Where was Ra Hansen when she hybridized it and registered it semi-ev? The address on the AHS hybridizer list shows her about an hour and a half drive north of Becky's location (according to Google Maps). Being in a raised bed might have an effect in addition to climate though, and also fertilization.

Well, all I know is that all my registered dayilies are up and showing numerous nice long leaves except those two. The weather has warmed up (which was never really cold for but a week or so) and I am seeing new growth on all of my different cultivars. I look each day hoping to see some green peeking through the dirt. Nothing so far.

I just would not have expected either of those cultivars to go into what I would think is a hard dormant. It's really got me concerned, but what can I do. Nothing except wait and see. How long should I wait. 3 months, 6 months, a year to see some sign of life?

Well, all I know is that all my registered dayilies are up and showing numerous nice long leaves except those two. The weather has warmed up (which was never really cold for but a week or so) and I am seeing new growth on all of my different cultivars. I look each day hoping to see some green peeking through the dirt. Nothing so far.

I just would not have expected either of those cultivars to go into what I would think is a hard dormant. It's really got me concerned, but what can I do? Nothing except wait and see. How long should I wait. 3 months, 6 months, a year to see some sign of life?

I have been fertilizing them every month. Not a lot, but steady using MiracleGro, Fish Emulsion, Epsom salt, and worm compost.

Our warm winter so far has caused my tulips to start growing. Crazy!!!!

beckygardener said:How long should I wait. 3 months, 6 months, a year to see some sign of life?

I have been fertilizing them every month. Not a lot, but steady using MiracleGro, Fish Emulsion, Epsom salt, and worm compost.

How long you wait is up to you, it's hard to say in advance. You may simply choose to give up on them at some point if you need the space for something else.

It's not possible to compare fertilization between yours and Ra Hansens without more information. Checking her son Dan's website, he seems to be recommending a fairly "rich" growing medium for daylilies. Miracle Gro does have a high nitrogen number but how much it actually delivers depends on how much you use and how often, and whether any carbon sources in the medium "steal" it.

I don't have anything useful to say, just wanted to share my experience, this winter. Stella de Oro didn't go dormant, as well as the supposed dormants.. A couple of SEV went almost dormant, this is a pic I took today, I can't read the name of it anymore so I'll have to wait to see it in bloom to know which DL is.


I have almost all plants with green foliage and brown leaves all around, with new growth and new fans coming up.
We had some freeze at night the past week, we registered 19 F (7 below zero C), now temps are above 0C but forecast say we'll get freeze again. I guess the poor DLs are going crazy with this strange winter!

@beckygardener, I know this thread is old but I would like to know if Calgary Stampede and Raspberry Beret came back or not. Sometimes I will plant over a cultivar thinking it's a goner only to find it beneath the surface.

Hi Pat! No, unfortunately, neither plant came back. And I have lost others too over the years. I don't think some cultivars can handle the heat of central Florida. (Zone 9b/10a)

We have a bed that has pine and top soil and we get ir have a fungus in it called artillery fungus it looks like wasp nest. Things we have read about it says cant kill. Bleach tablets i heard help. If becomes an issue

Not quite the same issue that this forum thread is about, but it reminded me about when I moved Lady Neva last year in late spring.

I had it in a poor spot for so many years and meant to move it. It had just one little fan coming up by then so I decide I better move it or next year it would be gone for sure. The picture below is the one fan that I moved. Picture was taken about a month (I guess) after it was moved.


This next picture (taken about the same time) is the spot from which the fan (above) was taken. I SWEAR I saw NOTHING in that hole but the single little fan that I took out and transplanted. WHERE did all these new daylilies come from????

Could it be that a seed pod opened up and planted itself there??? But I don't even think Lady Neva bloomed for the last couple years when it was there.

Your right it isnt. I just saw what they were planted in and thought i might give that info, since i seen it in this thread. Most of ours that go dormant are listed as semis several went totally under, and we didnt have a bad wintef. I say wait another few weeks.

Sometimes after digging up and removing entire clumps, a year or two later, a new fan would appear. I'd wait until it was large enough to bloom, and lo and behold, it was the plant that had been removed several years earlier. I've concluded that even when only a piece of root is left, that can under the right growing conditions, grow into the plant that was removed. I've seen this happen at least a dozen times here,

@petruske, wow, I've never had that to happen. What normally happens is I will dig in a spot that I thought was vacant and find roots. If the crown looks pretty good, I'll transplant to a pot and see what happens.