It's still too early to tell much here, although I think I see the signs of the new ones I planted last fall, including Pandora's Box and Stephanie Returns. That's good news!

Although we had some nights in the single digits, all and all it's been an average winter for us here. I didn't loose a single daylily, which means I can't order many new ones (I don't know how to feel about that-lol). The foliage is about 1/2 up on most of them by now, but with a late Easter this year, we could still have some late hard freezes. Going to dip down to 32 at night over the week-end, so it's not over for us yet.........Maryl

I was out raking yesterday ran the rake across the garden and Xylophone Jazz just pulled right out of the ground. It is it's second year here and all it is , is two very tiny fans . One had crown rot so I scraped out the mush best I could with my baby fingernail *(that should give you some indication of how small the fans are) , hit it with some peroxide and well, time will tell I guess . The other looks fine but is the size of a seedling (and a not very old one at that) . This is why I don't like Florida daylilies here . So many of them do that to me . I paid what I consider to be big bucks for this plant and might as well have just set the bills on fire. Makes me so mad ! Anyway it is in the house now and under lights and hopefully I can rescue it .

Most of what I have checked out are doing ok , even the ones that heaved through our ungloriously soggy messy winter

That is such a shame, Signet. I had to look that one up, so very pretty. I saw its parents are Bluegrass Music and, there goes my memory but one of the candy daylilies. I have Bluegrass Music and it has always done fine, but it came back as only 3 fans this spring. We have certainly had colder winters since I have had it, one I know several days below 0. I assume it is all the wet winter this year.

Some are poking up new growth through the dead foliage. I won't clean all the dead foliage for another week since we are in a roller coaster weather pattern for the next couple of weeks. Raining here today and predicted for tomorrow too before a possible rain/snow event on Sunday.

Nancy: You must be in a very warm climate to have yours up all the way already.

Well, I am zone 6b, but like everywhere, it has its ups and downs temp. Last 2 years we had warm March followed by cold April, really bad last year that damaged lots of my plants, night temp in low 20s and even teens. Hopefully that does not happen again.

My daylilies are in various stages here in zone 5a. The ones planted near the foundation of my home are mostly poking their noses out, some have an inch or two of foliage. The rest of the gardens have very little going on, just daffodils growing.

Signet, I have refused to buy any daylilies from Florida, too worried about wasting my money. I did buy a few from a California grower last summer, all of those are poking up here, I was worried about them showing up again. The farthest south I’ve purchased, other than that lapse, is North Carolina. I hope you can find some beauties in Canada

Sherry

Daylilies are shooting up as well as grass and weeds! I had to get creative with editing not to show all the extraneous vegetation with these lilies!

Daylilies are up all over the garden in west central Indiana. It will get cold tonight (25), but I don't think they are up enough to get damaged.

Daffodils are just beginning to bloom here. So far the spring has taken its sweet time to arrive. I guess that's really better for the plants, though.

Nancy

Everything is looking good now, but in the past I've lost some in April. A couple seem to have lost fans over the winter, but I'm not noticing any total losses at this time.

I have one that I am worried about...lifterd and potted it, but everything else is doing well.

kay

Brrr, supposed to get to 26 degrees tonight. Hope it does not get that low, daylilies won't be happy. Or me either for that matter, I already have my internal thermometer set for spring.

So far so good. I truly can't recall ever losing a daylily due to the weather, so that is my general expectation. I think the weather here must be just right. I've never done anything special to keep from losing them. I think I lost a new one once; currently Thomas Tew, new from the fall, isn't much but I think it will be okay.

Most of mine are up; a few have that slimy look they sometimes get due to warm/cold/warm/cold. It is generally the same ones each year but they pull out of it.

I quit cleaning up the leaves a number of years ago. They can provide insulation and fertilization. They disappear quickly in the spring so they really don't hurt the look of the garden.

For the most part, mine are still slumbering. There are still pockets of snow cover in many of the beds. The dormants will take their sweet time popping up so they're a no-show just yet. The evergreens and semi-evs that are in the raised beds near the house are showing signs of life. I don't even have sightings of crocus, tulips or daffodils yet! You all are making me jealous. I won't get my first blooms until JULY!

Even though I have such long, cold winters I rarely ever lose a daylily. The more snow cover we get, the better the daylilies look come spring. They should be amazing this year!

Ah ! there is the problem ! Here we get bitter cold and high winds but little to no snow cover to protect anything . This winter was mostly rain and freezing rain and when not freezing rain we would have a rain storm and then the next day the temps would plummet majorly . Then when you expect it is all over we get rogue snowstorms ......Banana Belt of Canada they say

( yeah sure ! ) Its a wonder I don't lose all my daylilies

Signet, we had a springlike week or ten days and everything was up and looking wonderful....then the hard freezes and WW bit the dust! Ah well, everything else looks very good. All we can do about the weather is talk about it, more the shame. I am impressed that you can grow such beautiful lilys with the weather there

kay

Hi Kay , that is such a shame . I guess we really have to give this plant the credit it is due . If I plant them here , I really have to pay attention to what zone they are bred in and either not order ones that come from Florida or risk losing them here. I really think if we had some decent soil ( not heavy clay like we do ) things might do a little better . I don't know really what the answer is . I think though, I have finally learned that I can't order in the fall , plant and expect anything to survive. That some survive heaving out of the ground in midwinter always astonishes me .

I am not very good with recognizing the name of a plant with its initials . What plant are you referring to as WW please. ?

Signet, our zones are the same and sounds like we have the same kind of weather. Seems so surprising considering how far apart we are. We get the freezing rain, little snow cover, although temps below 0 don't happen that often, or last long, they have an effect. I am fortunate, there is a lot of heavy clay soil, but for some reason not bad in our lot. Next door they put in a road and had to haul in clay to stabilize it. Odd for Kentucky, but I am not complaining. I don't often lose in winter, but those late freezes can get a few, and crown rot takes a lit. Or course, I think I have complained about that more than once.

Holly, it is Wacky Wednesday...Or should I say WAS Wacky Wednesday. Looked great thanks to the pseudo spring then boom deep freeze, and it bit the dust. Ranger Bob looks a bit pitiful too, but hanging in so far. Like Mantis, I lost the Magnolia blooms to the freeze too.

kay

Nice looking daylilies

I thought with all the rain we have been having, and we missed out on late freezes, all my daylilies would be looking really good. Some look amazing, but one next to those are still staying just inches tall, but look look like they might be gearing up to move on up.

All my daylilies look great, thanks to lack of a late freeze. I did not lose any. I am most happy about Breathing In Snowflakes - looking good.