Did you get any frost?

What I usually do with mail order plants that are sprouting is pot them up and plant in the garden later on. This will give them time to get established, adjust to light and temps.

If the roots are heathy, I'm sure they will be ok and send up new growth.

Just in case keep your receipt, McFaydens has a good guarantee policy.

Sharon

I do the same as Sharon, pot them up. Then I leave them sit in the house in indirect light for a few days before setting outside. If they do not have any leaves yet, I just set the pots outside in the sun.
As far as your daylilies that you moved, they probably are sending all their energy to the roots. In a couple weeks you should see new growth. Keep everything well watered until new growth appears.

Shelley

This is just my opinion that I keep to myself unless someone asks - but I don't mail order perennials anymore, besides woody ones or those with fleshy/bulbous roots. I have received little peat bags of half-dead roots from McFaydens & other places before, potted them up and they didn't grow. Now I get herbaceous perennials from only nurseries, seed orders and trades. Besides woody/bulbous types already mentioned, that is.

And due to past experience, I don't mail order anything but seeds from McFaydens. Sorry. I hope your plants come through.

I respect your opinion Gil, but you see, alot of us live in rural areas that don't have access to speciality nurseries like you folks living in the big cities.

I will order live perennial plants, roses, daylilies, Irises from reputable growers that have a good reputation and customer service, I too have had too many bad experiences with shipping live plants from some of the popular mail order businesses on the Internet. I only order rare or unusual that I know I would not be able find locally around here and I will only order from those that have a guarantee policy.

For McFaydens, Veseys, Botanus, companies like that, I've been only ordering bulbs, tubers and rhizome plants too.

Sorry to highjack your thread Janet, hope your plants make it as well.

Sharon

Sharon - I agree with you and you know I respect your opinion too :0) I just haven't had any good luck with non-fleshy rooted perennials by mail. I like to order things by seed if I can. BTW I don't get to Winnipeg much anymore and I haven't been to a nursery since last spring. I think the nurseries around here are pretty lame. I actually argued in favour of mail orders in a recent thread, but only for bulbs and woodies in my experience.

There are big 2 gallon pots of astilbes of various sorts on sale at Canadian tire for 5.99. I've put them in our sun room and will keep them there except on warm days and relatively warm evenings until the end of May. Astilbes are one of the few perennials I find fussy and I won't plant from the end of April onwards (as I will with most perennials). I've started to treat astilbes almost as annuals and 'if' they come back , fine. They tend to do better in nothern gardens with warmer nights (as do hostas).

Your daylilies will be fine. The hosta...??...probably fine but I'd keep an eye on it and cover it for the next couple weeks on cold nights if it pops above ground level.