Thanks everyone. I am fairly new to daylilies but I never expected the evergreens to go dormant. I would expect that from the sev or dormants. Plus I am in zone 8 and so that's a bigger shock, I could understand this happening in zone 5 or 6 and up. To me it is like a tropical plant behaving like a dormant, amazing. I also got a lot of rain but it looks like the dead ones are a result of root rot and probably not the cold. They are starting to sprout with beautiful new foliage, which is something I heard dormants would do.
Last year I made a list of 75 daylilies that had gone dormant and I just thought they were registered wrong. To me, if they go dormant in zone 8 then how could they be evergreen and if they really are, then who are they evergreen for? Maybe zone 9 & up?
@Tina, Whoa! your evergreens act like dormants in zone 9? I would have thought they were dead too!
@kim. ...(Most of mine have decided winter sucks)...They are right!!
@JWWC, after seeing the weather reports for IN, I am surprised any evergreens could live there. LOL. Some refer to them as "tender". Which adds to my confusion.
