WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:07.120 It's not a fig leaf of your imagination. It's time for the Gardening Simplified 2 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:12.119 Show with Stacy Hervella, me, Rick Weissed, and our engineer and producer. 3 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:17.000 How is it you do that, Stacy? Adrianna Robinson all right, 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:24.679 I wore my mister Rogers sweater today because we're gonna talk about neighborly front landscapes, 5 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.640 a topic I like to talk about. I love talking about neighbors, 6 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:32.920 although I have to confess my back landscape is more neighborly than my front landscape. 7 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:37.159 Ah, and we're going to get into that and why and what you 8 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:42.399 can do now. I posted a humorous social media picture where a couple of 9 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:46.759 neighbors were having a feud over a fence. It was good natured. It 10 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:51.880 wasn't the Hatfields and the McCoy's, but I had a landscaper friend who posted 11 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:56.679 on that post. I have often wondered if the newer homes with smaller front 12 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:02.119 porches or none at all, has caused neighbor not to have interaction with each 13 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:06.560 other. If you know your neighbors better, maybe you can work differences out 14 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:10.719 with more maturity. We have a bench in our front landscape next to the 15 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:15.480 sidewalk, and my husband and I have met more neighbors because of that. 16 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:18.599 Oh that's nice. I kind of like that. I really do. And 17 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:23.200 if you think about it, there's a lot of talk about back decks and 18 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:29.799 landscaping the back deck, but socializing on the back deck is for socializing with 19 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:36.480 people you already know. Socializing with people on the front porch are people that 20 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:40.840 you don't know. And what can you do with your landscape to help draw 21 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:45.799 people up the walk and make some new friends, have interesting plants that they 22 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:48.640 want to know what they are. I knew you'd come through for me, 23 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:53.480 Stacy exactly. Gardening connects us as people and neighbors. I always say, 24 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.599 if you don't grow vegetables, it pays to complement the ones in your neighbor's 25 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:04.519 yard. Indeed, so the convenience of texting and emails and popularity of social 26 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.840 media networks has limited our face to face visits. You know, I remember 27 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:14.199 when I was a kid, in order to socialize with people, we went 28 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.560 out in the front yard. Even when my kids were small, after work 29 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:22.159 at night, we went out in the front yard to meet and greet with 30 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.199 people and to socialize with people. Now, if somebody knocks on the front 31 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.400 door, You're almost startled, thinking, what's wrong? Oh, absolutely, 32 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:32.080 you know, it's like getting a phone call. It's like getting a phone 33 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:37.960 call. What's wrong? So I was reading this study fewer than half of 34 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:45.000 American adults know most or all of their neighbors. Survey respondents. Let's see, 35 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.439 nineteen percent of adults said they knew all of their neighbors. So nineteen 36 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.120 percent. That's wild. That is wild. And we're gonna put that study 37 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:59.479 at Gardening Simplified OnAir dot com. You can take a look at that. 38 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:05.000 But what do we do to I don't know, create a front landscape that 39 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:09.599 instead of just having curb appeal and a beautiful garden, which is great, 40 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:16.280 what can we do with our front landscapes to inspire and make us approachable. 41 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:21.759 I mean, when we set up a social media page, we don't put 42 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.680 a lousy picture of ourselves on it or you know, right, we try, 43 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:30.360 Julie, I don't know, put ourselves out there in the best possible 44 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:34.280 light. And so it could be argued that, you know, we should 45 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:38.000 do that with our landscapes and our gardens to and our front porches, and 46 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:43.000 it allows us to socialize you know, people will do that with their dogs. 47 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.240 They'll take their dog for a walk on their leash, and there's nothing 48 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:51.199 better because strangers will walk up to you and start a conversation. Yeah, 49 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.680 can I put your dog? What kind of dog is that? What's your 50 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:55.479 dog's name, what do you feed your dog? Where'd you come from? 51 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:00.039 And pretty soon you're best of friends. Exactly, say happens to me at 52 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:04.080 my house. I'll have people stop by, ring the doorbell and say, 53 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:08.840 what is that plant? Or what is that plant? Or how did you 54 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:12.240 get that to grow? I'm pretty soon, you know, being the can 55 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:16.959 a king, I'm sharing cana rhizomes with neighbors. You're sharing zucchini and tomatoes. 56 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.480 You're digging up and dividing the hostas and sharing them. And I just 57 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:27.000 think that gardening is a great way to make new friends and social life. 58 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.120 It's true. I do have to warn anybody who might walk by my house. 59 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.079 If you compliment a plant, I probably will offer you some. I 60 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:35.839 like. You know, if my neighbor say, oh, that's such a 61 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.800 beautiful plant, what is it, I'll say, well, it's blah blah 62 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:42.000 blah. Would you like some? Because most of the plants that you know, 63 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.319 they're complimenting, are large enough or vigorous enough that I can divide them 64 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:48.439 and you know, and spread the left, so's it could be a double 65 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:53.079 edged swords all I'm saying, it's great, and you know, unfortunately, 66 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:58.720 sometimes there's some border wars. Sometimes there's some disagreements among neighbors, and when 67 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.519 it comes to the garden. Also, the picture that I had posted in 68 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:06.480 social media was a neighbor who was unhappy with another neighbor because he thought he 69 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:11.360 should paint his fence. It was time to paint the fence. So that 70 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:15.199 neighbor went outside with a paintbrush and wrote these words on the fence. Hey 71 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:21.600 Bob, look, I painted my fence. I think that was in good 72 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:28.199 humor. But so I had to write a limb a rick on this topic. 73 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:32.959 It's a two paragraph limerick. Here it is, I plant to produce 74 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:39.240 inspiration. The vines crossed the line with migration. I do this for my 75 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:45.199 neighbor, this sweat and toil and labor. This dispute may require arbitration. 76 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:50.120 I have this one soul consolation when we settle with litigation, my settlement from 77 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:56.600 the court order. When my trumpet vine crossed the border is I'll buy more 78 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:00.879 plants with the compensation. I like it. That's a very timely one because 79 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.240 I killed a tree in my yard deliberately, was just ignoring maple, and 80 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:08.040 we wanted to have it for birds. And my neighbor was asking what we 81 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.040 were going to do with it, and I said I wanted to plant a 82 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.279 trumpet vine on it, because she and I both garden and do a lot 83 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:17.000 for the hummingbirds. And you should have seen the look that came on her 84 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.680 face when I really said trumpet vine. She said, oh, those are 85 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:26.120 pretty aggressive, aren't they. And I said yes, And I'm like, 86 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:29.680 well, I guess I'm not planting a trumpet fine, I want to stay 87 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.920 good friends with my neighbors. I like that. Well, maybe plants some 88 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:38.240 vegetables. There's talk, of course planting vegetables in the front yard, or 89 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:43.480 at least some vegetables because of the social connection at causes. And I was 90 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:49.040 reading community gardeners consume fruits and vegetables five points seven times per day, compared 91 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:56.720 with home gardeners four point six times per day and non gardeners three point nine 92 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:02.680 times a day. So it pays to grow vegetables and no neighbors who grow 93 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:08.000 vegetables. So whatever your homestyle, cottage, colonial, ranch, art deco, 94 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:13.399 bungalow. There's a great article in Fine Gardening Fine Gardening dot com. 95 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:19.319 We're gonna post that link at our website where they talk about making the landscape 96 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:25.279 inviting and one of the things they recommend doing is planting plants that don't require 97 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:29.879 a lot of maintenance or deadheading, or maybe put on a good show all 98 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:33.360 season long. You know, Stacy, I was thinking about panicled hydranges versus 99 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:38.680 plants let's say, like creeping flocks, which is in bloom only one week 100 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.040 out of the year, or last week we talked about mock orange. So 101 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:46.920 if you can find plants that don't require a lot of deadheading and look beautiful 102 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.879 throughout the most of the season, those are probably good options for that front 103 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:57.000 landscape. Yeah, anything I think that is eye catching and memorable. I 104 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:00.199 met a new neighbor not directly on my block a few weeks ago, and 105 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.040 my direct neighbors are trying to explain to them where I lived, and they 106 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.480 said, oh, she's the one with the elephant ear on her front porch. 107 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:07.920 And then he said, oh, yeah, no, I know who 108 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.519 you are. Yeah, and I'm the one with the Canucks in the front 109 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.399 yard. You know, I have a trick. The tricky thing about my 110 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.879 front yard is it's half shade and half sun. So the left half is 111 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.759 real shady and then the right half is sunny. And it's hard. It's 112 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.920 hard to find symmetry. My house is very symmetrical. But you know, 113 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:28.079 I'm working on it. Neighbors, I'm working on the front yard. Well, 114 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:31.439 we'll get there. Well, when people get together, you know, 115 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.159 they talk about whether or we talked about, you know, pets. The 116 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.879 same applies to your landscape, and odds are they're going to ask what those 117 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:45.240 plants are or how they can get those plants. But if you put structures 118 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:50.399 in the front landscape also they should compliment, not compete with the architecture of 119 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.200 your house, like a brick mailbox, post and pass if you have a 120 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.480 colonial home or a white picket fence, if you have a cozy cottage or 121 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:03.159 a Cape Cod home. And of course with a cottage type look, Stacy, 122 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.320 I know you like this look. It can just boast a profusion of 123 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:11.039 plants. Yeah, a little bit of fence like that, even if it's 124 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.240 not actually serving the purpose of fencing anything in just to bring some structure to 125 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:18.320 your yard. It's effective with almost any style of home. It really really, 126 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:22.320 I think looks really nice. So plant up that front landscape, think 127 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:28.240 about that front porch with potted containers and hanging baskets to make your home welcoming. 128 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:33.440 Think about some lemon trees and large pots, or a bird bath and 129 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:39.000 some pretty flowers so that you make some new friends and know your neighbors. 130 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:43.759 And think about the path also on the way to the door, and plants 131 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:48.360 that border that path. In future shows we'll talk about borders. I'm thinking 132 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.679 like lavender would be a great plant to border or walk. Yeah, you 133 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.360 know, I think a lot about We don't have plants right now that border 134 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:56.559 our front walk, but we think a lot about it. Why because we 135 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.679 have to put a lot of snow there, so that is our number one 136 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.240 can say, I would love to have a very welcoming little walk, and 137 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.039 I will one day. But I'm thinking herbaceous perennials so I don't have to 138 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.639 worry about that snow load. That's a great point, all right, So 139 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.519 let's be neighborly. Like I say, I broke out my mister Rogers sweater 140 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:16.159 today. This thing is I think forty years old. People pick on me 141 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:20.919 about it, but I love this sweater, mister Rogers Neighborhood. I enjoy 142 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.879 wearing it and that's why I broke the sweater out today. All right, 143 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:30.559 Coming up next, plants on trial. Don't miss it. More neighborly plants. 144 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.600 You know it? All right? Good, that's coming up next here 145 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:43.200 on the Gardening Simplified Ship, Proven Winners Colored Choice Shrubs cares about your success 146 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.519 in the garden. That's why we trial and test all of our shrubs for 147 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:50.320 eight to ten years, making sure they outperform everything else on the market. 148 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:58.039 Look for them in the distinctive white container at your local garden center. Greetings, 149 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:01.120 gardeners, and welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show. It's the time 150 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:03.679 of the show where we put a plant on trial, which is to say, 151 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:07.039 we're going to tell you about one of the three and twenty plus proven 152 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.559 Winners Color Choice shrubs and you get to decide if it's going to earn a 153 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.960 spot in your garden. And it is indeed a neighborly plant. But just 154 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.399 at the tail end of our discussion on being neighborly and having conversation points in 155 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.399 your yard. I did want to add this kind of relatively new phenomenon of 156 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:28.879 signage about if you are like a monarch Way station, people are putting up 157 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.879 signs to say, you know, please pardon the lawn, we're feeding the 158 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:37.519 bees, they have certified wildlife habitats, and all these signs are intended to 159 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.960 really focus a discussion, especially if you're gardening maybe out of the mainstream, 160 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:43.759 maybe your yard looks a little bit more wild and people are wondering like, 161 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.600 Hey, what the heck is going on over there? Did they just give 162 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:50.159 up? Or is this for purpose? And I think if those are really 163 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:56.600 great ways to bring people into the fold and help them learn about what you're 164 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.240 doing and why and understand that, you know, maybe the old way days 165 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:03.440 of the perfectly green, manicured lawn edges, you can set your watch to 166 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.960 all of that. Maybe there's a happy medium there. I think it's a 167 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.919 great point and it would start a conversation. Yeah, exactly, it's beautiful. 168 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:16.600 Certainly, lots of opportunities to find more information about monarch waystations and certified 169 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:20.480 wildlife habitats online if you are so interested, but without further Ado, let's 170 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:26.000 get to today's plant on trial, which is a plant that my neighbors and 171 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:30.840 I are equally enjoying, as you described in your limerick, but hopefully I 172 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:35.720 think I think they're happy about it. And it is sweet summer love clematis. 173 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.200 Yes, love it. Have you grown this one? Love it? 174 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.559 I have it. It's growing. I call it, please don't take a 175 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.200 fence, but I call it my chain link fence plant. As it grows 176 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.919 great on a chain link fence. It does grow great on a chain link 177 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.679 fence. Now mine actually grows through a shadow box fence. So my neighbor's 178 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:56.519 fence is a shadow box style, which is a wood fence where the slats 179 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:00.279 are kind of staggered, so there's space in between. And I this is 180 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.159 a vine and it so it's a clematis. It has small flowers. It's 181 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:09.639 blooming now basically starts in mid to late summer, and it is similar that. 182 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:13.679 The easiest way to think about it is that it is a sweet autumn 183 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.320 clematis. That's colorful. But now I hope I'm not losing anyone because a 184 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:18.879 lot of people out there are going to hear sweet autumn clematis and think, 185 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.440 well, turn and turn in the channel. Now, don't talk to me 186 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:28.399 about that. You know, very vigorous, possibly obnoxious, but very easy 187 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:33.480 to grow clematis. Now, this one is not nearly as aggressive as that 188 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.600 one. It doesn't seed. It is some different species. But we use 189 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:43.159 that analogy of it being a colorful, sweet autumn clematis because of the bloom 190 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.279 time. You know, so people most people think of clematis is blooming sort 191 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.759 of more spring or early summer. This is a late summer bloomer like sweet 192 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:54.919 autumn. It is fragrant like sweet autumn. It has the most delicious cheer. 193 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.000 I describe it as a cherry vanilla scent. I don't know what you 194 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.679 think. It has like a van like cherry, like artificial cherry kind of 195 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.200 smell, but in a good way. And so it has that shares that 196 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.440 with the sweet autumn clematis. And it's super easy to grow. And I 197 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.000 think so many people struggle with clematis. They have so many questions about clematis, 198 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.240 but sweet autumn. Even though people might have found that it's a little 199 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:22.120 too rimbunctious for them, it remains popular because it is so easy to grow. 200 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:24.799 It doesn't get the diseases that a lot of other clematists get, and 201 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:30.759 it just brings color and interest at a time where there's very little else going 202 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.799 on, especially clematis wise. So again, it's a small flowered variety, 203 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:43.480 and the flowers start out this beautiful kind of cranberry reddish color, and then 204 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.320 as they age they turn violet. And a lot of times what happens when 205 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:52.000 you have these plants that sort of morph their color as they age, you 206 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:56.080 get a multicolored look where you have all of those colors, all those different 207 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:03.080 phases of bloom age at one time, and that really gives it such another 208 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:07.039 dimension of interest, in so much more beauty. So my sweet Summer Love 209 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.679 Clematists is planted up against this fence that my neighbor put up and I had 210 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:16.080 originally planted it to grow through an elderberry that I have planted there, Okay, 211 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.519 and I wanted it too, And I use this a lot. I 212 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:20.000 think clematists are really useful. I think we've talked about it a bit last 213 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.240 time we talked about clematist are on our vine show that clematists can be really 214 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:30.759 useful for kind of growing through something and adding another level of interest. So 215 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:35.720 that's how I originally intended my Sweet Summer Love Clematists to grow. But my 216 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.120 Sweet Summer Love Clematists had different intentions, and it said, no, no, 217 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:43.720 I want to grow over here into the neighbor's yard. Which it still 218 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.360 does what I wanted it to do, but a lot of it is over 219 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.879 on the neighbor's yard, and so I'm on the edge of my seat it. 220 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:52.919 They love it, they do, and I, you know, I 221 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.120 to be a good neighbor. I have often said, you know, hey, 222 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:58.759 does it bother you? And not just about the sweet Summer love, 223 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:00.000 because I have a lot of plants, and they say, do you want 224 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.879 me to prune this? Please feel free to cut this off yourself if it's 225 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.440 bothering you, that kind of thing. But they do love it because they 226 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:08.879 don't have to do anything. I do all the pruning. I do all 227 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:12.639 the fertilizing, watering, and it's right by their dining table, their little 228 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:18.559 outdoor dining table, and so they get all the beautiful flowers with none of 229 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.759 the work. They're lucky, you're spreading the love. It's fantastic. Yes, 230 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.480 So this is a larger vine. So in that way, similar to 231 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.639 sweet autumn as well, so about ten feet tall and wide. And that's 232 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.440 one of the reasons why it's able to grow through my very large elderberry as 233 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.120 well as through their slats and over on to their side. But you can 234 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:40.480 grow it like on a trellis or something smaller if you wanted to keep it 235 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.799 in a garden, or even on like a pergola or something larger if you 236 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:45.559 had more space. How long have you had it, I've had it for 237 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.200 quite some time. I planted it pretty much when we moved in, so 238 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:52.879 about eight years. And I'm glad you asked that, because one thing you 239 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.639 do want to know if this plant is sounding interesting to you as we put 240 00:16:55.639 --> 00:17:00.360 it on trial, it is a plant that's going to need a few years 241 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:04.240 to get established exactly before it starts doing its thing. And one of the 242 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.799 reasons for that, and again we talked about this on our Clematist show. 243 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.759 Clematists have some of the weirdest roots you are going to see on any plant. 244 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:18.440 They are thick and fleshy, they look like rope, and it just 245 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.319 think about the energy it takes to put into those thick, fleshy roots compared 246 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.160 to like a regular fibrous roots system. It really needs that to be well 247 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.720 developed in place before it's able to take off, grow foliage, grow flowers. 248 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:34.160 So yeah, it's in full bore now and has been for many years. 249 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:37.799 But probably you're going to want to give this one three to five years 250 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:42.720 to get established before you can really start expecting it to do its thing. 251 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:45.480 But it's more than worth it. Because it's very long lived. You not 252 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.400 have to worry about it expiring anytime soon. Yeah, I'm glad you brought 253 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:53.559 that up. I think of the mnemonic sleep, creep, and leap. 254 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:57.279 So the first year sleeps, the next year kind of creeps, and then 255 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:02.160 after that it's one of those plants that just leaps. And if you're keeping 256 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:07.400 score at home, we're talking about Sweet Summer Love. Clematis makes me think 257 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.680 of the Summer of Love nineteen sixty seven, San Francisco. I would have 258 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:17.720 been eight years I wasn't there. I would have been eight years old at 259 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:22.039 that time. And think about the song from Scott McKenzie. If you're going 260 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:27.039 to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. Remember 261 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:30.799 that song. I don't remember it, but I know of it. No 262 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.640 of it. No, Okay, So anyhow, there's just a little bit 263 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.799 of music trivia for you. But a greatly named plant because I just love 264 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.839 this plant, right and it is at its peak in summer. Now. 265 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.200 This one does come to us from Sefon Marzinski, who is a Polish breeder 266 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.599 of clematists, and again our Clematist show, we talked about how there is 267 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:53.200 so much breeding of clematist happening in Poland, and so this is one of 268 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.559 his. He named it. So it came to us with that name Sweet 269 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.720 Summer Love, and we just kept it because it's such a descriptive name for 270 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.319 it. And he is the one who really wanted to create this summer interest 271 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:08.480 clematis with color, with the understanding that you know, hey, most of 272 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:14.440 these late blooming clematists they're just they're they're not good garden companions. They're they're 273 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:17.640 too pushy again, they're too rambunctious. So this one is not. It 274 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:19.759 is more restrained. You don't have to worry about it growing overgrowing your entire 275 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.799 yard, and you don't have to worry about its setting seed. And that's 276 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:26.920 a big thing that happens for people who grow regular sweet autumn. But like 277 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:30.160 regular sweet autumn clematis and all clematist This is a plant that's going to want 278 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:36.119 full sun for its vines and shade for its roots. So in my case, 279 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.319 the shade for its roots comes from a combination of mulch and growing under 280 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:44.119 my elderberry plants. But you know you can also do that just through mulch 281 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:47.720 or by planting some other perennials to kind of cover up those feet, which 282 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:52.079 not only looks better but also really really helps the plant quite a bit. 283 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:55.319 This plant is also full proof to prune, which I know is one of 284 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:57.000 the so I was going to say, don't be afraid to prune. Now, 285 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.240 get the pruners out and let's have some right and you will think, 286 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.559 you know, when you're looking at a well established one in spring, like 287 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.519 how can I possibly prune this thing back so hard? Is it going to 288 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.279 grow back? And I can assure you every year it does. So I 289 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.759 cut mine back to about eighteen to twenty four inches above the ground. And 290 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:21.279 the reason that it can regrow to the ten foot proportion once it's established, 291 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:26.000 even after being cut back that far, is because it has that root system 292 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:30.680 to fuel all of that growth and all of those buds that are in the 293 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.640 plant, that are on it. That's where all that growth is going to 294 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.599 come from. So that engine just fuels all the growth, even from those 295 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:41.079 few buds. And so within a matter of weeks in spring, when it 296 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:45.000 starts to grow, it starts to climb and clematis. You may remember, 297 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.279 you don't they need a structure to climb on, but they don't need you 298 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:52.440 to help them along because they have the unique ability for their little pettiole or 299 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.759 stem that connects the leaf to the stem that actually twines around things, so 300 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:00.839 it can twine around itself, it can twine around other plants thin supports like 301 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.400 Little Trouble says, very cool to watch. Yeah, it's really wild, 302 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:08.759 so a very easy to grow plant. I encourage you to visit Gardening Simplified 303 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:12.240 OnAir dot com to see this, to see photos of it, because it 304 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:17.799 really is a very unique plant and one that I hope you will find room 305 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:19.400 for in your garden. We're going to take a little bit of a break. 306 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:22.519 When we come back, we're open en up that gardening mail bag and 307 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:32.640 answering your questions, so please stay tuned at proven winner's color Choice. We've 308 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.720 got a shrub for every taste and every space. Whether you're looking for an 309 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:41.240 easycare rose, an unforgettable hydrangea, or something new and unique, you can 310 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:44.920 be confident that the shrubs and the white containers have been trialed and tested for 311 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:51.200 your success. Look for them at your local garden center. Creating's Gardening friends, 312 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:55.240 and welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show. I know it's the time 313 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:57.559 of year where people are wondering all sorts of things. What's going on with 314 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:02.680 this? Why is it my hydrangea blooming? Which is a question always on 315 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:07.359 everybody's minds. What's going to happen in the next month or two? So 316 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:10.960 I know it's question time. And if you have a question for us, 317 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.480 you can reach us at help HLP at Gardening Simplified OnAir dot com. We 318 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:18.480 do have a lot of questions and I'm trying to get to them. If 319 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:21.759 you have something more urgent, I would encourage you to visit the Proven Winners 320 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:26.000 dot com website. There's a feedback line there and so someone will getting too 321 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:27.960 an answer more quickly. Because we can only do three questions, we only 322 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:30.880 have time to do three questions. I mean, we could probably have a 323 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.599 whole show of questions. But yeah, and you know, I'm thinking, 324 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:37.839 Stacy as you say that gardeners are just like any other type of person in 325 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:41.359 this world. I always say there's three types of people in this world. 326 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:45.319 Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who 327 00:22:45.359 --> 00:22:51.079 wonder what in the world just happens. And those are the people we're trying 328 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:52.920 to help with the men. Yeah, So if you're wondering what in the 329 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.839 world just happened and it's related to gardening, we can't help you with anything 330 00:22:56.839 --> 00:23:00.920 else. Help at Gardening Simplified on air dot com or just visit Gardening Simplified 331 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.680 on air dot com. And with that, what is in the mailbag this 332 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:07.319 week? All right? Jenny wrote to us and says, I have a 333 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:12.440 mature trumpet honeysuckle that has powdery mildew all over the plant. There's also a 334 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:15.920 lot of dead branches in the middle. Should I cut it back close to 335 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:19.680 the ground now? Temps will be in the low mid eighties next week in 336 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.039 Plainfield, Indiana, Plainfield, Indiana. If you suggest treating it, what 337 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:30.480 should I you? Okay? So all great questions, Jenny, and powdery 338 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:33.480 mild is definitely if you have powdery mail do. It is in full swing 339 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:37.839 right now. Summer is it's high time. But the fact is that powdery 340 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:41.480 mildew actually starts in spring and a lot of people don't realize this because the 341 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:45.160 signs of it don't actually make itself known until well into summer. So it 342 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:49.160 didn't just suddenly appear. It's just finally proliferated to the point where you're actually 343 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.039 seeing it appear on your plant. Can you say humidity, yes, right, 344 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:59.319 exactly, humidity me, I'm only humid. You got humidity. And 345 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:03.039 you know the issue in spring when a plant starts to emerge, when the 346 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.799 foliage starts to emerge, that foliage is really really tender. It hasn't developed 347 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:11.240 a protective waxy cuticle, and so it's very very susceptible to all of the 348 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.599 fungus and that kind of thing that's in the air. So most treatments for 349 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:19.920 a powdery mildew are preventative rather than curative. It's a great point. Yeah, 350 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:22.640 it's really important as people see it and then think, oh, well, 351 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:25.839 now I got to do something about it, and you're you're not really 352 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:27.319 going to be able to do all that much about it at this point in 353 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:30.079 the season. So here's my advice to you, Jenny, do not cut 354 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:33.359 it back now. Go ahead and let it, you know, finish its 355 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:37.440 thing, go dormant, and then if you want to in spring you can 356 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.640 cut it all the way back to the ground. It will be fine. 357 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:45.000 Honeysuckles are extremely vigorous. You don't have to worry about harming it. But 358 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.000 at this point, you know it's starting to go dormant, so you really 359 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:52.720 want to give it the chance to translocate all the nutrients that it's making in 360 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:56.279 its leaves store them in its root system. You don't want to just kind 361 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:59.640 of cut that process short just by cutting it back right now. And then 362 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:03.079 a couple couple of things to help minimize powdery mil do in the future. 363 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:07.839 When the foliage drops, try your best. I know this is easier said 364 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:12.240 than done to clean it all up in fall, because that fall and foliage 365 00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:15.000 is where all those powdery meil do and powderymail do is a fungus. By 366 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:18.559 the way, all those powdery mail do spores. They just sit on that 367 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:22.799 foliage waiting for the following spring. If conditions allow, poof, they go 368 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:26.319 right back on to the plant right when those leaves are emerging, and again 369 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:33.680 don't have that protective waxy cuticle. Appropriate sunlight very important part of minimizing powdery 370 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:40.039 mil Do and proper spacing so that the plant can get plenty of air circulation 371 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:45.000 around it, because that will prevent help to dry the leaves. Because powdery 372 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.519 mail Do thrives not in wet conditions, not in dry conditions, but in 373 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:53.880 alternately wet and dry conditions. It loves irrigation systems. You would think that 374 00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:57.799 that powdery mail Do itself may have invented irrigation. You know where it comes 375 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:03.119 on at the same time every day as all day to dry and then blamo, 376 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.720 next day it's it's watering again. Those are perfect conditions for powdery mill 377 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:11.640 Do to develop. Wow, Jenny, you got a poof and I'll blamo 378 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.680 all in one answer. But you know what, I could not have said 379 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:18.599 that better. Stacy, you you nailed it. And Jenny of course talked 380 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:22.559 about those dead branches also, and if you don't get sunlight into the center 381 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:25.880 of the plant, you're going to have some of those dead branches. My 382 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:30.160 only advice would be, don't be afraid to prune hard, but at the 383 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.079 right times, right time, yes, and you know, it's a good 384 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:37.559 idea to wait until you start to see those buds appear on the plant, 385 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.799 and then it's going to be really clear to you what parts are dead so 386 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:45.039 you can remove those completely, and what parts are alive, so you can 387 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.279 cut those back quite hard, but make sure that there's enough for it to 388 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:52.119 grow and recover and hopefully get a new start next year. Sounds great and 389 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.319 writes to us. And let's see if ann can get a poof or a 390 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.279 blammo. We are taught to clean pruners between pruning roses and other plants. 391 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:07.039 What's your method of cleaning pruners between plants went out in the garden. This 392 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:14.279 is a great question. And I believe that the current thinking is lysol lights 393 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:18.000 al disinfectant. Yes, undiluted, that is the current thing. That is 394 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.640 the current thinking. Yep, we could use pine sl I'm sure if you 395 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:23.720 own a pine fresh scent while you're sterilizing your pruners. See, I use 396 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:29.640 a steel brush, the kind that you clean your grill with and vinegar. 397 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:33.240 Oh, and that works for you. I don't know, it's probably just 398 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:36.519 an old thing. I'm a baby bloomer. I'm an old guy. Silver 399 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.640 is definitely good for cleaning them. But if you want to sterilize them, 400 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:41.160 you know, I will be honest. First of all, I do not 401 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.480 sterilize my pruners between cutting different things. No, I'm happy if I find 402 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:51.960 it, I usually lose it. Now that said, if I did have 403 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:55.920 a plant that you know, I knew had some sort of vascular disease that 404 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:59.160 was in the plant, you don't have to worry about like fungal diseases because 405 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:03.720 they're not going to be you know, transmitted on your pruners. But you 406 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:06.839 know what I've I've recommended this for people who want to try to salvage a 407 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:10.680 rose with rose rosette, even though it might not be very useful, or 408 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:15.160 lilacs or another plant that you often might want to sanitize your pruners because they 409 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:18.759 can get some some different diseases. So if I was doing something that I 410 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:21.759 knew had disease, then of course I would. But as a matter of 411 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:25.359 course, I'm not out there with a little bottle of lysol in a in 412 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:29.039 a rag and wiping my pruners in between. But if you want to, 413 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:33.240 more power to you, it certainly couldn't hurt. But lisol is the current 414 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:37.400 thinking on that. Interesting. That's very interesting. I don't like it when 415 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.759 I find my pruning shears with my lawnmower. That's what I don't like with 416 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.200 your lawnmower. Why don't they drive over it? Oh? No, that 417 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.720 would be dangerous. That would be very what you need as a holster. 418 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.599 Yes, put on your Okay, well, okay, you know, I 419 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.440 think you're in good company with other gardeners for having the right equipment but not 420 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.200 necessarily using it exactly do it as I say, not as I do, 421 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:03.759 or something like that. Okay, Michael writes to us, and thanks for 422 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.880 writing to us, Michael, because I want to hear what Stacy has to 423 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:12.720 say on this. I purchased a proven winter pink sonic bloom Waigila marketed as 424 00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:18.160 a continuous rebloomer. I planted at last fall as a small shrub. It 425 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.599 was delivered from vfed X from Proven Winners. It bloom this spring about the 426 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:27.720 same time as my other Waigila shrubs, but has not shown any signs of 427 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:30.960 reblooming. It's putting on a lot of growth, just nod blooms, It 428 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:36.160 gets sun, looks healthy. Was a small plant. Should I expect more 429 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:38.200 blooms in this first full year in the ground. You know, this is 430 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.440 such a good question, Michael, and I also thank you for writing it, 431 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:42.960 because I am hearing from a lot of gardeners right now who are saying, 432 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:47.400 like, this is a new plant and it's not doing what I thought 433 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:48.799 it would do. And it comes back to something you said a little earlier 434 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:52.480 in the show today, and that's that whole sleep creep leap thing. Yeah. 435 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.440 You know, a first plant and its first year in the ground is 436 00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:57.319 going to sleep. It's not going to put on a lot of growth. 437 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.279 You're not going to see a lot happening. Most the action is underground with 438 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.240 the roots. Second year, it's going to creep. It's gotten a little 439 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.799 bit more energy. You're going to see some growth, but certainly not full 440 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.480 performance. And then it's third full season in the ground, that's when it's 441 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:15.839 going to leap. That's when it's going to start moving towards those fabulous pictures 442 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.000 you see on the tags and on the website and all of that performance. 443 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:22.279 And I would say your sonic bloom Wigila is no different. You really have 444 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:23.920 to think about this. So it's great that it bloomed in spring. I'm 445 00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:26.559 really happy about that. But you have to kind of think of it as 446 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.839 an energy budget question. And when a plant is newly planted, it's going 447 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.079 to put most of its energy into roots. A plant can only grow on 448 00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:38.279 top as much as its roots system can support, So until it has a 449 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:41.559 good roots system in place, you're not going to see all that much going 450 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:47.319 on. And the rebloom or the new wood flowers are a pretty big expenditure 451 00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:51.160 of energy, and so you know, as it builds up its ability to 452 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:55.079 even have energy to do that, you're not going to see that until that 453 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:56.799 happens. So it's no surprise that it's not happening now. It's not a 454 00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:00.680 cause for concern. It sounds like you describe. It's healthy. It's in 455 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.799 a good spot for them to really thrive and do well. It just needs 456 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:10.119 a little bit more time. And the key with all reblooming shrubs is as 457 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:14.200 you need to put on as much new growth as possible after it does it's 458 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:17.200 spring bloom. So yours is doing that, that's great, but in the 459 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.160 future you want to make sure that after it has at spring bloom, you 460 00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:22.279 don't just say yeah, forget it. You want to make sure if the 461 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:26.960 weather conditions are rough, you're watering it, you might consider fertilizing it with 462 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.960 like a granular rose fertilizer, encouraging that vigorous new growth. The faster you 463 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:33.920 can get that out, the faster, and we'll put on those buds to 464 00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:37.680 rebloom for you. Plants are a lot like people. If you go to 465 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.279 a party or an event, you just don't jump right into the fray. 466 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:45.400 I mean you kind of stand off to the side a little while, maybe 467 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.519 have a cucumber cilantro martini, and then you'll warm up a little bit and 468 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.079 then and then the party gets stuck right exactly. It's very similar, but 469 00:31:53.839 --> 00:32:00.279 Stas was better. But yeah, there's not a three hours anyway. If 470 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:02.839 you have questions for us, again, help at Gardening Simplified on air dot 471 00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:05.519 com. We've got to take a little bit of a break now, but 472 00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:14.720 when we come back, it's branching news, so plea stay tuned. The 473 00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:17.880 Gardening Simplified Show is brought to you by proven winners. Color Choice Shrubs. 474 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:23.119 Our award winning flowering shrubs and evergreens have been trialed and tested for your success 475 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:28.759 so you enjoy more beauty and less work. Look for proven Winners Color Choice 476 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:35.160 Shrubs in the distinctive white container at your local garden center, coming to you 477 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.759 from Studio A. Here at proven Winners color Choice Shrubs. It's time for 478 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:44.759 branching news and branching news today it's Stacy's birthday. Happy birthday to you. 479 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.799 Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Dear Stacy, Happy birthday to you. 480 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:53.519 And as a special surprise, here on the Gardening Simplified Show, Stacy's 481 00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:57.759 mom, Susan. Great to have you on the show. Thank you, 482 00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:01.400 it's very exciting. You gotta tell me, Susan, Now tell me when 483 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:07.920 did you know that Stacy was going to be a horticultural genius. When did 484 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:12.319 you realize that moment? It was humble beginnings. So we would go to 485 00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:16.319 the grocery store and she was probably four something like that, and she would 486 00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:21.559 get on the floor and get the beans that had fallen out of the dried 487 00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:24.519 beans, yeah, display or whatever. And I told her, if you 488 00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:28.200 put those home and take those home and put them in dirt, they'll grow. 489 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:31.079 And she was all about that, and every week she would do that. 490 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:35.519 Yeah. I was really surprised that it was even a possibility. I 491 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.720 mean, I actually remember the moment very clearly, coming up to her with 492 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.559 it in my hand, and she was like, Oh, that's a bean. 493 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:42.519 If you plan it, we'll turn into a bean plant. And I 494 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:46.680 was like, what is a sorcery? Yeah, I mean I remember it 495 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:50.599 very clearly, and that was like the first thing that I really planted. 496 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:53.519 Wow. You know. My dad was a big time vegetable gardener, and 497 00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.960 he one year when we were little kids, gave us each a plot, 498 00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:01.039 myself and my sister. We grew a few vegetables, planted a few beans, 499 00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:05.400 and one morning I got up and all my plants were laying on their 500 00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:09.119 side, uprooted. I immediately knew it was my sister who had done that. 501 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:14.719 Her curiosity had gotten the best of her, and so I told Dad. 502 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:16.440 And the next day I got a little letter from my sister that said, 503 00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:21.079 dear Rick, I hate you, Love Jane, and still have that 504 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:24.320 letter. So we all have to start somewhere. As Bardner's right, All 505 00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:28.079 right, well, do you want to do branching news with us here while 506 00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:31.079 we celebrate Stacy's birthday? No? I just you so good at it, 507 00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:35.000 though, why should? Well? Thank you very much, thank you very 508 00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:38.320 much. I appreciate that okay, take me to your weeder. A fast 509 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:44.760 growing invasive vine called mile a minute weed has been discovered in Maine for what 510 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:50.440 experts believe is the first time. So this is a barbed weed with triangular 511 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:54.000 leaves, and I guess this thing grows. Let's see the growth rate up 512 00:34:54.000 --> 00:35:00.840 to six inches a day or twenty five feet in six to eight weeks. 513 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:05.679 Wow, weed, my lips. This plant is a problem. Have you 514 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.440 ever heard of this one? I have certainly heard of it. And the 515 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:12.119 thing about it is, you know, and we'll put the article, of 516 00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.840 course on our show notes at Gardening Simplified on air dot com. Is it 517 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.199 such an interesting looking weed that I think most people would see it come up 518 00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.119 in their yard and go, oh, this is kind of cool. I'm 519 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:27.920 going to let this grow. It has really distinctive triangular leaves. If you 520 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.039 see this, so look up a picture of it, so you know to 521 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.760 be on the lookout for it. It's common name. One of the common 522 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.679 names besides my limnute weed is tear a thumb because it has horrible, horrible, 523 00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:40.320 uh you know, spines on it, so if we tried to rip 524 00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:44.559 it out, it will tear your thumb. M Yeah, and I guess 525 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:49.920 it produces a fruiting spike, so birds spread it and it's reached twenty percent 526 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.199 of its potential US range. So like I say, take me to your 527 00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:59.800 weeder this one. Keep your eye open for it mile a minute weed. 528 00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:02.880 Also on the website, we're going to share a survey where sixty one percent 529 00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:09.559 of respondents have actively sought out foods with fewer preservatives or processed ingredients within the 530 00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:15.239 last year. They're reading ingredient labels more closely, buying more natural foods, 531 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:22.679 and prioritizing locally grown foods like planting a garden. But here you go. 532 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:27.519 What matters most when buying food according to this survey, and we'll post it 533 00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:32.280 at our website, Gardening Simplified OnAir dot com. But what matters most Number 534 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:37.039 one how good it tastes, Number two, how healthy it is, number 535 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.039 three, how natural it is? Number four how much does it cost? 536 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:45.519 And number five how long will it take to spoil? Kind of makes sense, 537 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.280 doesn't it. I'm surprised how it looks doesn't play into that though, 538 00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:52.280 because good point. You know, maybe they didn't ask about it. But 539 00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.760 we have an issue in this country where we reject food that doesn't conform to 540 00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:00.960 our standards over how it and I think gardening is a great cure for that 541 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:06.320 because I'll tell you, when you grow a tomato, if it has cat 542 00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:09.239 facing, you know, scarring zippering as you call it, rick, you 543 00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:13.360 better believe you're eating that thing. You're not letting that just go. And 544 00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:17.360 that kind of warms you up for the challenges of growing vegetables, and you're 545 00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:22.920 more likely to then accept less than quote unquote perfect vegetables at the market. 546 00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:28.480 That's a great point. It's all about marketing, all about marketing. Susan, 547 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:31.360 do you have a favorite vegetable you like to eat? We're gonna put 548 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:36.039 you on the spot because whenever we interview someone on the Gardening Simplified Show, 549 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:39.159 I'm first going to ask you if you have a favorite vegetable I do? 550 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:46.400 What is it? Block your ears? Asparagus? Yes? I love that, 551 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:51.360 okay. And the other question we always ask think about this a favorite 552 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:55.320 plant. It's a very unfair question to ask people because, like you've probably 553 00:37:57.159 --> 00:38:00.280 watched and listened to Stacy on the show, she always say, oh, 554 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:05.360 that's my favorite. No, that's my favorite, what's your favorite? It's 555 00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:09.039 first of all, I Stacy did not get any of her knowledge of gardening 556 00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:15.000 from me, but she helped me choose some collias that goes on either side 557 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:17.920 of my garage door that matches my front door, and neighbors stop all the 558 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:22.800 time asking about it. Fantastic and proven winners. Of course, has so 559 00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:25.480 many great varieties of colias, and what I love about colias. When I 560 00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:30.239 first came into the industry many moons ago, it was considered just a shade 561 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:34.320 plant. And now we can grow it in the sun or shade. You 562 00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.960 grow it in containers, yes, and it's almost full shade, full full 563 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:43.360 sun. Yeah, beautiful, fantastic. We'll share a picture, all right. 564 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:49.760 Goats as firefighters. You heard it here first HRD. But again, 565 00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:52.920 if I have to spell it, it's not a good pun. There's nothing 566 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:59.920 that goats won't eat. And in California they're using goats to eat vegetation to 567 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:06.519 try to deal with wildfires. Of course, we've all seen the news this 568 00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:13.159 past week of the tragedy in Hawaii and in California they're trying to reduce wildfire 569 00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:21.039 risk by utilizing goats eating all kinds of dried vegetation, and of course they 570 00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:25.719 can I don't know. There was this company that said their their goats cleared 571 00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:31.400 nearly four hundred thousand acres of land a year. It's amazing what they can 572 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:37.079 eat and how much they can eat. And to get people familiar with using 573 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:42.400 goats to clear vegetation and weeds instead of using chemicals. They get people of 574 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:47.119 the community together and they have what they call a bleat and great, really 575 00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:52.199 a bat and great? Isn't that great? That every day? I thought 576 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:57.800 it was great too. It's fantastic. So I guess if they have mineral 577 00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:02.719 and salt blocks, a large shepherd dog to ward off coyotes, then these 578 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.239 goats are good to eat. Poison, oak and thistle, work under the 579 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:14.400 blazing sun without suffering from heat stress or heat exhaustion. Sow and bears in 580 00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:17.360 the landscape. Who invited the bear? We'll put this story on the website. 581 00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:23.719 Also, Kaylin mccrossey Martinez and Brandon Martinez shared photos from their Boulder County 582 00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:29.760 wedding, which took an unplanned turn when monsoon rains began to fall right after 583 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:34.679 they exchanged vows, so it was pouring rain during the ceremony. All the 584 00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.960 guests were wet, but that wasn't the big surprise. The next surprise came 585 00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:44.119 during the reception when a bear showed up and started eating all of the desserts. 586 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.320 They had a great attitude about it, and so I think, you 587 00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.440 know, this couple's gonna do just fine. They did really well with the 588 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.039 whole thing. But talk about a fun story, and we're gonna put the 589 00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.760 We're gonna put the story there on our website. They did not put the 590 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:06.840 festivities on paws. They and they didn't lose their bearings. They just plowed 591 00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.880 through it. You know, all of our bear related branching news is them 592 00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:15.639 eating sweets. They're breaking into bakerries, ice cream shots. They're never like 593 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:19.119 going to the grocery store and eating you know, broccoli or anything like that. 594 00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.000 And that's my whole point, Stacy, bears, You know, I'm 595 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:27.679 good with bears. Deer are the ones that are eating my plants. And 596 00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:31.920 usually you think of bears eating from the bird feeder, but you're right, 597 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:38.039 they're always after cookies and cupcakes and that type of thing. So sweet tooth. 598 00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:43.480 You're going out for dinner with Stacy for birthday? Yes, excellent, 599 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:47.719 excellent? What kind of food do you like? Wow? I like I 600 00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.679 like a lot of things. Good food, good food. Yes, all 601 00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:58.360 right, bears. Then I'll make sure to share this survey. We'll be 602 00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.719 good to go. It's been great me you, Susan, and happy birthday. 603 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:04.800 Thank you Erick, I appreciate that. Thanks for joining us this week 604 00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:08.559 on the Gardening Simplified Show. Look for us on YouTube, radio, podcast, 605 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:12.960 and thank you very mulch for your support. Have a great week.