Welcome back! I don't have the number of daylilies you have, although I have been growing them for a while. I see spring sickness fairly often, although usually not widespread. It has never amounted to much here, they grow out of it quickly once the weather stops jumping up & down & bloom normally. I guess I've always assumed it was the jumps in the temps that caused it. Anyway, I've never lost a plant from spring sickness, and there have been a few that looked really rough.

Thanks Nancy. We noticed something funny going on in a couple plants a few weeks ago. But since then, we had a landscaping job, that kept us in someone else's garden for two weeks. Then it rained for days straight. Yesterday was the first chance we had to get back out there and inspect things.

Holy cow! The rain sure brought in the weeds. Brecks sent me mislabeled bearded iris, I got to track down. Also found out that a daylily farm sent us spiderwort. And now all the spring sickness. Blah! Hopefully things turn around quickly, I'm ready to see some happy blooms!

Wishing you well April. I am no help and it may be Nancy is right. By the time there is any size to the plant, it usually warms up to hot and stays that way here.

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My wife is on a study group of AHS for spring sickness. Nothing for sure yet but we saw a lot of chewing-like damage on leaves throughout the garden. Some that had it last year have recovered and others that have not had it before had it this year. Entwined In The Vine had it bad last year. This year most of the fans looks good and but some fans still have damages leaves. Many of our daylilies seem like they never have it. Not as part of the research, I am going to treat Entwined with a systemic insecticide. If it has spring sickness next year - oh well. If not then I am very happy that it doesn't. This will prove nothing, however.

April - you must be a very unhappy gardener with all those mistakes.

Dick, I found this to be very informative on the topic of spring sickness. Especially the "whats new" section where they talk about the study groups and their experiments. http://web.ncf.ca/ah748/sstf.html

I also ran across a facebook post from a lady who actually cuts into the crowns and soaks them in Green Magic to rid the plant of it. I don't know if I am brave enough or motivated enough to do all that, but it sounds like it works. perhaps we will try it with one or two that we dont care for so much, just to see. https://www.facebook.com/lynn.treece/posts/1020369664643475

this is the first time we are seeing it in our garden. it's very strange that it is so prominent from last season to now. it didn't come on slowand spread like you would think. almost every single scape/bud we have up right now has an extra twisted leaf attached to it too. im really hoping that this doesn't affect the blooms, as we have gotten soooo many new ones since last year and need to snap our own pics. at first we thought we had too much phosphorous built up, but when I started googling, spring sickness led to an identical match.

as for all of the upsets this year, I guess we can just caulk it up to a learning experience. mislabeled plants, spiderwort mixed in with daylilies. i dont know how we missed that one, they looked like perfectly good, clean, weed free plants when we received them. i know it had to come from where I ordered the daylilies, as i have never seen this weed before, certainly not anywhere on our own property. but these thing happen. its just frustrating that it all has to happen at once...during a really rainy time, that I can't get out there to do anything about it. haha!

April: Sue Bergeron and my wife Pat are good friends. She and Pat have spent a lot of time on studying and publishing on spring sickness. Do you have a picture of the weed?

Seems like you've gotten your share of gardening woes but I'm sure you'll work through it all. Don't get frustrated, just take it one day at a time.

yes dick, here are the pics of it. when it first emerged, it looks identical to daylily foliage. it wasn't until we came back from two weeks away from the gardens and seen that it had started branching out, that we noticed it was off. I just thought it was a mutated/mangled daylily or something, until I posted it elsewhere and was told it was spiderwort. I've lived on this property for over 15 years and have never seen this here. kind of a neat little weed/flower though.