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spring sickness and daylilies

6/9/2019

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2019 has been a particularly brutal year for Spring Sickness with my daylilies. Every year I get maybe one or two plants that exhibit Spring Sickness, but this year I bet I have between 15-20. I have added five photos of different plants affected by Spring Sickness. I don't panic when I see this because in most cases I can simply remove the affected foliage and as the weather warms up the daylilies continue to grow and bloom completely normal.

The exact cause of Spring Sickness remains a mystery, and it appears in daylilies throughout zones 3-9 in the United States. Typically the entire daylily clump is not affected -- usually it's only a couple of fans. There is not a definitive answer for why this happens. A fungus of some kind is suspected, but as of yet it's unproven. It is also worth noting that daylilies are randomly affected. Just because a cultivar has Spring Sickness one year this does not mean it will be affected next year, or ever again for that matter.

To read more about this phenomenon: http://web.ncf.ca/ah748/qanda.html
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sally
5/1/2020 02:25:16 pm

Wow, this is so interesting. We've had lots of rain this spring and my daylilies were coming up better than ever. They had such vigorous growth. I had to do a double-take right now as I went out to the mailbox in the rain and noticed six groupings of my Mary Todd daylilies have leaves that are twisted and growing sideways. I've never seen this before and I'm an avid gardener. They are now quite deformed looking. Is there anything I can do at this point? Should I let them be or should I cut them back to the ground?
I fertilized the bed in early spring (March) with Espoma Plant Tone so they look healthy but mangled.

Thanks!

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Carole
5/3/2020 08:12:08 am

Hi Sally,
My experience is that you should trim the affected foliage and your daylily will eventually grow 'normal' foliage as the spring and summer progress.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

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