Last summer, after two months of neglect, I decided to spend some time working in our yard. Had I gone out earlier, I’m sure I wouldn’t have ended up with such a tangled mess. Much to my dismay, in that short period of time, while I was comfortably tucked away in my nice, air conditioned home, nasty leaf-devouring insects found permanent residence in our bushes. By the time I noticed them, many of the once green leaves had turned a soggy brown. Insects had spread from one bush to the next until three out of our six bushes were completely infested. (Read more.)