likes this one.

I did move it a couple years ago and it resented being transplanted. I don't think it was getting as much sun though so that may be part of the reason.

Prior to that it made a very nice clump and the flowers have nice substance. Hoping for better things this year, since I moved it again last fall.

touchofsky said:I bought Etched Eyes bare root last spring from an Ontario daylily supplier. It grew very well last summer and flowered its first season in my garden. I love the soft yellow colour and the beautiful eyezone. This will have been its first winter in my garden, so I don't know its winter hardiness yet. My garden always has good snow cover, so I am hoping it will do well. I will update this thread later in the season once my daylilies start growing this spring. I still have several inches of snow over my gardens.

• Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Etched Eyes')
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Update
Etched Eyes came through the winter of 2016/17 just fine. It has begun to clump up well and looked healthy, although it did not bloom during the 2017 season. We had a very late, cold spring, so that may have played a part. We will see how it does during the 2018 bloom season.

Etched Eyes bloomed beautifully in 2018.

Etched Eyes has been in my gardens several years ... and has produced the most beautiful polymerous flower I've had so far in the gardens - a 5 x 5 poly:


But poly blooms aside, this is a beautiful daylily. My zone 3 winters have never bothered it or set it back at all, so for me that makes it reliably hardy. It is an early bloomer, and gives me something to look forward to before a lot of the others have begun flowering.

The edge boasts a lovely ruffle, the sepals recurve and that pastel lemony yellow with its raspberry / lavender eye lends elegance to the corner of the garden where it's planted into a perennial border. Very nice substance and lovely contrast to the foliage of a peony I have planted behind it.

Etched Eye has been growing here since 2016. It took a couple of seasons for me to find the best location for it. It is doing its best in a non-crowded location, full sun and a protected spot from winter winds. It has increased well, meets registered height with a bud count of 13 on 3 way branching. Early to mid bloomer