Just want to add that there may be 2 kinds of dormancy:
light dormancy triggered when daylight hours shorten
and temperature dormancy triggered by cold weather.
I have both kinds of dormant plants here.
When days get shorter, some plants just pull up the covers and go to sleep.
Then, as soon as days start getting longer, they get active, even if it is cold.
I understand that they have some type of plant anti-freeze at that time so they're okay.
The temperature type waits for cold weather like the first hard frost or freeze to go to sleep.
Sometimes they are going to sleep when the light dormant plants are waking up.
