This isn't a daylily loss, but I was almost sick to my stomach yesterday when I realized that my Franklinia had not leafed out yet. The freeze/thaw/freeze of this past winter seems to have done him in.
When I bought him in 2009, the $38 I paid for him was the most I'd ever paid for a tree. We carefully fit him into the back of my PT Cruiser, and I drove him home from Fayetteville GA (approx 50 miles), and gave him a place of honor in my yard. He rewarded me by surviving, and a couple years later, he bloomed. Last year was his most blooms ever, and I was looking forward to even more blooms this year, since he was obviously happy in his home.
But instead, he's just a bare stick, six feet tall, with little twigs that are bone-dry when you break them off. Each little twig is still topped by the terminal bud that he had before that last freeze.
