I know for a fact that I have bought well over 1000 named daylilies, with roughly 20 to 30% of them being fully evergreen. I have only ever lost 2 plants! I will eagerly admit that I have had a bunch that more or less just sat there year after year, but they didn't die! I can think of three more that were virtually on the brink when I took them out. Actually, one of those is now potted and doing really well... and it is supposed to be dormant- although it isn't. I did get one from a grower two years ago that was a very small pencil sized single fan. I potted it and kept it in the greenhouse. The more I watered it the more it died, so I am assuming it had been hit with Round-up before I got it, and I don't count that one.... Wilma R. Penland is another one that just kept lingering until I had my fill of it, but it didn't die. My Chihuahua Bites is another, but it was a bonus plant that I didn't order anyhow. Dreamliner was hardy enough, but it just didn't do well here and I took it out.... That was a $250 mistake!
I do know that in southern growing areas, they have crown rot, where we normally don't have that here, so I suppose I can understand a few more lost plants in those places, but 64? WOW! Trying to be polite, but I really have no response to that. Double wow!
