Background history:

'The Jury's Out' is a dormant diploid introduced in 2000 by Apps.

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2008

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'The Jury's Out') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'The Jury's Out')

The last flower to bloom in MI flower bed, typically in September
2019:
4" flower on 30" scape
up to 34 buds, 10 scapes up to 5 way branching
have had a few years and never divided.
sets some "bee" pods but it is so late haven't deliberately crossed it


Edit to add:
Has proliferations...one moved to TX where it does well and have bloomed a proliferation from the proliferation ; ) Pollen/pod fertile with bloomed seedlings. Recommended late bloomer.

I bought The Jury's Out about four years ago, I think. I had driven way out to the country to a nursery that carried plants unlike the local nurseries. It was late in the season. Maybe September. I saw it on a table with a handful of other daylilies they were trying to sell at the end of the season. They only had one. It still had buds! so I bought it. I haven't seen it there, or at any local garden center since. Lucky me.

The Jury's Out produces a lot of flowers for a long time. It starts late and keeps going through bud building and rebloom scapes. This year, TJO bloomed 7 weeks for me and provided over 150 blooms. The bud count is crazy high for my garden: high-30's or more on the better scapes.

It's very remeniscent of Genesta to me, accept it starts earlier and ends earlier.

I seem to use it every year to try to create more late-blooming plants, and it seems to be great at passing on it's late genes.

Here is The Jury's Out hanging with the Lates and Very Lates in my garden this summer:



far right



Here are some of the kids that I have from The Jury's Out.




And if that weren't enough, the best thing about The Jury's Out is that I talked Mike @Hazelcrestmikeb into trading a tiny piece of TJO for an enormous clump of Genesta. I talked Mike into letting me pick it up, and got to meet Mike, and get a tour of his garden. That was a really good trade for me.

Tim we both made out on that trade. Not to mention the one in 2022
Since getting The Jury's Out it has increased very well. I got a bouquet of blooms on a daily basis late summer. It has increased enough to divide it in 2024 and bring it more to the forefront. It is extremely fertile. A bright beacon in the late summer garden.

I purchased this plant from Dan's Designer Daylilies back on April 20th 2017. I got seven fans, I guess that should have been a clue that this plant multiplies well.
It is a great plant in my garden, but being a rather dated looking yellow bloom, it never gets the credit or attention it deserves from me.
I have always thought of it as being a great plant for later in the season and that was about it. I seemed to have never really paid attention to the scape height, the bud count or the branching. Well, until I noticed I had not written a review of this plant.
So I pulled up some photos and found that I had at one time actually taken a photo of just a single scape removed from a clump, the purpose was to show the branching on the scape. The plant multiplies very well and even grows lots of proliferations which are some of the best survivors out of the many proliferations I have planted. Very reliable bloomer, it has never missed a season and had a long bloom period later in the year. It recovers quickly from divisions.