I'm not saying the plants arrived with rust. They may have gotten rust after they got here, since I don't spray anything and I am sure they do (like almost all commerical growers in the South). Rust is endemic here. I was making the point that the cultivars I ordered from them were susceptible.
With that said, Thelma Louise is on my want list since it is a child plant of JT Davis, which has been very rust-resistant here.