Gorgeous! I’m definitely planting some at my new place. I’ve gone too many years without them, because my last house felt too temporary to plant something that takes a few years to really get going.

I’m an obsessed landscape gardener with perennials, shrubs and a few annuals making up my flowerbeds. I garden for pollinators and birds, mostly, with a few purely ornamental things I can’t give up (roses, clematis). I grow a few edibles every year (tomatoes, some greens, and cucumbers, usually), but it’s not my focus. It always took me by surprise in r/gardening that the default seemed to be vegetables in mist people’s minds. :)

The first, and easiest, step you can try is to just blast them off with the hose. Ideally, you will create an environment that is balanced, and birds and beneficials will keep your pests in check, but that takes time.