While I understand the logic, Sue, the terminology related to "dormant" daylilies has been around so long it will be a disservice to the buying public to suddenly change to "deciduous" describing foliage habit when "dormant" has be relied on to note a particular growing habit as well. It is highly desirable for plants to lose their leaves IMHO just from the rust issue alone. It is particularly problematic to people who have both northern and southern gardens....Larry Grace and Jamie Gossard come to mind. They can easily register an evergreen as deciduous (not saying they will) because where they grow some of their evergreen registrations in the north, the plants can and will lose their leaves after being frozen solid. The "it must be deciduous somewhere" approach will likely be used to register evergreen daylilies as deciduous when they should be registered as evergreen. Evergreens in the mid-Atlantic can have all their leaves frozen off some years, but will continue to produce new leaves in others years or during a warm up.....they are still evergreens....even when they have had their leaves frozen off. But without an open discussion about dormant growing habit and a place to register this growing habit on the registration form as well, I believe you leave the door open to misregistration. This is probably the most dishonest part of the registration process anyway because many hybridizers register in the off season....sometimes when daylilies are under snow and they just guess about foliage habit. The AHS truly does need to learn more about dormancy and the differences in the crowns of evergreens vs dormants. The "it's five o'clock somewhere" approach works in other parts of my life....but I can see this leading down a road I don't want to travel with daylilies. There is no consumer advocacy group or a deciduous daylily police to monitor daylilies that are registered incorrectly, is there??
