Just want to add that of the plants seeming to resist the rust outbreak best thus far: Ruffled Ruby.
She is one of the cheap ones I got from Wilds this year. She has bloomed already.
As mentioned before, the 3 Petit plants (new this year) have held up pretty good, but only 1 of them has bloomed.
(1 Petit came in with spring sickness, but is now okay.)
The plants I got directly from Trimmer held up quite awhile, but the Trimmer plants and others bought from the NC farm were ate up with rust.
And the plant I got from Wynn's hasn't exhibited any rust, but didn't have as much exposure given location.
If I had had more experience with "new" daylilies, I would have recognized rust earlier and nipped it in the bud most likely.
I was reading on a daylily Facebook page where someone up North, just getting ready to start selling their daylilies got infected by a plant from a Southern breeder and now couldn't have their daylily sale.
IMO if you are going to sell daylilies, rust is a CRITICAL issue. And that kind of comment of Facebook can affect all Southern growers.
