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Mar 24, 2016 6:30 AM CST
Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)
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Definitely too soon here, they're all still underground and currently being re-covered with snow! I know I've said this before, but don't be too quick to give up on a no show. I remember learning that the hard way, and a hybridizer in my region told me, when I first got into daylilies, don't give up on them until at least June or July. Of course most of you are way ahead in growth so maybe not as late as that for you. I also learned, again the hard way, not to go poking around to find out what happened to them and definitely don't dig them up to give them some TLC. Doing that seems to push them over the edge from just hanging on, and on the road to potential recovery, to croaking. If they have a problem their first winter like that it doesn't necessarily mean they'll have a problem in subsequent winters.

I have one that appeared very late one year, I was sure it was dead and had ear-marked the spot for a new daylily then, around July I think, it surfaced just as I was about to plant something else there. This was many years ago and it hasn't done that since.

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