When you start seeing more brown outer blades, is that signifying anything such as the onset of growth slowing down or stopping? This is odd (to me), but the newly planted daylilies in the front of my yard (south facing) are all green, very little dying blades, and putting on new growth. The back yard (north facing) daylilies are still all green, but I am noticing more brown blades. Both get pretty much all day sun. There is probably a micro-climate between the front and back yard, which may account for the ones in the front showing all green, no browning blades.