K, so here's the deal. I bought this huge Mandevilla from my local HD a few months ago. Looked simply beautiful. I planted it in a back corner and after a while, noticed that all of the lower leaves were dropping off. Then I read on here that they will do that if they're roots are too wet, and I also later found out this area is where all of the water from our street runs to drain so it stays wet. So last night I created a spot to move it to and did so.
However, while doing this, I was able to get much closer to the plant than I was regularly while it was in the prior flowerbed and I noticed lots of black spotting on the leaves. I also noticed what appeared to be large white aphids (yes, we halso had an ant problem in that bed that we seemed to never be able to eradicate - sp?). So I whipped up some Neem and drenched the plant 20 minutes ago, all sides. Will this work? Is my plant a gonner? I'm attaching a lot of pics, please help, I'm a newbie. Thanks!!
This is a closeup of one of the leaves to show the brown/black spots.
