Thank you so much, Maurice. Your assessment makes sense! Your last sentence echoes my own assessment that has come from years of experience in this location. That's the reason I purchase daylilies from resellers and the auction--prices are significantly lower and the pocketbook doesn't get dinged as hard when a daylily decides it doesn't like it's new home. In the past I focused my purchases on major hybridizers who live in my same county, assuming that their daylilies will thrive here. However, I forgot to recognize that they aren't creating plants that will grow here--they are aiming their introductions at existing customers "up north", which is where growers originated. Over a number of years, success with my purchases has been hit and miss. In the past couple of years, I've successfully included numerous smaller hybridizers who are in FL or in the very deep south and who take the time to label their products as EV, SEV or DOR. A tip of the hat to those who do this. A lot fewer of the plants I buy are whining and shriveling and that's good news!!!
