Deb I'm so sorry to hear of your daphne woes!
my love affair continues with the little ones; some kind of creep across the dirt but none grow straight down into it and I haven't had any pest or disease... yet
here are some of this year's pics so far of the growing babies--at least the ones that are beyond the little spriglet phase ( I've gotten some new ones too that are still very much in the barely spriglet phase
and they don't look like much)
Blackthorn Triumph
Ernst Hauser
Lawrence Crocker
arbuscula x verlotii
they're all my favorite