Getting rid of your hawthorne probably won't help since apple is an alternate host for cedar/apple rust and there are plenty of crabapples in Pok. Suggest spraying with a fungicide as a better route. Adams has some cheap pump-up sprayers and either mancozeb or something like that will do the trick. Bayer also offers a pretty good garden fungicide which I think Adams also has (I don't own stock in Adams, worse luck). Fungucides are relatively low in toxicity, not like insecticides.

oldroser,

The threat is really to the hawthorn tree, not the junipers, as the hawthorn could be repeatedly defoliated. I was out after our rain and there were numerous orange extrusions on the junipers, and we have eight of them. I had previously, on two occassions gone out and cut out the galls, so these extrusions were what I missed. The hawthorne will have to be sprayed three to four times each season, and I'll also have to spray the juniper in the fall. Since there are wild cedars behind our property, they could also be contributing. The rust ruins the fruit as well on the hawthorn which was a big reason we picked it. I wanted something different, but also something good for wildlife. How good is it if I'm spraying fungicides all the time? Also, we're still on a well as are our neighbors.

This dilemma is really frustrating. To kill a tree or use chemicals which I hate on a demanding and regular schedule forever! Ugh. I can't believe what I've done to myself. Not to mention the poor innocent tree.