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" <martin_pentreath [at] hotmail.com> 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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In article <31303030393032394479E91502 [at] zetnet.co.uk>,
Janet Baraclough <janet.and.john [at] zetnet.co.uk> writes:
|> The message <1148834072.586996.218890 [at] j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
|> from "Martin Pentreath" <martin_pentreath [at] hotmail.com> contains these words:
|>
|> > 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" <martin_pentreath [at] hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1148834072.586996.218890 [at] j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>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.