We've got 1-3 inches of snow coming later tonight. Let this be the last blast of winter. I hope your Ev and Sev daylilies come through this OK!

Debra

Debra: I saw on the weather map that this system was headed your way. We got about 3 inches of snow. At least it was snow here not ice. Do you still have many daylilies in your pot ghetto?....... I hope for the best for all my daylily friends here as February/March keeps us hopping back and forth between systems.......Maryl.....

Same here, i have been too lazy to measure how much snow we got last night, expecting 2 to 4". We got over 2 anyway. I was not too worried last night, but the 14 deg temps tonight bother me more. I figured the snow cover last night helped, but sunny this morning so I imagine much of that will melt today.

Maryl - We got just over an inch of snow with this system. I still have a few daylilies in pots, but they are all dormants so I'm not too worried about them.

Debra

I agree Nancy. The low temperatures are concerning and we certainly don't need them that low in our zones any longer. Last night it was 20 degrees here, not as bad as your 14, but it's getting late in the season for us to be having anything that cold. Next week we warm up, but who knows if it will stay.............Debra: My dormants are starting to break out now. I only have a couple that are hard dormants, and one is Dearest Valentine. I saw just a slight bit of green before this last front moved in. The snow is gone now (here today, gone tomorrow), so when it warms up outside I'll take another look.................Maryl

We got an inch or do of snow, its only 20*F today. upper 40’s and 50’s starting on Sunday for a week……wonder how long it will last. I have no daylilies in pots, have never tried that here in zone 5.

Sherry

Sherry: I imagine your snow is gone if temperatures there today (Sunday) are as predicted......Depending on if you are in zone 5a or 5b you might experiment with a pot of species daylilies in a warm sheltered environment outside, but I'd say your zone is probably too cold to overwinter above ground pots. Last year, when I lost about 40% of my daylilies, we dipped down into the 5b range for a few days, but our more sustained cold temperatures (which did the most damage) were in the zone 6a range. Usually we don't get much lower then some mid range teens here over winter, but it varies year to year............Maryl

Maryl, I have been curious about growing daylilies in pots for awhile. I have an unheated shed in my yard and store my potted hosta and heuchera in it over the winter with success for several years……that‘s why I am curious to try daylilies.

Sherry

I can tell you Sherry that in one of my less protected areas last year I lost all of the potted daylilies, even the dormants, EXCEPT for a large pot of Yesterday Memories and a smaller one of Debra's Dearest Valentine. I took it as pure luck on Dearest Valentine's survival last year and moved it to a better place this year. Yesterday Memories (despite being registered as an evergreen) is one of my oldest daylilies and has never flinched during any winter weather we've had so I wasn't as surprised as I was with Dearest Valentine's survival. Don't you have Dearest valentine?...........Maryl

We just got a dusting of snow but the temperature on Saturday were brutal. All of the semi-evergreens coming up had their tops frozen off.

Nancy

We had about 5 1/2 inches. We went from 60 plus degrees to low teens with wind chills near 0. This week will be in the upper 50's to low 60's. I am very glad that I super well mulched last fall. That should help. But this is no fun. I have no pots so no worries for me there. The daffodils look ok today.

I wondered about you both Nan and Brad. I saw Louisville (my old "home" town) was right in the path of this system so I knew Kentucky was probably in for it. March sure has come in like a Lion as they say. I hope it goes out like a lamb. This Wednesday the weather people are saying upper 70's, but another system comes in Friday to change that. Not sure if it's rain or snow though...............Thursday, March 17th, is St. Patricks day and the official start of our gardening season. Someone needs to stabilize the weather a bit more before I really go tearing into things though...........Maryl

We did end up with over 4" of snow, which hung around til Sunday. Temps did not get as low as predicted, just to low 20s. Saturday night I found a bucket of daylilies in water that I was thinking I had planted, Make it Snappy, one of my newer ones. Frozen into ice. Seems to be fine so far. Keeping my fingers

Nancy: Were the daylilies in the bucket of water last fall? As in, they had been in water from then until now?..................Maryl

No, Maryl, just 3 days. I have been digging out a bed full of some kind of nasty grass. The roots wind between the daylily roots, and in a few cases even drill through the daylily roots. It takes me a couple of hours on larger clumps to get the daylilies separated and pry all the grass roots out. It was late one day when I got them cleaned and I put aside to plant the next day and promptly forgot. I was surprised that it actually looked better than the plants in the ground

That makes more sense. The fact that you were out digging daylilies this early is a credit to you. We've only had a few days where it was even good enough to go outside, and even then the cold fronts were always coming right on the heels of them.........I don't know what that grass is that can penetrate daylily roots, but I don't want it. There are advantages to growing in pots...............Maryl

Nancy - I hope your Make It Snappy will be OK. That's such a pretty purple UF! I've been weeding and putting on grub killer, but I haven't dug any daylilies out of the ground yet. I'm sure there are more freezes yet to come. I remember we've have late freezes in April (past the last frost date) for the past two years. I wonder if it will be the same this time.

Debra