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title: "Hi there. My wife and I bought this gardenia recently. When we first…"
description: "Hi there. My wife and I bought this gardenia recently. When we first brought it home, it was very perky, full, and green with small buds growing. However, over…"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "David Richard"
published: "2025-08-17T01:28:36.636031Z"
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# Hi there. My wife and I bought this gardenia recently. When we first…

_Posted by David Richard on 2025-08-17_

Hi there.

My wife and I bought this gardenia recently. When we first brought it home, it was very perky, full, and green with small buds growing. However, over the past two months it has slowly been wilting and yellowing. It also had a few bugs on it.

Here are a few things we've tried, but no luck:

-We've repotted it (three weeks ago, the roots seemed fine)  
-When we repotted it, we changed the soil (the previous seemed to just allow water to drain really quickly.)  
-We used peppermint spray to kill the pests (we've not seen any for a couple weeks)  
-We've moved it around our living room to give it different levels of light (our windows face are south facing)

Nothing we've done seems to help it. Willing to try anything!

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## 1 comment

### Melody commented on 2025-08-17

Do you know what type of plant it is? I was thinking you could try and move it outside but it may depend on its light needs.

Also pruning off the yellowing/dead leaves could help saving energy for the plant to get better.

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