I went out to check the plants this evening, and this is what I found. I think I have rust on my poppies and something is eating my sedum and daylilies!! How do I stop this?
Here's the poppy.
Trouble in my Flower bed!
The sedum
One of my daylilies
Not sure but I think it could be a kind of fungus. I would clean all the leaves and mulch from your beds.
Do you see any critters on any of the plants? My daylilies almost always have a few aphids in early spring. If it's not aphids and you don't see anything else that looks like a tiny bug (aphid), or cottony fluff (mealybugs) on them. and nothing floats away when you tap the plant (whiteflies do this) then it's probably fungal. Don't know how you feel about chemicals, but you can try some home remedies if you want because they won't hurt even if the diagnosis of the problem is wrong. For fungal you can try milk diluted with water or baking soda in water. The milk works well on blackspot, but I don't about other fungal problems it might work on. The baking soda is a sure thing on powdery mildew, but that doesn't look to be your case either. For mealybugs and whiteflies, rubbing alcohol with water and a squirt of liquid soap will work. I think from the way your sedum looks, I'd take a piece of it to a nursery like Cornelius or Calloway's and see if they could identify it and what to treat it with. Whatever it is, you don't want it to spread to other plants. I'm not sure if any of this will help you. I hope someone else chimes in with a more certain identification of your problem.
Crow
Thanks, Crow. There are no aphids, but there are these small round brown-red bugs. You can see one on the daylily leaf above. I have no idea what they are.
I think it's an aphid. Not all of them are white or green. Try spraying with a bit of alcohol mixed with water and a squirt of soap. You can also just use a strong jet of water on them to spray them off.