RE: Rust on hollyhocks
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Rust on hollyhocks
- From: S* S*
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:35:48 -0700
Yes, roses get rust, but I'm not sure it's the same actual type that
hollyhocks get.
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: English family [c*@globalnet.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 6:14 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Rust on hollyhocks
>
>
>
> >Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:04:05 +0100
> >From: KAREN_STEWART@HP-UnitedKingdom-om9.om.hp.com
> >Subject: Rust on Hollyhocks
> >
> > Doreene,
> >
> > The bad news with rust on hollyhocks is that once they
> have it, it
> > won't go away. I pulled up all my rusty hollyhock & am
> replanting
> > from seed collected from the old plants & hope that hat
> will break the
> > cycle. I was told that most volume nursery purchases
> will have been
> > exposed to rust, especially if they have been
> propogated from other
> > than seeds to ensure the colour and form stay true.
> That statement
> > may cause a furore from nurserymen, but I got my
> original plants from
> > a chain homestore & soon they were covered in it. The
> good news is
> > that so far, it hasn't spread to anything else,
> although a mallow on
> > the otherside of the garden is infected, but I think
> they are from the
> > same family so it may have the same succeptability.
> >
> > I planted tall campanulas near them to cover up the bare bits.
> >
> > Karen in Cheshire
> >
>
>
> Can roses get rust? I seem to remember reading this about 12
> years ago.
> At the time I'd planted a few precious roses (which I think
> got rust on
> them, hazy memory), I had rust on my hollyhocks - spraying
> did help but I
> didn't want to use too many chemicals so I got rid of the
> hollyhocks. I
> haven't had rust on the roses since then. Last year I grew some more
> hollyhocks from seed and they were soon covered in rust. The
> roses weren't
> affected this time, but a mallow did get it. Does anyone else know if
> roses can get rust?
>
> Louise English, southern England
>
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