A wet Puget Sound week is not one shrub diagnosis
After a Puget Sound rain week, rhododendrons and cedars in Bremerton fail for different moisture reasons, not one spray. The rhody can be a drainage bowl. The cedar can be root rot from a downspout. The hydrangea on the porch can simply be a drip line that never opened. Sunrise Pest & Turf Management has served Western Washington since 1978. We keep plant-level notes after wet weather because a yard-wide label misses the specimen that still has a chance.
Moss, slugs, and scale all show up in the same week here. They are not the same job. Photograph the worst plant and a healthy neighbor of the same kind. Note whether the bed sits under cedar drip, against a north wall, or in a bowl that holds water for two days after rain.
What we record on the visit
Species, tissue, insects or the lack of them, and timing. Sticky residue is a honeydew story. Brown interior on a cedar after a saturated week can be root oxygen, not a needle cast you treat from the driveway. Construction soil piled on trunks is mechanical. Vacant weeks then a flood of irrigation is drought followed by drowning.
We will split feeding, insect work, and replacement. Lawn fertilizer on the same visit should not be assumed to cover ornamentals. If last week's landscaper sheared a hedge before guests, that dieback is a trim, not a pathogen.
Rain, moss, and the next dry pocket
Western Washington does not stay wet in a straight line. A dry pocket after a front can crisp a shallow-rooted shrub that was drowning three days earlier. Tell us both dates. Closeout should list which plants were treated, which were diagnosed only, and which are replacements. Contact us with city, two plant photos, and whether the house sat empty. Bremerton and Seattle share marine air. Your rhody bowl is still one plant.
Moss on the north bed is not a reason to spray the sunny cedar. Slugs on hostas are not scale on a rhody. If last week's landscaper sheared before guests, that dieback is a trim. We will not tank-mix the whole Kitsap bed because two plants looked tired on the same Tuesday.
Scale on a rhody is not slugs on hostas. A downspout drowning a cedar is not a porch hydrangea that missed drip. Bremerton and Seattle share rain. Your bowl is still one plant. Keep it that way on the ticket.