beckygardener said: I am trying to determine myself, what my plants are. When does the growth slow down here in Florida for sev or dor? I am somewhat confused about timing.
IMHO it really depends on your weather. Here, most dormants show signs of going dormant when we have our first good cold spell. You can see all the dormants across the garden because the foliage turns yellow when it gets cold before it dies. However, they usually do not go totally dormant because it will warm up and they start to grow. I would say most registered dormants act more like semi-evergreens (or in this case semi-dormant as I have heard them called). If it stayed cold for a period of time then they would probably all go dormant. I can't remember exactly where I read this but I read that some dormants rely on cold weather where others are related to the length of days.
If we had a winter where we never got any freezes or frosts and stayed only mildly cold I would say that NONE of the dormants we have would ever die back. I could be wrong. I will try and take some photos today or next week of how the plants are acting here. At my old place that is usually 10° colder than the surrounding area I had some go completely under when we had stretches of days in the teens. It was older ones I had when I first got into daylilies; Black Eyed Susan and Pardon Me. I'm sure there were others but these I remember because I wasn't sure if they were going to come back up or if they died.
Here is a photo of how some dormants look here. Not all will die back and loose their outer green foliage, they just stop growing in the middle. I think I read that somewhere (the Robin maybe) and that's why I noticed this one yesterday
The foliage is cut back due to me just getting this replanted last week so normally it would be much longer. You can see the middle has no growth
