Interesting question, Becky.
I see that Raspberry Beret has a dormant parent, and there is a dormant lurking behind Calgary Stampede as well, but both of those plants are Florida-bred, with a lot of evergreen blood, so they shouldn't just turn up their toes in your area for no reason at all.
Were they husky plants on arrival? How many fans? How long ago did you get them, how healthy did they look during the last growing season, and did you set a lot of pods on either of them? Did you have any unusual hot or rainy spells?
I have daylilies here which are registered as dormant, but are still showing as much foliage as some of the evergreens. There can be a lot of reasons for this. I think that when a hybridizer gets to the point where they are introducing a lot of daylilies, they sometimes don't have time to pay enough attention to the foliage habit before registering. They may have been dividing it frequently for introduction, and therefore never let it rest in one spot long enough for it to settle down into its seasonal rhythm, or their weather doesn't allow them to clearly determine its growth habit. In a severe climate, most daylilies might appear dormant, and in a very mild climate, most of them may appear to be Sev, or Ev. It can be a tough call.
