I had a pulmonaria ('blue ensign') delivered last week from a mail
order supplier in a batch of other perennials. The leaves have some
sort of rusty thing going on around their edges. Will the plant recover
from this, or should I ask them to send me another one.

Ask them to send you another one and plant both ;-))

Mike

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"Martin Pentreath" wrote in message
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I had a pulmonaria ('blue ensign') delivered last week from a mail
order supplier in a batch of other perennials. The leaves have some
sort of rusty thing going on around their edges. Will the plant recover
from this, or should I ask them to send me another one.

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Janet Baraclough writes:
| The message .com
| from "Martin Pentreath" contains these words:
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| I had a pulmonaria ('blue ensign') delivered last week from a mail
| order supplier in a batch of other perennials. The leaves have some
| sort of rusty thing going on around their edges. Will the plant recover
| from this, or should I ask them to send me another one.
|
| This is getting late in the year for pulmonarias, they are
| early-spring plants. Their leaves often go rusty as they age. The next
| year, the new leaves will be normal and healthy at first..then go rusty
| all over again.

And a HUGE number of plants get various rusts, which are typically spread
by the wind and thrive in warm, damp conditions - and sometimes in dry
ones, depending on the rust! Rust is a fact of life ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Martin Pentreath" wrote in message
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I had a pulmonaria ('blue ensign') delivered last week from a mail
order supplier in a batch of other perennials. The leaves have some
sort of rusty thing going on around their edges. Will the plant recover
from this, or should I ask them to send me another one.


Apart from rust mine eventually succumb to powdery mildew at which stage I
chop the lot down and usually end up with nice new decorative leaves quite
quickly.