I bought some perennial hollyhocks from B&Q (pre flood!), and they're now enormous and about ready to flower:D. However, the lowest leaves have started dying off (brown, dry, and on floor) and all the other leaves have browny/ orange blobs underneath them. Whatever it is seems to be spreading from the bottom of the plant, upwards. The worst affected leaves seem to be almost disintegrating around the blobs, and the blobs do not seem to be alive (ie bugs) or anything. Anyone got any ideas or suggestions?:help:

It sounds like Hollyhock rust. This article gives some advice about it:

http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/vista/pdf_pubs/627.pdf

It's all over mine too.

Yep, that's it... Just read that perennial hollyhocks often succumb to this, so maybe I'll try annual ones next year. Thanks!

I havent got hollyhocks, but rust is very common this year due to damp conditions earlier. Its a fungus. My some of my older fuchsias have it. I have sprayed with rose fungus control.