So sorry to hear that Gina, I get it sometimes on some garden plants if we've had several dry, hot spells during the summer. Main thing is to gather up all the affected flowers and foliage and destroy it, try not to touch unaffected plants and don't put affected flowers and foliage on a compost heap, other wise you'll spread it. I must admit I do use a fungicide on the plants and surrounding soil. Kath :)

Just lurking on the fuschia forum...but got the same thing on my plummies. Someone at another plummie site suggest spraying both sides of the leaves with murphy's oil soap (2 T to one gallon) mixed with alcohol (1T)...so far seems to be working! But I'll let you know too!

PS another version was 1T dish liquid, 1 T cooking or mineral oil, 1 T alchol.

Well, my plants are still alive. I bought and used some anti-fungal spray that addressed rust. The plants continued to bloom so I couldn't bring myself to prune yet. Even though the leaves are all - well, rusty! They've finally stopped blooming so I think now will be a good tme to prune them back for the winter (the winter we have here anyway), and then see how they grow back in the spring.