This is crazy. I was using my hands to rake all the old brown leaves and mulch away from Candide when I felt a hard stem in the middle. I thought it was a weed so I pulled it up. It was actually the bottom 3" of an old scape with a dried up mass of leaves attached to it.
I noticed a little green sticking up through the dried leaves. It was an old proliferation that I never saw last year. I pulled the old outer leaves away to expose the green underneath.
We had several nights of freezing weather about a month ago, getting down to about 17 degrees. I did not cover my daylilies but did mulch heavily with old oak leaves. The last week has seen temperatures in the mid-80's.
Could this proliferation possibly root??? I have it in water to give it a chance.
Sure, that has a good chance, look how far it's made it already! Some folks prefer rooting it in a dark glass with water, some people stick it straight into dirt. Let us know how that works out!
@Zoia. I always start my proliferations in water because I usually start them in the summer months when it is hot and dry here. The success rate is near 100%. But I have never before started one in winter! I have it in water in a Solo cup.
