Cold hardiness & minimum temperature
Is Daylily 'Chorus Line' (Hemerocallis 'Chorus Line')cold hardy? Hardiness zone & min temp
Also called Chorus Line daylily, pink miniature daylily.
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About Daylily 'Chorus Line'
Hemerocallis 'Chorus Line' · also called Chorus Line daylily, pink miniature daylily · flowering
Hemerocallis 'Chorus Line' is an award-winning miniature daylily bearing delicate pink blooms with a deeper rose halo and yellow-green throat in mid-summer. It is a prolific, reblooming cultivar widely used in mass plantings and borders. Toxic to cats — all parts including pollen can cause acute, potentially fatal kidney failure.
Cold limit: USDA 3-9 · RHS H6 (5-35°C)
What daylily 'chorus line''s hardiness rating actually means
Yes — daylily 'chorus line' is genuinely cold hardy. Rated RHS H6 and USDA 3-9, it lives outdoors all year and needs winter cold rather than protection from it. Its RHS rating of H6 means: Hardy throughout the UK and northern Europe. On the US scale that maps to USDA 3-9 — the zones where it can be left outdoors year-round.
New to these scales? The USDA hardiness zone map explained covers how the zone numbers work, and you can find your own zone with the zone finder.
Minimum temperature — and what happens below it
Minimum survivable temperature is roughly about −20 to −15 °C. Daylily 'Chorus Line' is built for winter — once established it takes hard frost and snow in its stride.
Concretely, for daylily 'chorus line' as it gets too cold:
- It tolerates winter lows to about −20 to −15 °C once established.
- Below its rated zone, the visible damage is browned or blackened top growth and, in the worst case, a killed crown or root.
- First-year, newly planted, or container-grown specimens are noticeably less hardy than established garden plants — the roots are exposed.
Can daylily 'chorus line' go outside or overwinter — and where?
- Plant it out within USDA 3-9 and it overwinters with little or no help.
- It does not want to come indoors — a warm winter room actually weakens a hardy plant by denying it dormancy.
- The real risks in its range are waterlogging, wind-rock on young plants, and a late hard frost on new growth — not ordinary winter cold.
Work back from your local frost dates with the frost-date calculator: the last spring frost and first autumn frost are what really decide when daylily 'chorus line' can be outside. US growers can check USDA zones; UK growers should use the RHS hardiness ratings, which match the H6 figure above.
Daylily 'Chorus Line' hardiness — frequently asked questions
Is daylily 'chorus line' cold hardy?
Yes — daylily 'chorus line' is genuinely cold hardy. Rated RHS H6 and USDA 3-9, it lives outdoors all year and needs winter cold rather than protection from it. An outdoor plant. Daylily 'Chorus Line' is hardy across USDA 3-9; it belongs in the ground or a frost-proof container, not on a windowsill, and many types actively need a cold winter to perform.
What is the minimum temperature daylily 'chorus line' can survive?
Minimum survivable temperature is roughly about −20 to −15 °C. Daylily 'Chorus Line' is built for winter — once established it takes hard frost and snow in its stride.
What hardiness zone is daylily 'chorus line'?
Daylily 'Chorus Line' is rated USDA 3-9 and RHS H6 — Hardy throughout the UK and northern Europe.
Can daylily 'chorus line' survive winter outside?
Plant it out within USDA 3-9 and it overwinters with little or no help. It does not want to come indoors — a warm winter room actually weakens a hardy plant by denying it dormancy. The real risks in its range are waterlogging, wind-rock on young plants, and a late hard frost on new growth — not ordinary winter cold.
What happens to daylily 'chorus line' below its minimum temperature?
It tolerates winter lows to about −20 to −15 °C once established. Below its rated zone, the visible damage is browned or blackened top growth and, in the worst case, a killed crown or root. First-year, newly planted, or container-grown specimens are noticeably less hardy than established garden plants — the roots are exposed.
Keep reading
- Daylily 'Chorus Line' care — the full brief (light, water, soil, problems, pet safety)
- USDA hardiness zones — find yours and what grows there
- Is daylily 'chorus line' hardy in the UK? — the RHS-rating version
- RHS hardiness ratings — the UK system explained
- Frost-date calculator — your real outdoor window
- The USDA hardiness zone map, explained
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