Karen, I saw a post on a garden group on FB that you should plant 4 O'Clocks near plants that attract Japanese beetles. Supposedly the beetles will migrate to the 4 O'Clocks and it poisons them. Did a Google search after I read that and there were several articles on the same thing. I don't have anything in CO that attracts them or they just aren't many in CO because I've never had an issue but I like them anyway so I'll definitely try it in AL.