> Your unidentified tree did not catch hollyhock rust.
Wrong. I can agree to disagree. My whole neighbourhood who are helping me and the experienced gardener/tree surgeon disagree, too.
Rusts ride airborne over short distances, and also on leaves, compost, soil etc from which they jump on contact or over short distances airborne; their spores also jump from soil/compost to leaves short distances over air. Spores rode on the leaves of the plug plants I bought and then jumped to nearby plants airborne, circling out, with the dwarf hollyhocks at the epicentre. The spores jumped airborne over short distances from the hollyhocks to roses, bees' balms, the tree etc. They can ride long distances by air also, but the probability is very small of catching it that way if the neighbourhood is free of rust as mine is. I could have infected the whole neighbourhood had I not acted fast to control it.
Believe that if you will ... you can disagree with the scientific facts if you like ... that doesn't make you right ... in any event you are obviously in no need of our help.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is my last comment here, as I'm concerned that this has diverted too far from the OP's original query, and I don't want him to be worried about his birch tree. If you're worried about it @john.gaskin1, post some photos, and if there's any other info you want to add, that's also helpful. Otherwise, @Liriodendron's original post says it all re birch and how it interacts with other trees - or not
I'm finding it odd that a supposedly 'experienced gardener/tree surgeon' can't ID your tree @Jac19. That would help solve the problem of whether it's birch or not - and they're not exactly difficult to ID. Bit worrying if they're a tree surgeon.....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
> a supposedly 'experienced gardener/tree surgeon' can't ID your tree
I had him over some time ago to give me an estimate to kill an ivy, and I hired him on the day to also prune some branches of the tree. He said these were jobs done towards the end of autumn. On that day he and his wife pulled out some large shrubs I did not want to give me space for my new plants, and they set a date for October for the Ivy and the tree. He will also kill a shrub too close to my window in place that day which I want to use as a structure to send up a jasmine.
The tree branch pruning is at the request of a neighbour due to branches blocking his light. Nothing to do with rust.
I never asked him what kind of tree it was. The question never came up until today.
I agree if the neighbourhood has other trees with rust, then it would be a futile battle.
But in my situation, the neighbourhood has been free of rust. It is a new problem I brought into the neighbourhood. So, I have a chance to control it by acting fast.
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Wrong. I can agree to disagree. My whole neighbourhood who are helping me and the experienced gardener/tree surgeon disagree, too.
Rusts ride airborne over short distances, and also on leaves, compost, soil etc from which they jump on contact or over short distances airborne; their spores also jump from soil/compost to leaves short distances over air. Spores rode on the leaves of the plug plants I bought and then jumped to nearby plants airborne, circling out, with the dwarf hollyhocks at the epicentre. The spores jumped airborne over short distances from the hollyhocks to roses, bees' balms, the tree etc. They can ride long distances by air also, but the probability is very small of catching it that way if the neighbourhood is free of rust as mine is. I could have infected the whole neighbourhood had I not acted fast to control it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm finding it odd that a supposedly 'experienced gardener/tree surgeon' can't ID your tree @Jac19. That would help solve the problem of whether it's birch or not - and they're not exactly difficult to ID. Bit worrying if they're a tree surgeon.....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I had him over some time ago to give me an estimate to kill an ivy, and I hired him on the day to also prune some branches of the tree. He said these were jobs done towards the end of autumn. On that day he and his wife pulled out some large shrubs I did not want to give me space for my new plants, and they set a date for October for the Ivy and the tree. He will also kill a shrub too close to my window in place that day which I want to use as a structure to send up a jasmine.
The tree branch pruning is at the request of a neighbour due to branches blocking his light. Nothing to do with rust.
I never asked him what kind of tree it was. The question never came up until today.
But in my situation, the neighbourhood has been free of rust. It is a new problem I brought into the neighbourhood. So, I have a chance to control it by acting fast.