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Yeah, it's been done anyway. Golly, it's a bit of a hot
time of the year, a little and a little well hopefully a little time.
Looks like that for the rain. Maybe we'll get some at ad misery,
we got about sixteen drops. You're at the radio station. Maybe your
very bad. That's about what it's going to be. Wonderful for the afternoon.
A little muggy business. Yeah, we've got something. Yeah, it
looked like it might come down pretty good here a little bit. Anyway,
we have some trees were planting today, so they're kind of busy doing that.
So we're so busy. Yeah, you watch out for the heat when
you're out there working in the garden too. You really, you really have
to watch out for the plants. They can handle it. Okay, yeah,
yeah, the trees, all the trees look fine. They do lot.
The big trees look really good in this town because all the rain we
had in the string, they stored all that up and they had bigger roots
to spread out everywhere. So so as far as the big trees are concerned,
I wouldn't worry about them too much. They seem to be doing just
fine. I don't see the defoliation that typically was associated with some trees from
two years ago. Oh yeah it was. Last year was really really hot
too, but it was so hot and dry we just about ran out of
water. So I looked on your web page. You have links all over
the the corp of Engineers, and we're doing We're doing pretty well right now.
So anyway, most trees to stop growing for the year. How can
I tell you? Look at the very tip of the brunches. Yeah,
the buds are kind of hardened off a little bit. With the exception those
trees that are going to bloom in the spring. The dog with for instance,
for instance, right now, are just beginning to set bloom for next
spring. So that's pretty cool. And so don't you don't want to cut
back your dog with right now? Okay? And it uh anyway, look
a look at the tips. If there's a lot of new small leaves,
it's still growing. But I rather doubt at this point in time that the
trees are going to be growing any at all. We don't seem to be
having much of a problem with tin caterpillars this year. Well, co on
the pecans first, and and I don't know what tree it was. It's
in the neighborhood. It's a little waist back back and spot it from my
yeah, livingroom window, it looks like an early Halloween decoration. Yea.
Yeah. So anyway, I expect that will probably be a little bit later,
maybe the tent caterpillars, and they're pretty easy to control. You can
use some BT if you have to see them. BT is a Basili's thorniness
is otherwise known as a thirside, and it's particularly toxic to the insects in
the caterpillar stage. So with that in mind, you want to be careful
not to apply it to those caterpillars that have those lateral stripes around them black
and yellow and white stripe fills are monarch but a ply, so be very
careful. And if there's a monarch butterfly larva eating your plant, go ahead
and let it the plant. That plant grow we leaves, but you won't
grow another another butterfly. So anyway, so with that in mind, it's
a bit late to cut back your dog with trees if you do want to
cut them back, and most people already don't. They just sort of grow
and they sort of let them do what they want. But it's a bit
late for that. Also at the azaleas, it's kind of late to cut
those back also because they're setting their blooms. Also, the fall blooming azaleas
are setting their blooms for the fall, and the spring ones are setting in
the blooms for the spring. Show them flowers too, so so kind of
leave those things alone. The lilac bush is the same thing. Don't cut
them back right now because they're setting their blooms. And people say, why
do my lilacs never bloom? I said, when do you prune them?
I said, well, late summer. Well that's why. God, there
you go. They need to be true. They need to be prune directly
after they bloom in the spring. So as far as fertilization is concerned,
you don't want to spur on a whole lot of rapid growth on your on
your plants right now because of the available resources of water and the excessive heat.
So you'll just kind of let them stay a little bit on the drive
sad, but not to the point where they're really really driving. You don't
want them really wet. We do have a bit of a heavy soil here,
and it does tend to make the roots sort of wrought out from excessive
moisture all the time. So you want a driving period maybe twice a week
watering. I go up and down the road and see the same house watering
every day at the same time, and the water pressure is really high apparently
in some parts of town, and you see these sprinklers going and it's just
shooting this water out and very small proportion of it actually hits the ground.
It's hitting the road, hitting the driveway in which is evaporating into the atmosphere.
So look at your sprinkler system. If there's a lot of mists coming
off of the sprinkler heads, go to the backflopea ventor or the main connection
and maybe rottle it down a little bit, just so you don't waste easily
thirty percent of your water, yeah, into the air. Yeah, it
makes a muggy for the rest of them. Well, what that does is
it makes it rain down in Arkansas like they needed. So you want to
go ahead and monitor your I was we were doing a job for somebody.
We turn on the sprinker system and it's like a bunch of aerosol cans.
It's just just insane. So it's all part of the design of the sprinker
system too, So keep that in mind. Also the nozzle diameter and bounce
permitted in PSI and all that other stuff. Oh, here he goes with
the math. You gotta do all that to figure it out, to do
the math in order to get it right. But probably one of the most
important things on irrigations is a pipeline velocity. That's a very bad of the
water coming through the pipe and the electric valves and how much stress they can
handle. Bam, if they slam shut, you have too much velocity going
into the pipe. Yeah, and you know the pipes a rattle in the
house turn off. You need to cut that down just a little bit.
So really people, I guess I look at the sprinkler systems as sort of
like the electrical wiring in their house. You just want to set it and
forget it, forget it. It's not that easy, not at all.
So you want to monitor that and turn on your sprinkler system and make sure
that the heads are pointed the right way. Driving along and I got a
free car wash from that was misdirected. Wow, it's like surprise, there
you go. So probably with water, it's expensive as it is. Right
now, you want to you want to monitor it and use it wisely and
try not to put too much of it out in the atmosphere, and then
make sure the sprinkter heads are pumped in the right way. That's very important,
is key phone, you a wasted twenty five percent of water right there,
and then you get some these leaks that you have over there. Also
you want to repair broken pipes and things, and that all comes down to
the to the design of the system too and how they're connected and everything else.
Now, so the ones you guys have designed have been going strong for
twenty five years, I know, longer than that. Even Yeah, we
were working across the street from a project we did thirty years ago, and
the sprinkers came on and they were just watering just fine, and it wasn't
all this myst coming out every way everywhere. So do it right the first
time, you got to pay it. So yeah, even when I was
younger, thirty years ago, I knew how to design these things. But
anyway, so you just wanted to watch it and run it occasionally and walk
around and follow the circuits. A lot of these said newer timers have a
test chirking on them. Try and you let it go for one minute and
walk all the way around and follow it. And then you might get some
utility flags or or a rock or anything to put next to the sprinkerhead that's
got a problem. Then either replace it or maybe adjust it or something.
And on the sprinker system, we try to make an effort to teach people
how to adjust the sprinker heads. And there's so many people that when the
sprinker system's done, the contractor just kind of walks away and they don't know
how to run their timers, they don't know how to winter rise it,
they don't know how to adjust the sprinkler heads. So wow, they're kind
of left high and dry well. Yeah, so you need to know all
this stuff. It's because it's basically very simple. Adjusting a sprinkle head is
very simple, and even replacing them is like replacing a light bulb, so
really quite simple. So the customer needs to know that, and they also
need to know how to program a timer, and the installer needs to make
note of the type of soil you have and the absorption rate and the slope
and all that other stuff and program it accordingly. So, for instance,
if you have a real steep slope, you want to use a sprinkler head
that maybe a rainbird one point five nozzle. They just tribute water fairly slowly,
just so just run down the hill wasted. Yeah. Yeah, so
you have to consider the absorption rate of the soil and also the runoff rate
based on the slope too when when calculating a say a sprinkler system on the
hill, just so it doesn't run down, go down the curb and make
all the turtles happy in the river. So, just just like wire in
your house or even building a computer and stuff like that, there are just
some common sense things you need to follow in order to make it succeed without
wasting money. That's really sprinkter systems. Make sure they're engineered, and you
should have a diet. I'm showing where the pipes are and all of this
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you to talk to our expert, Larry Glass. He is one eight hundred
and seven four nine five nine three six Lauri WIT's neck. We were talking
about cutting back stuff. Yeah, and it's a bit too late to cut
back your jailious. I've done before in July and the work I did it
for a customer. It's a long time ago downtown. Yeah, you say
so, Larry, They're just too big. Can you cut them back?
Okay, I'll cut them back properly. There's no problem. She went and
said, okay, have that. A turk av chi came outside and she
goes, oh my gosh, what did you do? You said, worry
not, worry not. And then uh, in March we got a call
and said, oh they blooms so beautifully. That's so funny. You're welcome.
I've done that was in Yop on the Hollys too. But it's too
late to cut them back. You might kill it if you cut them back
at this point, you need to do that in the spring. And then
we did one two years ago and it turned it into a dear antler.
Yes, she came out and looked at me. Look at that, she
wrote, You know the check how might shallow? You walked in the house,
and right now is it's small again and beautiful and just fine. So
the timing of pruning is very important. Oh yeah, that's a kind of
the point I'm making right now, is uh. And if it blooms in
the spring, you don't want to cut it back. Your sorcer magnolias and
you know, spring blooming hydrangs and things like that, you really want to
kind refrain from coming back at this time. Okay, we talked about coming
back earlier, right after the boom in the year, but right now it's
the absolute cutoff time. You can you can cut it back, but they
really won't produce very many flowers because the days are getting shorter, and it
causes a change in the in the way the tissues and the adventitious tissues differentiate
between blooms and leaves. And so right now that's what's happening. I go
to people's house, I went to somebody's house yesterday and their dogwood that they
don't cut it back because and I showed her with a tiny boom to starting
to form on the tips, and I said, oh my goodness. Yeah,
because of our spring we had with the rain. I said, it's
going to be a good year for dogwoods. Next year they're going to boom.
Right this year, this year was a very good year too, But
this next year I think it's going to be a really stellar year for the
dogwood booms. So anyway, also still trying to plant okra in the garden.
You can still get a crop of okra in and maybe some beans in
the garden. To cut off the suckers on tomatoes and plant them in the
mud if you want more tomatoes. I don't ever cut the suckers off of
mine. They just grow. And I've got these big, massive vegetation.
Yeah, you got pumpkin size tomatoes. No tomatoes, but you got a
lot of education. I'm never home, I never see them, so maybe
tomorrow I'll take them up. They got one growing up on an ornamental windmill,
and they well, that's interesting, especially when the wind blows about pruning.
Yeah, that's so I got to take them up. Usually use a
little t shirt and cut it into strips, and that makes it really good
because it stretches when they grow. But anyway, so that they need to
be cut back a little bit too, thind out somewhat. Fertilizer. You
bring me your grass. If you have to meets the water, I'd like
to use maybe a sixteen percent nitrogen ferti lightser at this point, or if
you use a thirty percent. Not you didn't just throttle back a little bit
on the amount to put on there, so it's kind of time to do
that last application for a Jelli fertilizer at this point. Typically Zealius you bloom,
and right after the bloom a month later than a month later this March
April than May, and June would be the last one. But it's not.
June is July. It's two weeks away from June, so if you
missed the boat, sorry. The values are particularly sensitive to being fertilized,
especially when it's hot like this, so when you fertilize, you want to
water them really heavily before you fertilize them, and then sprinkle of fertilizer not
at the trunks, but generally in the in the area around them. So
a general application of fertilizer, you can just kind of throw it out there
a little bit and then water it again because the surface roots of the zelli
is are very shallow and they can burn very easily from being fertilized. And
follow the directions on the on the container very implicitly, especially right now when
it's hot on your azalea fertilizations, because too much can you just when this
heat can just burn them up. So it is really the latest time for
the for the last small fertilization of your zalees. So make sure also that
they're molds real will. I do like to use the cedar molts. It
does help sort of keep the bugs away because they don't like that cedar.
It looks nice, and it helps moderate the peaks and valleys of moisture in
the ground. Gotcha. By making more consistent moisture, they do a lot
better. We have some people their zealis are absolutely just stellar, just beautiful
plants, and some people that are just kind of and typically the ones that
liquoral batter are not really multi real Will, So it's important to do that.
Uh Is, Oklahoma is probably one of the last places you expected ice
to grow naturally. Yeah, because because of our type and are rather abrupt
changes in seasons here, so we have to moderate that somewhat and we follow
through with some mulch and some watering. It's a little bit of fertilizer.
And they do find they had that very well. There's a house we did
in Woodland Park. They have the circular bed by the driveway. Planet As
days there in nineteen ninety eight. Yeah, you're still there, so,
yeah, they just followed the guideline. We did a sprinker system for them
all, so it kind of taught them how to run it and all that
and stuff just looks great. It's almost like set it and forget it.
But really you're taught. Well, you get into a routine and you know,
you kind of know what to do after a while. Yeah, so
yeah, and then it's like a no brainer. Okay. Anyway, at
the nursery, we have container and B and B trees. It can be
planted at anytime. We're planting trees right now as we speak. You are,
that's right, you were telling me about that. Yeah, and just
don't try to move them. Hostas are blooming right now. The encorez Alias
are opening up a little bit. The encore Zalia, it's a different type
of vizalia. They bloom in the spring and then again pretty much consistently in
the fall. But when the weather changes here in the summer, in other
words, it can be three or four thousand degrees one day, the next
day it's you know, two hundred below zero. That not just being perceived
anyway warm. If it cools down after a long warm fill' that'll spur them
onto bloom a little bit. So you'll have a few flowers popping off when
the weather shifts in the in the summertime, and then in the fall they
put on a really really good show too. We did have a good show
a last fall with the encore zalius. But they can be a little bit
picky when it comes to winter. So you want to make double duty sure
that they're really well watered and well moltched going into the winter for them to
do well. Okay, So, because it comes down to hardininess and over
here we're at the very very tip top of the hard inness area for uncoors
and we have to compensate for that by putting some extra mulch and keeping them
pretty well watered into the winter. It's all about taking it business. It
might be kind of difficult when your garden hose fits on ice cubes, and
it's been known to do that, but it's not like that every day here
in the window. No, no, we gets real cold for about six
weeks and then yeah, my daughter was born in December. Yeah, and
Grandma made all of these little knitted things to wear to take home. It
was seventy five degrees, you know, with the with the ice, with
people to do the artificial ice every now and then for their communities. Yeah.
Yeah, sometimes right around Christmas we get a little surprised, like it's
seventy one, and then it's not untill I right after New Year's does it
like all of a sudden you get really cold, Yeah, for about you
know, a couple of weeks, and then back then good stuff. Yeah,
Kevin opens the front door and it cools down the whole city. Yeah,
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Yeah, people will say, well, how can I prevent weeds in
my garden? Real? Well, how can I? There's several methods.
One to just get a lawn share require Another one is a very heavy layer
mults. That's a pretty good job. And you got multi by the ton
and exactly by the truckload you met. And another one is pre merchant oversides.
Oh here you go. A pre emergent overside really doesn't prevent the weed
seed from germany, or doesn't kill the seed for that matter, just checked
instead there was system. Development of a young seedling is somewhat limited by the
action of the pre emergent overside, killing it before it quote emerges in quote
it. It still grows and comes up, but it stops for development.
Typically, it's how a pre emergent overside works, so it will if applied
before germination. However, the pre emergent will control the seedlings of annuals or
perennial weeds, and some seeds are known to the last you know, fifty
years in the ground before they sprout. So yeah, that's that's the weirdest
thing. I did not know that when I moved into my house, but
twenty some years ago. There are some hollyhawks growing on the north side over
here, and it'd come up in the middle of the yard. I just
move around them. And then in the last five years none of them have
showed up. But this year one of them came up. So I'm mowing
around this hollyhowk plant. I hope the next to our neighbor doesn't cut it
down with her. We take it to a weed anyway, I said,
they're back, yeah, anyway. So pre emergence work to control that,
keep that from happening, and they control the ceilings of annual imprenial weeds and
some of these are known in the last fifty years or so. The herb
side. If it isn't applied each year, that sea will eventually grow.
So it's kind of an ongoing battle between you and the weeds, really,
and I've done a lot to control the mulberry weed this year with pre emergent
herbside. It just a thing that just went through my yard like a plague.
It's this plant that comes up and even when it's this tall, that
developed seed just like two days after it sprouts starts making seeds, and then
the seeds. What they do is that the seed pot drives up into pups
and seeds spread out all so you've got one plant coming up shoots out,
you get ten plants each one of those shoots out and it just works exponentially.
Like the mobery weed is a plant that that leaves is somewhat scallop on.
It reminds of a kind of a moboid plant. It's a genus is
Fatua and it's from Japan and it when it gets to your garden, when
you let it get in there, it just takes over everywhere. Control is
crazily done with a good layer of molds or using the periodically use a pre
merchant overside so you can control them with the management, or you can just
do like I who pull them up again before they get rooty good. The
biggest question about the pre emergent weed killers is basically when to apply them.
Pre Emergent orb sized only work if they're applied to your lawn garden prior to
the weeds coming up. So if you have a weed problem, you put
this on there and you say it didn't work, well, it's because you
need to understand the mechanism it works, and basically the mechanism is to stop
the development when they first come up. It will not kill an existing plant
well pre emergency do not. They work before that happens. So typically you
put them in the March for the spring about the middle of March or craybrass
and so on. In September for the inbit and the uh uh, the
winter weed, chick weed, chickweed in union there's too big the top two
weeds in the yard, the weeds, So it's kind of timing is very
important on that you sort of be ahead of the game and typically as time
goes on. We discussed when is the time to do that on the show
here, and there are several kinds, different varieties, different names of these
pre murgers. All the mechanism is pretty similar and some of them are really
really strong. You better be careful how you how much you put on there.
Too much can really cause a sterilization of the soil problem. So you
would be very careful about the proportion. And then know your surface area of
your lawn. That's pretty easy to measure link times with it's your surface area,
how much the lawn area you have. And then what I'd like to
do is say I have a ten thousand square feet and I put the amount
of herbicide necessary for ten thousand square feet and then dilute it and then spray
it on the yard and until that dilution is used up, and that does
a pretty good job. Just like that, Yeah, exactly, And about
three months or so is a lifespan of a typical pre emergence, so you
might have to reapply, especially with panegraphs that yeah, oh, I've got
some draggrass out a size of that are golly, they're the size of a
dawn redwood trees. Goodness anyway, So pre emergent herbicide is another way to
help control weeds in the lawn and in the landscape. But you have to
be very careful not to over apply because that can cause some damage to your
plants. Okay, indeed, all right, let's take a quick break.
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Jane Phillips and Bartlesville and welcome back to the Green Country Gardener Program.
It is eight forty one seventy seven degrees. It may or may not be
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And right now, our toll free number is the one eight hundred and
seven four three six. Our Green Country Gardener expert is Larry Glass. What
do you have for us? Oh? Yeah, looking at the red eye
here, it's just dying. Just support gets to gets to town. These
dude grew real good up in Kansas. It hit Oklahoma, then it hits
a Wasshington County and fizzle fizzle down. Well, we can at least water
to buy the water. We got a small mist here, then the rest
missed and may get make it real miserable this afternoon. Anyway, Let's talk
a little bit about the love lolly pine. Let's do that a little love
all. I was a kid in Georgia. We had them all over the
place. Yeah, they're probably the whole place is covered in lava. And
we had it so big you can reach around them hardly, big old nice
trees. Huge thing. You can build an entire house with one tree in
the backyard. Oh, they get about six thousand feet tall. They're pretty
much No, they're not that big, but they get pretty good size.
It's one of the fastest growing of the southern pine. This lobbally pine is
used as a quick screen and many landscapes. We planted somewhere around town and
thee to do pretty well here. The North American native has dark green needles
and a narrow red brown, often two cones together on it in the north
and three to six inches long or so Anyway, it grows in a wide
variety of soils, and it's draught tolerant. Nice. So that's why it
does well here probably. Okay, it gets sixty to one hundred feet,
Well that's just that's a lot of lobbying. But not here with a twenty
five or thirty five foot spread. But not here. I'm afraid climate's a
little too extreme for them to get that tall. We have a whole lot
of wind and they want they start bending a little bit. They're all tilted
to the to the south northeast. Yeah, I got a nice bush that
did that. Yeah, it kind of looks like a blongs and a Popeye
movie, you know. So, because because of its soil tolerance is probably
the reason why they do pretty well here, because you can go from one
place where the soil is really good and a block away it's just terrible.
We have so many variations in our in our soil type and depth over in
this town. That is, if you don't really know what what what the
soil is like, it is difficult to do with landscape design because of the
soil variations. So anyway, it grows in the wide rides soiler, and
I guess twenty five or th zone six to nine were our zone six point
five, So we're trying to be at the northern limit of it, really
so. But it does pretty well here despite that. Uh. It grows
in acid soils, loamly soils, most soil, sandy soils, well drained
and even play soils. While they prefers normal moisture, this tree can tolerate
some flooding and moderate drought. They say moderate, you know. And it
transplants pretty easily. Kid, it's a very highly developer system. We planted
some yeah love olivines at various parts in town. They seem to be succeeding
quite well except when the deer rudther antlers on them got that yeah so at
the needles are six to ten inches long and they produce a very dry oval
brown cones that are three to six inches in linked good Christmas decorations on the
reads. And he used the pine cones for that. I guess we used
to throw them in the fireplace we were kids. So it's a pretty good
plant to do it. The lower branches on the law bolipine just kind of
die off as it gets older, so as as it grows up, you
can anticipate in not having that lower level of screening that is providing, because
it will drop all of them as it grows up and just sort of die
off. So for the long term it's a good screen for sayway off in
something way off in the distance, but up close close to the ground,
you might consider a planting of maybe some medium sized hullys or something around it
too, to compensate for that lack of lower branches as it grows older.
Got it. So other than that, it makes a pretty good planet.
That's pretty well here and craip myrtle is our start of the week. Finally,
the crpe myrtles are coming out. It took them a long time to
go ahead and differentiate into flowers, and when they did it, they did
it real quick. That little rainstorm we had not too long ago that actually
made it here in town helped them a whole lot. Cratemurtles are very well
suited for the heat, as we well know. The only thing they don't
tolerate to here is our occasional cold winter, and that's been a bit of
a problem for the last two winters. So to circumvent a significant amount of
damage to crape myrtles, number one you want to look for crepe myrtle scale.
Yeah. Yeah, the crate myrtle scale is an insect that attaches itself
to the stem and draws the sap out of the plant. And it's very
easy to spot on your crp myrtles by the blackening of the stems because the
byproduct of their drawing the juices out of the plant is a sugar re substance
that also draws ants, which carry the eggs incorporated into that sugar resubstance to
different areas. It's kind of a sembiosis because of scale. The scale insect
itself, once it's attached, it's not mobile, no, it stays there,
yeah, and it is actually relying on them the ants to carry their
their eggs around to other places. And the eggs typically come up in the
ground and a little crater crawls up the stem that attaches itself. There it
go and just kind of sit there, just kind of happy as a clam
and there. I have seen some crape myrtles that are just about completely decimated
from these scale insects, so you want to be conscious of that. And
they're kind of easy to see. You look at the stem itself and their
little brownish colored attachments onto the stem. They're sort of roundish if you will.
Crape myrtles typically have vertical a striations in there in their bark, and
this kind of breaks that and then you'll be able to see it that way.
And also, like I said, the mold, the city mold on
them does a giveaway that they do have some scale. And also the leaves
will exhibit some city mobile them too, and you'll be you'll have diminished bigger
in the plant and diminished blooms on it. Also, So how do you
get rid of scale insight? How do we do that? Captain Jack's dead
bug is one. It's my favorite. It's uh it's spin is add and
also amid a culprid systemic insecticide worked very well. It takes time for the
systemic insecticide to get into the plant for it to work. So if you're
at a point now where you have a lot of credite morble scale, you
might consider using a twofold approach with the systemic as well as the c J
D dB. Yeah, cab Jacks dead than guys. Cap Jack's also good
for a good variety of insects that are in the tree. The back of
the name that good. It's got to be got to be good. And
this is such organic it is, Yes, it is. Well we've mentioned
it before, but it was found in a sugar factory to Rica. I
thought I thought at first it was a rum factory, but it turned out
it was actually sugar. You hear all different stories. But anyway, and
it's it's quite effective. I've used it in my yard for several things.
That's why I had a bumper crop of plumbs this year. Nothing pre ate
them, nothing ate them up. Yeah. So and it's uh, and
it really works kind of across the board as far as controlling insect life is
concerned, be very careful mind your your your plants. That of course at
the monarch butterplace are attracted to. Try not to use two insective sites around
that. At this point in time that monarchs are forming their caterpillars and their
crystal I are forming and all that in the grill and turn into him a
butterfly. Ye, beautiful butterf So you want to be conscious of that.
And before you spray for worms and caterpillars and stuff on your plants, you
want to look at at your target piss first, and if you do have
some monarch larvae on there, you want to be careful not to spray,
then don't do that. Okay, all right, let's take a quick break
and we will be back after this. Let's see three and a half minute
time out. Frank Phillips, the old man with barred wire nerves and the
courage of a wolf, didn't realize his own capacity to love until after the
death of his dear wife Jane in nineteen forty eight. He no longer heard
her laughter in the mansion in town, nor enjoyed the long drives out to
his beloved wool Rock where they would often go to share an evening dinner.
After her death, he found himself waking to the cold reality of her absence,
and confided to others that his soul ached. More and more of Frank's
time was being spent at the ranch, sitting on the front porch of the
lodge and enjoying the magnificent view and likely reflecting back on an incredible life of
personal and professional accomplishments. However, without his wife in the chair next to
him, these simple joys became shallow to Uncle Frank. After her death,
those around Frank soon discovered that he had one desire, and that was to
build a masolem at Woollarock to serve as a final resting place for Jane and
himself. He had picked out the spot years before, a favorite spot that
overlooked one of the beautiful lakes that dotted the grounds of the ranch. Inspired
by the memorial built for his good friend Will Rogers and Claremore, the mausolem
soon became the primary focus of Frank's life. Once construction started on the mausolem
in nineteen forty nine, he personally came out every day to see how work
was progressing. Frank wanted it within walking distance of the lodge, yet not
directly in the public eye, which is why he chose the site above Elk
Lake, one of his favorite fishing holes at Willarock. Built of native stone
with no cut edges, the tomb appeared to spring from the side of the
hill as if it was part of the terrain. Workmen blasted through eighteen feet
of solid rock to form the burial chamber, and the twenty four square foot
room was lined with a twelve inch steel reinforced concrete wall. The chamber was
air conditioned and a telephone was installed. Inside the mausolem is a circular rotunda
outlined by eight columns of Saint Cecilia marble imported from Italy, which rises ten
feet to a dome. The walls are covered with thousands of mosaic tiles,
and in the center of the room is an eight pointed star formed by the
different shades of marble. Construction took about a year, and as soon as
it was completed, Frank had Jane's casket brought from White Rose Cemetery and a
memorial service was held at the new mausolem. To his friends and staff,
Mister Phillips seemed happier than at any time in recent years. His final work
was completed and he could return to the porch of the lodge, which he
did until his death on August twenty third, nineteen fifty. The magic of
Wollarock is a story worth sharing, and it can be found everywhere at this
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point three and ninety five point one f All right, good morning, Welcome
back to the Green Country Gardener Program. It's eight fifty five seventy seven degrees
may or may not be drizzling where you are right now. It is seventy
seven and a little bit of sun trying to peek through where we are,
and we have our toll pre number open here as the Green Country Gardener Program
one eight hundred and seven four nine five nine three six. Lori Glass is
our expert. What do we have next, Larry. Our perennial this week
is a comb flower. Okay. Comb flower is a very robust, drop
tolerant perennial native actually right here. It prefers a fertile, well drained soil.
What doesn't really and falls apart sun. It tends to spread out,
so give up lots of room. Color can't be beat in the hot summer
sun. It's a good plant to have around for the hot summer. And
we do sell a lot of cone flowers at the nursery, a whole bunch
of them, and in several varieties too. They're not all just old purple
ones anymore. You've got white and pink and purple and orange and mango and
so on, all these different colors that are available right now. Used to
have one ketchup and mustard. Well listen, I don't know if we can't
get them anymore, but it was a yellow and a red one. So
con flower is one you can have in the garden and give it lots of
room in the garden too. Theyre does like a lot of open open space.
So even if you have something, say in the backward by the fence
or something in the backyard, you might consider planting some cone flowers in there
because they're very care free plants. They do, however, head a tendency
to kind of spread and grow and become a very dominant species. You can
use that to your advantage by transplanting them here and there in the garden too,
or to get them away air just just kind of thin them out if
you want to. Also, but they're a very plant, is very well
suited for a climate here. The fertilization is minimal, watering is minimal,
and then too you don't want to water them too much because they tend to
ride if you wanted them too much. Okay, So, and as far
as hardiness, the trade is carried through all the different colors, there about
the same level hardiness on the on the cone flowers. It's a good plant
to have. And then annual would be the lantanna annual Lantana. Butterflies love
this as well as the cone flowers. Oh really yeah so, and really
to do an effective butterfly guarden, it has to be about as big as
this room, which isn't really that big. No, I just gotta say,
you know, you're not out much. It's it's what ten by two
four six, ten by twelve feet that's about not the size of one.
It has to be fairly good sized because butterflies they just kind of go with
the wind and they won't specifically go to your yard to find a butterfly garden.
They just kind of wandering over look at their Yeah, they have a
special eyesight that practically predictlar flowers, I guess, and they'll go in and
find it. So it's just kind of a rambling thing, if you will.
But anyway, it's good. But we do need to help the monarch
butterfly populations and having a butterfly garden gives them some sustenance. And not only
that, but you do want to have flowers at the larva can feed on,
and that's the milkweed. We sell just tons and tons of milkweed plants,
So you want to associate your butterfly gardens with some milk weed as well,
so the larvacon have something to eat. And also you need to educate
yourself on the different stages and the appearance of the different stages of the monarch
butterfly you mistakenly do some harm stray one that you if you thought was something
else. And we had one lady came in. She brought in a picture
of a I've got all these these worms like these evening plants, and with
those are monarch butterflies, and she started crying, she's so upset with herself.
We're springing them. So you really need to kind of need to know
what they look like. And you can find that information online all over the
place, So it's pretty easy to find information on monarch butterflies and what they
look like. But anyway, or we can show you at the nursery because
you've got a little butterfly garden there we do. We have this little cage.
Occasionally we'll have some larvae we'll find and put the milk. They eat
up the plants and they grow and develop in this monarch and this butterfly thing
we have. Anyway, so any come by the nursery and check it out.
We've got a whole kinds of stuff. Plants for your butterflies, plants
for your honeybirds, plants that tolerate the heat and the cold, and stuff
that grows in the shade in the sun, all kinds of Japanese maples,
beautiful plants right now and really nice in the spring when they come out,
and ELFs and dog with trees and everything else. So been a good show,
Tom, keep that shovel sharp. We will see you next week.
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