I have had Strikingly Dramatic since intro as well and like Alex have observed that it is an evergreen. Not listing foliage type on the registration is certainly strange. When I purchased SD I knew from it's parentage that it could be an unhappy grower here. Gerda Brooker died, twice, Off Beat is Awakening Dream X Mask of Time. Awakening Dream also died here and Mask of Time was relocated to a garden a zone warmer. Catcher in the Eye was very happy here for 5 or 6 years, huge clump... died this past winter. Strikingly Dramatic comes up very late spring, grows fine but has not yet bloomed for me either. While it is always preferable to plant in the spring here to give the plants time to settle in I do purchase some for fall delivery. My keeper sdlgs typically are not moved or lined until the mid to end of Oct because I need to get the pods off first, I've done them as late as the day before Thanksgiving - won't do that again though, everything returned fine in the spring, but I have a few extra grey hairs from worrying that I had really skrewed up all winter long!
Foliage type of a plant or it's parents does not guarentee hardiness or a lack of, or even what you would get for foliage types/hardiness in seed crosses. Rock Solid is registered as coming from two evergreen parents, it is a dormant, excellent grower in z4 and produces many dormant sdlgs when used even when crossed to a tender evergreen. When checking parents of plants or seeds I may purchase I consider how the parents perform in other areas not the foliage types. In the case of Strikingly Dramatic I had the info and ignored it. Living here in z4 this is the chance I sometimes take.
Snowing here today, the daylilies may get a winter blanket for x-mas!
