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Its another. Right? If its not enough water, its too much - or bugs. My ageratum was just beautiful along my patio. Thick and lush. They looked so great next to my yellow mums. Now they are suddenly turning brown and are dying. They have been watered and sprayed with "38" a product from a local nursery. I give up!

Ageretum is such a pretty plant. Do you think if you cut them back they might perk up?

Don't you just hate it when you baby something along and do everything you're supposed to but it still doesn't do well.

One year my geraniums along my walkway started turning yellow & come to find out ~~ the dog (we had at the time) was raising his leg there! Feel for ya! Annuals are getting very cheap now if you need to do an emergency makeover in prominent yard spot. :>(

I'm right there with ya!... the two little gal grandies wanted to plant moonflowers ....so we did the whole deal, get soil, a pot, dig holes, plant seeds...they were just so proud!!... and the plants took off!!!... a day or so ago, I planted them... had to be careful, cuz they don't like to be transplanted.... but I did good and they didn't even get shocky..... woke up today to find them munched off.... WAAAAAAAA!!!.... now what do I tell the kids???...
I feel bad for us both.....sniff.....

Toots, time to hit the shopping trail and get something else to fill the spot. Feel for you, the deer just had a quick snack on some new daylilies last week. We spray all the time but somehow they found the one that DH was waiting to see!

I should add ageratum to my list of things I cannot grow. Mine starts out just as you described, and before you know it, it's yucky yellow and turning brown. I no longer buy it.

Toots, bummer about the moonflowers. Painful gardening lesson for the little grandies - with gardening you win some, you lose some.

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feel your pain. DH took of one of my daylilies to about 2 inches above the ground. I originally blamed the deer and wandered why they left the other 2 that were there alone. DH feesed up to running it over with the lawnmower.

Bummer about the ageratum...I found that if I snip it back, it'll come around again...

Same with your moonflowers, Toots, what a bummer, & you did so well with the transplanting.

My DH decided one year to use weed b gone & he sprayed my hydrangeas...he waited til he was done with the lawn before he told me. I was lucky, tho, I ran out & hosed it off & it didn't suffer any damange...but I was mad & scared...sometimes those DH's, huh?

LOL so right, one thing or another. For me it's marmots, chipmunks, and deer, and of course always the weather.

Sorry about your ageratum, SoonerDee, and your Grands' moonflowers, Toots. Just the realities of life I guess, very little is perfect. All we can do is try our best and be thankful if it works out most of the time.

Rabbits,Moth pillars, chipmunks, slugs, lack of rain.....grasshoppers...what next here?!?!?

I know the water bill....

Ain't that the truth!! It was 106 here in my town today. That is TOO danged hot.

We have swapped temps with some of ya'al this year. We are staying a bit under 100 until this weekend...then it hits us!
We did get a little rain out of Debby so no watering for a few days anyway.

Yippee! I need to do a rain dance or something...my poor empty rain barrels sit forlorn. I have to think on the lady I spoke with who has 12 and nice pumping system.

Glad you got a taste of Debby and not a lengthy visit....LOL that town that got 24 inches with nowhere to go in Florida. Jim Cantore has been camping out there and I just envision self scooping up some of that water to redistribute here.... Gee we have a 30% chance this weekend.....grumble grumble as Alice hauls out her sprinkler yet again. At least my mostly clover backyard is green....