Chinese lantern tips

Sorry, but I can't really help. Ours are in a very dry bed, against a wall and West facing. They grow like mad and spread like mad! We don't feed them and just put a little garden compost down every five years or so - if we remember. The bed they're in is 25ft long and 4ft wide and they're jam packed and try to grow up through the paving alongside.

We have such a large area of them because Mrs Shiney uses them in flower arranging.

So I'm guessing that they prefer dry and poor soil conditions.

 

Oh dear!

That doesn't look like mosaic virus, which is the main disease that affects chinese lanterns, nor wilt which is likely to affect the leaves first.

It's possible that they have been affected by the weather but I've never seen it like that.

A bit late now but I would have picked them when they first coloured up.