Screw the Blight! Bring on the WTF!

Well, turns out I don't have to worry about blight, because Scruffy developed a case of WTF.  Allow me to show you how it progressed over the last six hours.

In the morning:

First, one of Scruffy's branches began to wilt.  There also appeared a couple of faded, yellowish green spots.  I know it looks like it has powdery mildew, but that is just an effect of the camera.  Not a special effect at all.

Two hours later:

Within a couple of hours, Scruffy looked more like this.  Why, Scruffy?  Why?

At this time, Scruffy also developed a rather sickly hue.  It was something of a brownish undertone.  Definitely not healthy looking.

Six hours after discovering the first wilted leaves:

As you can see, the WTF virus has pretty much obliterated Scruffy's will to live.  Poor Scruffy!

May you rest in peace, Scruffy.

So I have pretty much no educated suggestions regarding what in the world happened, but I do have an ignorant theory.  I bought this plant at Lowe's.  The plant had been thoroughly watered--and I mean thoroughly!  To put it mildly, it was drenched.  So I'm starting to wonder if Scruffy was in the early stages of Root Rot before I even put him in the ground.  He only survived in my plant bed five days!

Moving on to other things, there has been another tragedy in our garden.  While playing ball in the backyard, my two year old daughter accidentally deflected a bounce right onto Squishy!  I planted five Squishies, so I think we are still in business... but I don't think this one will make it.

Suddenly the name Squishy seems that much more appropriate...

But, to end on a more positive note, Climby and Desmond are still pretty happy.  I haven't been too sure about McCrunchy from day one, but they aren't dead yet, so hopefully this means good things and not bad things.

Apparently my camera thought dirt was more interesting than Desmond.

The end.