More rust today, ugh... I'm yanking one of my older (unbloomed) volunteer seedlings (I am waiting for proof-positive pustules to appear on a couple of others), and will probably get rid of at least two of the newer cultivars, at a minimum. (I
should be getting rid of at least five... but I haven't seen bloom on two of these, and I like the third.
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I'm also probably going to have to cut the foliage on 'Polly Wolly Doodle' (which first got rust last year), and maybe also on the (cheek-by-jowl and probably will catch it) 'Hip to Be Square'. I hate to cut H2BS this close to bloom season, though - I make a LOT of crosses on that plant. (Yes, it does have resistance...)
One of my (older, unbloomed) seedlings has sketchy looking foliage, but as a part of that, there are some spotty (paler foliage) areas with a dark green center. Someone refresh my memory, because my brain is trying to tell me that indicates rust resistance... That can't possibly be right, can it?
