WOW! You guys are tremendous. I clipped the leaves of the mint to almost nothing and I moved it to a quarantine area. I will treat it with my garlic spray or DE and then wait and see what happens. I am new to Texas but not to container gardening. I am striving to find the balance of how much heat and water a Texas plant can bear. The soil drys out every afternoon but maybe it can go another day before I add more water. Thanks for the sound advice. LC

I have found that what the JB prefer varies from yard to yard, which lends credence to the view they are attracted to stressed plants. Stressed simply means the plant is emitting a chemical signature the beetle homes in on, it doesn't mean a plant has to be at the brink of death. Example: I hear lots of folks say they like the leaves of grape vines. I have a relative who has the largest JB infestation I have ever witnessed. He flicks literally hundreds into a bucket of soapy water daily. It doesn't help that he lives next to a golf course filled with their grubs and his neighbor has one of those yards planted with everything other than grass for them to eat. Anyway, he has 25+ year old grape vines and the JB don't touch them. They do go after his raspberries. Don't touch his tomatos or any old fruit trees, do eat his dahlias. Of course it doesn't really matter whether the JB only go after stressed plants since the JB are going to know which ones those are before we do since we can't smell the chemical signature the plant is giving off ;-)

I agree with Noahedwinbeach. I've grown heavenly blue morning glories in full sun with dramatic results, but the blooms closed up and died very quickly when the sun got too hot. I discovered that if I grew them where there was more shade, then the blooms lasted longer. It's true there won't be as many blooms if they grow in shade, but I'm trying them over my garden gate arbor which gets only some morning sun and late evening sun with indirect light most of the day. I expect to get a respectable showing of bloom that will last for most of the day, if not all of it. If the morning glories do well in this spot, I shall spring for a light colored clematis that will perform in shade. If neither will perform well enough, I will try a photinia for drama.

Roundup works on it only if you can spray the whole plant...which is hard to do when it's intermingled with lawn and around desirable plants. If you just spray the crown, it will only damage the plant; not kill it. (adage applies: what doesn't kill it, makes it stronger.) If you grab all the vines and pull them all into a strip, and spray that strip, making sure every leaf is dripping wet; it works. But who can do all this when you have 50 million of them growing everywhere. I prefer to use Weed-B-Gone, as it works too, but you have to use the same idea. You can't just spray the crown, you have to spray down the vines and all over the leaves. At least weed-b-gone doesn't kill the lawn grass, tho. (ps under no circumstances, let it go to seed. Each seed is incredibly viable. The only redeeming quality the plant has is its cute, little flowers....but you must force yourself to keep them plucked off.)