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philljm said:EVERY daylily I own is currently dormant. They are all brown and looking dead. It will be interesting to see what survived this winter, with the almost record breaking deep frost, frigid temps, and ice build up on top of snow. Not a bit of green anywhere - not even the grass, except for some hardy Forget Me Nots peeking up right against the east side of the house.

And even though I am in Wisconsin, I have almost an equal mixture of dormants, semi-evergreens and evergreens. Plus I have some seedlings I am trying to identify the foliage, and am still not sure what to call them. Perhaps I can call them "dormant when the winter is frigid"

Spring, if it ever arrives, will tell. ~Jan

For what it's worth, and because I can enable with the best of them, I had a lot of success overwintering plants in pots on my unheated porch. They were inside from around November 1 and they aren't going out until later this week. I gave them ~500mL of water around the beginning of December and nothing until (the pots were frozen solid most of the time) last weekend when they all got some snow that would slowly melt down into the pots. I've got new growth starting on everything out there. I was really nervous with how cold it was this year but this experiment has been a success for me.