What the heck is this?

[LucyGoose]

A lot of my daylily's have this, but I was told that the brown thingy on the first picture is aphids.....Am I to spray anything? Seems like it don't bother them, they are blooming away.....But on the other pictures, what is that? Poor drainage? Not enough water? I have been watering in the evening....We had that terrible heat, and are to get it again early next week....

Thanks!!

[JaneG]

I've got some icky foliage too. It seems like certain ones get a lot of dying foliage every year. Others stay nice and green. Not sure if it's the plant or some kind of problem I can cure. Hopefully I'll learn something from your post here.

[wishiwere]

Ditto on those thoughts. Do they pull off easy?

I had some one year that did, but didn't do anything but cut off the uglies. Hope it's nothing serious, cause I've never treated it either.