1. Evergreen means all year round, but only in the south. It will die back in the north.

2. Early is relative to the zone you live in. My early in KY is at the very beginning of June. My spring bulbs, etc. were March-April. Debra started early May [TN], Kay started in April, and it was not until early July for Celeste [NH].

3. Varies greatly. Rebloomers do both of what you said, and I have one that blooms earlyJune then it's reblooms start in Sept. or Oct.

I will try to answer your questions.

1. Evergreen means it keeps its foliage year round unless it is in a zone that experiences frost and then it will die back. The evergreens in my Indiana garden don't look all that different in the winter from the dormants except you see mushy leaves trying to grow near the ground. In the spring the foliage looks rather bedraggled until they grow out of the damage. Dormants come up with beautiful foliage in the spring because they went totally underground.

2. Early is based on what is early for daylilies, not what is early for all flowering plants in the spring. Early is a relative term and in my opinion if you want early ones, you just have to give it the trial and error. Find the ones registered as early or extra early and give them a try. I don't grow azaleas but in my zone no daylily blooms that early. For example, Stella de Oro is probably one of the earliest seen daylilies in my area. Stella is actually registered as a early midseason. The registration is based on what the hybridizer observed in his garden and may not be applicable to yours. Another example is Lava Flow. It is consistently one of the earliest to bloom in our garden, but it is registered as early midseason. I know of no daylilies that bloom with azaleas with perhaps the except of H. dumortieri, (it might be after the azaleas) which is a species that has a short blooming season and flowers that are not very showy.

3. How a rebloomer acts is dependent on its genetics and growing conditions. My understanding is that a daylily needs heat and water to rebloom. Of course, some never rebloom. Others will have what is referred to as instant rebloom. While the scape is blooming the plant puts up another scape from the same fan. Many of the daylilies of Richard Norris are known for this characteristic. That will give a long season of bloom. Others are more like Stella. They bloom in a flush and then wait for a while for the next flush. Stella might bloom a lot, but it is not constantly in bloom. Usually the rebloom is not as heavy as the original bloom. You may have fewer scapes and fewer flowers on each scape. Or you may have more flowers (and sometimes larger flowers) on the rebloom scape. It depends on many factors--genetics, light, heat, water, etc. In our zone we are happy if we see any rebloom even if it is just one scape in the clump.

I hope that answers your questions.

Nancy

wow, you two covered it all !! thank you very much, seriously

Let me put my two cents' worth in here. Most of the rebloomers send up a second scape from the same fan. Often the first scape comes from outside the fan and the second within the fan. Stella blooms twice. It has a big first flush, then generates new fans. The new fans bloom. That's why you see Stella in late summer with blooms on the outside of the plant, where the new fans are. This happens most often when Stella is in a big clump.