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I'm sure I'm tempting fate here, so this is a somewhat whispered blog... but my hollyhocks don't have rust.I planted my hollyhocks about eight or ten years ago; some are now nearly as tall as me, but most of them are just half my height. As yet

Fungal rusts have been pretty prolific this year, which is not surprising, as they thrive in damp and muggy conditions.The film of moisture left on foliage after rainfall provides the perfect conditions for rust spores to germinate. Infections

agreed though, that this was not something we could envisage us doing ourselves. I suppose the time and effort put to wrapping up trees would at least partly be compensated for by the fact that fungal infections such as blackspot, mildew and rust wouldn