There is an important distinction that needs to be made here. OrTHENE and OrthoNEX are NOT the same pesticide. They are the same to the extent that both employ the active ingredient ACEPHATE. But OrthoNEX is a mixture of Acephate with the fungicide that is sold as FUNGINEX. The warning on the Funginex bottle warns against getting even the smallest amount of this product in your eyes...it can cause blindness. You should not inhale this product either. Orthonex is the product that used to be (and probably still is) sold as ROSEPRIDE, and is used to prevent blackspot in roses. These chemicals are not "nothing". They have an impact on the environment every time you use them, whether you see it or not. If you are using Orthinex and you don;t really need to be preventing fungal disease, you are using a doubly environmentally unfriendly gaent unnecessarily. I stopped using all forms of chemical pesticide and herbicide (like Round Up) when I began to notice physical abnormalities in the local population of native green treefrogs on my property. I live on 5 acres of land and have pretty extensive ornamental plantings, as well as a population of frogs that probably numbers in the tens of thousands (our property backs up to a Nature Preserve and a natural wetland). We noted that the new generations of baby treefrogs were hatching out on our property with deformities, mainly missing eyes and deformed heads, and some with missing limbs, when we were using Cygon 2E to control black pepper scale on bromeliads and Orthene to control magnolia scale on palms. The treefrogs were using our bromeliads as incubators for their eggs and tadpoles. We stopped using it and within 2 generations we stopped seeing these genetic abnormalities in our frogs. This was a very scary wakeup call to me, especially as we have a well for our water. THINK before you spray.

Hard to say since lots of things can damage leaves: my purple coneflower had some leaf damage from sap-sucking insects that produced curled leaves, but it has grown past the damage now and looks normal after I nuked the bugs. I wonder if it could be something related to aster yellows since that can do freaky things to coneflowers and other plants... Good idea on not buying the messed-up flowers.

Tree frogs - at least the ones around Missouri, we have green and gray ones - are way too small to have much edible leg meat! Not that I'd recommend that anyway. Just saying. I do love critters but they can get to be a pain and you start wishing you had some way to have fewer of them without murdering them all. Squirrels that eat the bird food, woodpeckers that attack the house, possums that burrow under the porch, etc. It's kind of like, as Tom Lehrer (the humorist and songwriter) said, being a Christian Scientist with appendicitis. :-D

This poor thing looked like there was another frog growing under his shoulder. It didn't stop him chasing after the Laydeez though ! Dave Image link: