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Betja said:When my XYLOPHONE JAZZ got a terrible case of rust a couple of years ago and I couldn't get rid of it after several months, I remembered reading in one of the plant descriptions on the Floyd Cove website that Guy Pierce said anytime he sees rust on a plant he immediately cuts it to the ground, so that's what I did -- and it came back beautifully and I've never had rust on it since then, which I consider amazing!

Yes, this works, but I think cutting back is supposed to be done only once.
My plants also had scapes with big seed pods on them and I didn't want to cut those off just yet.

I think if I'd known how to ID rust, leaf streak, and spring sickness earlier, my plants would have been much better off.
Everything I knew about daylilies to this point was how "carefree" they were and my old plants certainly were.