Over the years, I have learned to be EXTREMELY careful about planting daylilies grown SOUTH of here in the late fall. When I used to order regularly from the Stamiles and Luddy, I'd order but have them hold anything for spring shipping, and the plants always did fine! Plants grown in this climate or futher north usually do OK if planted by around 20th of October. But I did have to learn this lesson the hard way. The first time my garden was to be on Regional tour way back in 2005, I had a case of the last minute "hypers" the year before and ordered a bunch of new intros from Florida and other southern climes the fall before the Regional. ( which, stupidly, was too late for much impact, anyway but I've seen a lot of people on National/ Regional tours who do the same thing.) Big, big mistake!! I put them in around Mid-Oct. and then we had about a 40 degree temperature drop and hard freeze about a week later. I lost many, many expensive plants that year and have never done that since. It honestly surprised me to read on this thread that some of you north of here are successfully planting this late - hope you won't have a sudden cold snap anytime soon. We're cold here and no way is anything else going in before spring. I'm actually thinking about reinforcing the new ones just planted a bit more with a few more bags of mulch! That year we got the cold snap, I remember ( it was right before Ned Roberts passed away) he brought me one of his new intros from FL to Lilyhemmer, and I was so thrilled to get it! It froze in the cold snap, along with some of David's and Mort's new ones ( they were still in FL) and a bunch of new ones from the Stamiles and Luddy. Difficult lessson.
The second time the garden was on Regional tour ( 2012) I decided years in advance that I would NOT put anything new in after 2010 so that everything would be nice clumps. For the most part, I stuck to that.
