Hi. I'm in Boston MA. I moved my established dayliĺies forward in the same space 2 days ago & it went flat. I was able to shade it most of the day yesterday & luckily it rained last night. She's starting to look better but not like she usually does this time of year. I poured a little liquid fertilizer & water in the new hole but no root stimulates. I think I'll shade it again looks like the sun's trying to come out after an overcast morning. Advice?
Thanks

You damaged all the fine roots when digging and moving the plant. The plant will be fine but it can't support the leaves right now. I recommend that you trim the leaves back to about 6 inches or so. The plant will bounce back quickly. You may have fewer (or even no) blooms this year though.

I agree with Jill.

When I move mature clumps within my yard, I like to keep as much of a dirt clump around the roots as I can. Seems to due less damage to the fine roots. But people clean and trim the roots for shipping all the time. Your plant should be fine.

I want to say Miracle Gro makes a product called Quick Start or something like that for newly moved or plants replanted from a garden center. It's a liquid, if you go looking for it. I've used it and my plants seem to like it when I've stressed them.

And people will argue with this, but I feel if you want to promote root growth, let them dry a little between waterings. Maybe water every 3-4 days, if mother nature doesn't do it in between. My theory is it forces the planr to spend a little more energy regrowing those little roots looking for water. I never water more than once every three days, even for seedlings, shipped plants, and transplants. My record is pretty good.

Ditto, to Tim and Jill. Totally on point.

Any time you move a daylily that is not in dormancy already, you should expect some form of transplant shock. Because they are generally so hardy and practically carefree, we sometimes forget that they can be stressed when we move them.

But I gave extra daylily divisions to one of my nephews and his wife after a garden redesign when I moved an entire daylily bed... thought they would be planted within a day or two. Found out later, they sat in boxes in their garage for nearly the entire summer

When the wife decided where to put them, she said, 'They are probably dead by now...' and my nephew said, 'Nope, I have been watering them now and then.'

They finally planted them into ground (after 2 months) and every single daylily division survived. Unbelievable (and if I did not know my nephew so well, I would not believe it either). Daylilies are tough.

Kind of like the mystery* "dutch" dried out packaged barefoot daylilies in the big box in the Big Box stores.
*sometimes true to name