Thank you Scatterbrain (I assume you have the daylily 'Scatterbrain'?) and Mayo. It's for scientific interest to try and get a better understanding of daylily behaviour. I noticed this year in spring that most (but not all) of the registered evergreens I grow had actually set dormant buds (because of the way they looked on emergence in spring). Conventional wisdom has had it that "evergreen" daylilies don't set dormant (resting) buds. Also the belief that dormancy is fixed, i.e. that a daylily registered as dormant will go dormant wherever it is grown, which appears not to be true, or at least if they do go dormant the leaves are not dying back in milder climates. Yes, Mayo, it is a bit difficult to tell if they are growing but if they are I would expect to see new leaves emerging from the centre, maybe slowly at that time of year. Knowing which daylilies behave a certain way in other climates helps suggest cultivars to test in other ways.
