I planted some irises in a different bed last year, and the other day I saw some small round holes in the foliage. Also saw a bug with what looked like wicked pinchers on the plant. I am going to watch these and see if they develop scorch. With the middle leaf affected this way (it is brown when it starts to grow inside the fan - like a gift wrapped up in layers of leaves!) It is like something affects the very center of the plants, right down to the roots but not hurting the rhizome.
What really bothers me is that it might also affect daylilies, which are my second favorite garden addiction. Did I mention that a little green stripey worm ate all of the foliage off of all of my baptisias? New green is starting to appear on the branch tips, though, so they probably didn't kill the plants.
This has been a very strange year weatherwise. I went to Barcelona in mid March when the snow had barely melted, only to find out that the temp here had been 85 for days, warmer than Barcelona! Because of this fast forward on the temp I didn't apply merit to my irises, because I thought it wouldn't be effective. Maybe merit also kills the leaf hoppers or whatevers that spread the disease?
