How about some hostas?

My first impression when I saw the picture was that it was one of the Fulva Europa varieties. Marg http://members.tripod.com/bigalligator_1/id9.html

Some evergreens and some sevs are hardy up here; some dormants are not. And, as floota has said, many southern plants that might die if fall-planted do well if they've enough time to acclimate....baileycat, I'm sorry you lost that daylily (how that must have hurt!), but it's not a reason to write off Smith daylilies totally. Here's one way I decide on southern-bred daylilies, and on evs and sevs....do they grow and flourish in northern gardens? That is, have they been offered for sale after MORE THAN ONE season up north? You can take it a step further and seek them out not just in northern gardens, but in gardens in your own zone or even in your own area. Similarly, you can ask gardeners in your zone about their experience with daylilies whose hardiness you're unsure of. There are southern ones in the AHS display garden about 12 minutes from my house....she grows Kinnebrews, Carpenters, I know she's got some lovely Smith plants as well. I forgot to note the names, but I do recall seeing FAME last summer. It looked very good - not with as wide an edge as you'd see in Florida, but I was able to ID it immediately. Another thing you can do is plant your iffy ones in a protected location. I bought a bunch of Trimmers last fall from someone. Not expensive, but still...who wants to lose a plant? I placed them in a south-facing, raised bed that's protected from wind by a wall of the house. That wall is stucco and so retains heat. On one side of the bed are the stones of the patio. Every one of the plants has come up. I think the location was one factor. In fact, I also won an ev. seedling on the auction that has two ev parents. A silly, spur-of-the-moment thing. That one I planted directly next to the patio's stone. The plant got frost-heaved, and the main fan died; happily, it's growing a new fan from underneath the crown. Same thing with a Lambertson I'd hate to lose, VIOLET SABREWING - also either got frost-heaved or damaged by a burrowing something, and it, too, is putting up a fan from underneath the crown.... so, unless you're certain your plant is dead, I'd leave it there. Give it time. It may recover, even if it doesn't bloom this year. Anyway, long way of saying there are ways to grow southern plants. So don't give up on one hybridizer's intros due to one unfortunate experience. Me? I wait til I've killed something several times, and only then do I give up LOL.

Well after that last frost the other night, it seems that the daylily seed pods that I was hoping to collect some seed from, look wilted ;( But, I'm still happy because a nice generous lady sent me a SASBE of seeds, what a nice surprise when I opened up my package today! Black Eye x Bordello Queen (14) Blueberry Candy (14) Bordello Queen x Dragon So (17) Darla Anita Seedling x Seedling (15) Designer Jeans x Paper Butterfly (4) Fooled Me (3) Grey Witch x Indian Giver (8) Houdini x Russian Rhapsody (2) Indian Giver x Trahlyta (7) Kathleen Mary x Sdlg (3) Mariska x Jamaican Me Crazy (23) Moonlit Masquerade x Cherrystone (10) PirateÂs Patch x Lord Trickster (5) Purple sdlg #1 (rebloomed) (8) Red Volunteer x Spider Man (5) Seedling x Seedling ? (9) Seedlings (9) Spanish Glow x Butterfly Days (2) Spanish Glow x ? (3) Strawberry Candy x Pink Cotton Candy (10) Wine Bandit x Maviska (5) Wine Bandit x Victoria Park (13) Woodside Romance x Janice Brown (13) Sharon