I'm at peak bloom right now and see some rebloom already starting to poke up. I started with liquid fertilizer last week and will do it weekly. The rust is ugly here too, but I would only remove foliage on those that have it the worst because the plants need their foliage to continue growing. It is good practice to remove spent blooms & scapes,and to fertilize & treat for rust. Shoot daylilies will rebloom as long as they are fed and watered and kept healthy!

I FINALLY have bloom this year after putting up a ten foot fence around my two biggest gardens! I've tried EVERYTHING, even the sprays but with over 800 different cultivars, spraying was taking way too long and expensive! Some of my flowers, I've had for three years or longer and getting to see them bloom for the first time! It was very depressing for me because the deer problem started in spring 2007 after I lost hundreds of DLs I had in pots over winter of 2006. I feel your pain! Nancy

Rebloomers will send up new scapes not bloom on the old ones. The old scapes will turn brown and die once they are done blooming unless they set a seed pod so if the scape is done blooming it's OK to cut the scape. Linda

There are primarily three ways daylilies increase, non-sexually. 1. Division. Most modern hybrids increase this way. When the fan scapes, the fan divides into two fans. At some point the fans in the middle of the clump will be deprived of sun and nutrients and will die back. At this point, division is necessary for good bloom as only the outside fans will scape. 2. Stoloniferous. This is a modified stem that grows from the crown 1,2 to 12 inches away, slightly under the soil surface and terminates with a new fan. These plants are very easily to separate/divide and grow in loose clumps that don't need dividing as often. 3. Rhizomaceous. This is also a modified stem that grows from the crown slightly under the soil surface. The rhizome will continue to grow for quite a distance. Small nodes on the rhizome produce new fans/plants. These types of daylilies are often called invasive. The H. fulva family are mostly rhizomaceous. Ditch lilies and Kwanso are examples. This type doesn't need division - maybe root barriers. Ed