based on the pic provided... i would guess.. its dead .. try the scratch test ... ken

Shasta daisy (many and various varieties) has never liked any of my Michigan gardens either. Until the last few years I have considered them short-lived perennials, if not outright annuals. I believe that it is a drainage issue rather than a cold problem. In my current garden (15 years old) which has the worst clay I have ever seen (I hesitate to use the word soil for what I plant in - despite constant amending) I have found at least a partial solution. Use a sturdy shasta like Becky, in a high part of the yard, preferably near a house wall under the eaves, away from the drainage flows, or between the house and a concrete walk, raise the planting as high as possible, add gravel to the bottom of the planting hole, and in the amended planting clay itself, thinning it well -- and they grow and return and SPREAD (a bit outwards anyway). It's a miracle!

I got two seedlings of Rose of Sharon last year. They also still look dead, but the sticks that are left after winter, 2 inches or so, are still green. I removed one of them from the place I had it, since it looked so bad, and transplanted it to a pot. Now I see new root growth. My problem/question is; it is a seedling, can it sprout from the ground? I think it look like there are no nodes left on the stick that leafes can grow from...What are the chances that my ROS`es are still alive??

I just found this note I'd written myself on my wisteria that might be helpful? (I also had a note that wisteria has very specific pruning requirements which is somehting I'm not used to having to do....prune on a specific schedule....) Anyway here's a note on pruning that I DID do. Note I haven't touched the plant since: "Late October 2012 due to a strong hurricane I had to take all plants indoors and so I had no choice but to cut back all my wisteria stems (so I could remove the plant from the trellis it was clinging to) to just above the fifth bud (though at the time there were no actual âÂÂbudsâ or leavesâ¦but I just felt along at what felt like a hard, slightly protruding leaf âÂÂjointâÂÂ, and so I cut the stem after 5-6 of those joints." Also a note on my clematis which I mention in my original post. I believe it's considered a 'group 3' clematis. It's Gardini Moonfleet Clematis. Tx!!