In the spring here, when the snow cover thaws, the deer eat or have already eaten the leaves of most of the daylilies in my field. That makes it difficult to check registered classifications. The assumption has been that some of the daylilies registered as evergreen in locations further south of me are evergreen because they do not experience the environmental signals that cause them to set buds. Such daylilies would more likely experience those signals here where days can be shorter and the temperatures can be lower.
One such daylily is 'Priscilla's Rainbow' (PR). It is registered as evergreen. It sprouts in the spring in Ontario as a dormant. It also does that in Kentucky. However I think that it was simply incorrectly registered as evergreen and that it sprouts as a dormant everywhere that it is grown.
1) Does PR sprout like an evergreen for anyone?
2) If you grow any registered evergreens that sprout like dormants in the spring can you please name them.
Priscilla's Rainbow (Spalding-Guillory, 1985)
height 22 inches (56 cm), bloom 6.25 inches (16 cm), season M, Evergreen, Diploid, Pink lavender with rainbow halo and green throat.
Photo courtesy of Sue B. (Sooby).
By sprout like a dormant I specifically mean that the sprout has some very very short outermost/lower "leaves" that do not get very long at all.